Thanks for the encouragement - I have been working on it more today and making lots of progress.  After I upload the revisions, it will be more playable and hopefully more fun!

Thank you - I have been making some offline updates and revisions, and I hope to upload a new more complete version that will be more playable and hopefully more fun too as well!

Thanks!  I have been making progress recently in both its design and implementation.  I hope to upload a new version fairly soon that features significantly more progress than what had been made during the gamejam due date window.  Unlike the initial upload, the future upload should be a completely playable game and hopefully it will be fun to play!

Thanks for the comment and advice!  I would like to create an input layer for the keyboard, both WASD and arrow keys, the mouse, touchscreen and joypad.  Using AGK (AppGameKit) I should be able to do so without too much trouble or effort.  I also want to animate the ants using cel frames, because I have additional photos to make them appear more crawly.  It is so easy for classic "feature creep" to permeate a project, even a relatively simple game!  But, if I do things one step at a time in iterations it should be attainable.  Thanks for your encouraging message; I think that with the several comments different users have given encouraging me to finish the game I started, I feel inspired and motivated to do so!  In fact, I think I'll even work on it some this evening, and when I have something more playable I'd like to inform those who have commented here in case they'd like to give it a 2nd go in its more advanced state.  Thanks again!

Thanks!  If I update this current game and complete it anytime soon, I intend to also let all the itch.io commenters here know about it.  I did not expect but do appreciate all the supportive and encouraging comments that have been received!

I am enjoying reviewing and rating other games in the gamejam.  That too is definitely a rewarding aspect of participating in a gamejam.

You're correct - the game's design is that the cannon can shoot the ants, but the incomplete game does not yet have sprite collision.  That is definitely a key feature of the game that I need to add!  Thanks for the comment and feedback, appreciated.  I do hope to make progress in the development of this particular game as time permits.

That's a good idea, thanks.  It is fairly easy to add WASD input mappings using AppGameKit (currently, the left and right arrow keys and the spacebar allow for movement and firing).  In addition, I'd like to add basic joystick/joypad support, and possibly also mouse movement support even though AGK does not support a relative mode for mouse input.  The original idea/vision was to also have the ants move horizontally zig zag down the screen, some ants direct vertically, and a few ants at downward angles.  And with cel animation frames, and aligned facing rotation.  Each time an ant gets hit with a bullet it would be replaced by another slightly faster ant, up to a limited maximum speed.  And each time an ant hits the bottom of the screen, it would chip away at the player's score or shield buffer or something similar to that, until the ants prevail and the game ends.  I think I will finish it and update it post-gamejam, thanks for the suggestion.  I genuinely appreciate users' feedback, suggestions, constructive criticism and the like, thanks!

Thanks for the comment!  The graphics feature some photos I took of real ants, even though the photos have since been pixelated!

Thanks!  I hope to make future refinements and finish it or some variant of it later sometime.  I appreciate your encouraging message.