After about 5 hours of work I have somewhat of an engine done. I got my sprites, sprite sheets, tiles, tile maps, ticks, renders, all that fun stuff under control.

The idea of the game is fairly simple and is based around controlling a colony of ants. You start off with a group of couple of ants and your goal is to breed and feed them to grow and expand the nest. I plan on doing random events like a human trying to destroy it (so you need to hide the queen deep), resources underground, random predator attacks and whatever else I have the time for.

Currently I’m going to bad with the thought of waking up in 4 hours to take a practice AP Chem exam (people living in US know how much pain that is …).

Anyways, here’s my really short time elapse of tonight: