interesting main mechanic! gave up on level 9 but other than that very good entry, nice art and compact overall experience! well done!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Playability | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Cleverness | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Theme | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
| Artistic Style | #1 | 5.000 | 5.000 |
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- ALL AROUND BANGER. BOY DID LEVEL 9 KICK MY ASS. VERY WELL DONE. KEEP MAKING GAMES!
Did you include your Game Design Document in your downloadable files?
yes
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AntTrail is a puzzle platformer about a ant colony taking over all the food in the kitchen
Extra Notes
Leave a comment if you were able to beat level 9
I recommend playing the windows version and not the web version. It runs better on most pcs.
Comments
317 days ago(+1)
the pirate jam looks really cute and I'm very happy with how its animations came out looking.
The only thing I don't like about my difficulty curve is level 9 I like the level itself, but it's too hard so most players don't get the satisfaction of finessing the game. I should have made level 8 the final level and added level 9 as an extra challenge.
317 days ago(+1)
It's not that the level is super hard, it's that it takes too much time to beat and is a significant jump in difficulty from the previous levels.
Good job. This is a fun puzzle platformer. Took me a bit to beat lvl 9. I enjoyed the challenge.Really cool game! Love the mechanics and the levels. Especially how you introduced one new mechanic at a time.
Small bug: when you respawn on level 9, the red area doesn't turn your trail off until you exit the red. Doesn't impact gameplay, but I wonder if that would have implications if you made more levels. Should be an easy fix though :) 
319 days ago(+1)
Thank you. It's cool to see you kept playing the game all the way to the end. You are only the second person to beat level 9.
I know about this bug and I know why it happens. I discovered it at the end and wasn't able to fix it because I was so tired and didn't have the energy to keep digging throw my spaghetti code, so I left it in because it didn't affect the game's playability.
If I keep working on the game after the jam, I must rewrite most of the code.
Probably 20 minutes, and I think my favorite one was the one where you start at the top and theres a passageway right below you, and you have to drop to a jam on a ledge on the right, and there's a one-way staircase at the bottom. It had the right amount of difficulty for most players I think. I would like more level 9s though maybe as bonus levels or something.
I like the idea of making level 9 a bonus level, then I can give the player the satisfaction of finishing the game and make hard levels.
I'm surprised the tunnel level was your favorite it was the last one finished, and I didn't get to test it on other people like the other levels, so I wasn't sure how it came out. I had the idea for the level early on, but wasn't able to make the level interesting to solve until the end
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