The game was cute, I loved the ant animation. The mechanic of moving around and zoom was cool (magnifying glass vibe), nice job on creating your game! Especially for a first jame!! :D
Feedback:
- I think where this game suffers is direction and clarity on what you're supposed to do. After reading Sam's comment I tried a second time and worked out cactus feeds mushroom, mushroom feeds egg and egg makes baby ant. (just going on what I see as images)
I think if you fleshed out your game page or even in game menu to explain the game it would increase the fun factor simply by not being confused.
- The baby ant would get stuck not knowing how to navigate paths properly and it was confusing at first what it was doing.
- Make the game window bigger for browser as its super tiny and I had to zoom my browser in
- I'm not sure if this is meant to be a mechanic/feature but I think it would be cool if baby ant's could dig dirt and make their own paths. In the end I was basically just removing all the dirt as opposed to making ant tunnels.
- Also if you had a first step "tutorial" to collect the first food and mushroom that would help A LOT
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