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A jam submission

Ant ColonyView game page

A simple economy sim game. Will be expanded upon later!
Submitted by Technic235 — 50 minutes, 30 seconds before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Innovation#2812.8752.875
Game Design#3132.9582.958
Graphics#3142.9172.917
Fun#3652.6672.667
Overall#4062.5562.556
Theme#4192.6252.625
Audio#6491.2921.292

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted

I like the attempt, but I found this very slow, confusing, and boring.  A lot of this just felt like sitting there and not doing much.  The ideas aren't explained very well, so I felt stuck as to what I should be doing.  The lack of any audio doesn't help either.

Submitted

Interesting game about ant colony management, kinda like AntSim?

Audio would be nice, dead silence never helps with game experience.

Also some controls or UI feedback would help (I didn't even know I could move the camera until I was close to the end of the game)

But this is very good effort for a 1 week Jam game, programming these must be quite challenging. (Multi-agent systems are my favorite!)

All in all, good work on your first game, hope you good luck on future expansion of this game.

Submitted

Nice idea unfortunetly I don't know how works soldier and workers.

Trere was no chance to use is.

Developer

soldiers and workers don't do anything right now due to how rushed I was.

Submitted

needs sound and a tutorial!

Submitted

Game is complicated in the beginning. I like its like running your own ant empire in a garden. You could add some sounds.

What I would love for the game is (game have lot of potential)

- Sounds

- Variety of ants (Visual differences)

-Variety of resources

-Some initial tutorials


Nice job on the game for the Jam.

Submitted

fun little game! with a little bit of work this game can turn out being a hit! 

Submitted

Really nice one.  Was complicated without reading the tutorial :D

Rated! please rate us back :)

This is a nice game. It's amusing to watch the little ants running around. 

Submitted

the game seemed rather complicated at first, but was nicely running and pretty fun to play. Would need some audio to the mix.

Submitted

Nice game with lovely art work. I think if there was a nice game music it would make your game much more interesting than itis.  You did a good job there.

Submitted

Game was easy but I enjoyed playing it, Good job!

Submitted

Rare simulation game concept. It would be interesting to see further development.

Submitted

Looks very complicated, and it works, but I don't think many people will have patience for this type of simulator ish game, but great job on the concept.

Submitted

nice game!! I think adding some sound could be better!

Developer(+1)

I agree! I definitely need to develop some more skills so I can make that happen :)

Submitted

Love the game. 

Developer

Thank you. I actually played your game again after leaving my comment. It was even more fun since I knew what I was doing the second time.

Submitted

Thanks, I appreciate it. I had so many more things I wanted to add but a week isn't long. I thought it was interesting to see the similarities in our games but also the game design choices you made. I had a few "Darn I should have done that." moments hahaha.

Developer

Do tell what game design choices you liked for your own game! Funny thing is I have learned more about leaf-cutter ants and plan on changing many things. The ants will still forage but may not only have 1 role anymore.

Submitted

The ones that comes to mind:
- Queuing on plants. During the late game my dogs were dumb and would wonder around. For my game I didn't want the player to control the prairie dogs at all but if I could have made certain holes higher priority so that the player could make them move towards food sources that would have been good.
- Having them consume food over time is a good idea.


I had plans on setting up certain prairie dog watch outs which would call out when predators came close but yeah... ran out of time.

Submitted

Although its unique in its own right this totally reminds me of a project I was working on a while back that I never finished. I like the idea.

Developer(+1)

Maybe you and I should collaborate on a project then!

Submitted(+1)

Really cool design with the ant colony controls.  it was fun watching them go and do their work.  Keep working on it and add some more feedback/polish/game juice/sound.  The UI and sprites were cool too.   Great job submitting a game to the jam!  Please check out mine when you have time :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you. I feel like a lot of this was thrown together. I'm proud of the UI but it is mostly just functional ATM

Submitted(+1)

Fun game. Remember to post Image aswell. 👍

Developer

After this comment, I did! It didn't even occur to me that I should do that.

Submitted

Great! :)

Submitted(+1)

Hey this is ntwiles from the discord. Had a lot of fun playing this. Can’t wait to see what you do with it.

Developer(+1)

You were the first. Thanks for giving it a whirl.

Submitted

Happy to! Let me know if you add anything to the game. I love a good RTS. Here’s mine if you want to check it out. https://itch.io/jam/brackeys-3/rate/572795?after=18#comments