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Incremental Ants (Jam Version)'s itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Gameplay | #21 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
| Fun Factor | #23 | 3.400 | 3.400 |
| Audio | #38 | 3.033 | 3.033 |
| Overall | #45 | 3.106 | 3.106 |
| Visuals | #51 | 3.167 | 3.167 |
| Theme Implementation | #67 | 3.033 | 3.033 |
| Special Object Implementation | #72 | 2.700 | 2.700 |
Ranked from 30 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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It is about managing an ant colony that harvests food before the ground freezes (during the game, more things freeze).
The ants are mostly autonomous, but you can redirect them with a whistle.
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Pretty fun game , like strategy it's really good . Cool to see your ants colecting food , but i buyed like 100 ants , and played in 10 fps :) . in all other cases the game is good .
It's great to see all the feedback here! 🙈sorry about the performance drops, classic case of "it worked ok on my machine" and maybe some wishful thinking against a deadline 😅
Thanks for the game. Squash all ants.
My Computer was screaming for help by the time I hit 100+ ants hahahahaha but damn its really2 fun!
reminds me of games back in the armorgames days lol
Feels quite complex, quite impressive. :)
My computer also got into serious slow downs in the end. :D
Reminded me of Warcraft somehow... Cool fun concept
Cool addictive game. Could feel like the art is following one original style and it is very good. A shame that it is a bit laggy and the difficulty is not well balanced. I can also feel like the whistle could have had a more important role.
Super impressive for 48 hours. Thought the game was pretty fun and the theme comes in decently well however I felt the whistle wasn't very useful in the game. I imagine there wasn't time to test the balance much because I pretty much had every upgrade in 3 minutes and was lagging my computer, hahah.
Would love to see this game fleshed out because there's a lot of cool stuff here!
I am a lover of incremental games and had a good time! I will say that the auto hatch was a dangerous move, I very quickly got to sub-5 frame rates accidentally lol. Regardless the tech tree is super cool and I enjoyed myself!
Very very nice! A couple of my ants decided to go on a strike and stopped working at some point, even whistling didn't have any effect, but we all manage to go through the hard times. A bit laggy towards the end. Loved the music. Amazing work!
Very addictive and fun game! I left auto-hatch on for a little long and the game was lagging a bit, but I did have over 200 ants.
Super cool that you managed to implement a tech tree in time you had in the jam
Fun! I'm an incremental dev too, LOL. Though for this jam I made a puzzle game.
It escalates pretty quickly, and I had to agree with the rest of the comments, I completed it without using the whistle, I felt like it would ruin the optimal strategy the ants were going for.
Still, fun game, great art. Excellent job!
I couldn't figure out how to use the whistle and i ran out of food so i couldn't increase the ants range so i just kinda lost
I really liked the way you used the whistle. I love games where you influence an ecosystem indirectly and then watch what happens.
Freeze was also a really cool mechanic, since the environment changes over time and you have to keep adapting to it.
I almost froze the game by making way too many ants, so next time I want to enjoy trying a smaller, more optimized setup
I love this kind of game! Really fun and efficient. Only frustration is that the game started lagging once I got to 70 or more ants. It's too bad because there's a great gameplay here. I love the fact that the gameplay is limited to 10 minuts (which avoids spending WAAAAAY too much type on this kind of game). I really think it's work to keep developping the project to adjust the balance as I really enjoyed playing as soon as I got my hands on it. Congrats!!!
The visuals were stunning. I loved the upgrade system and music as well!
I think the length of this is perfect for a game jam, but I would love to see a longer version too. One where you have more important interactions with the ants. The whistle was great, but also entirely optional. I used it only to see how it worked and then didn’t bother because ants were finding food quickly anyway. Maybe if ants weren’t scared of predators by default I could use it to scare them from danger.
I also think if this idea were polished up it would be awesome to see how it could expand with different biomes. Move from a colony living in the garden to one in a desert or rainforest, with new enemies and food sources that require new strategies.
As it stands, it’s a great jam game. I would love to see more, but it’s already something to be proud of. Thanks for making it!
Very impressed to see a strategy game in a weekend jam as well executed as this. Under the lashings of visual polish it was kind of easy, and slow, I met my quota and maxed out the tech tree easily within 5 minutes. Then I'm sitting writing a comment and finding faults that would go unnoticed on a shorter playthrough. I don't know if I am using it wrong, but the whistle doesn't have much of an effect. I whistle over the one remaining food source, and they still ignore me. I wonder if it is instead a call to arms, or to guard the base.
I think I'd be asking too much for any new stuff after 5m. Inspiring gameplay, but the final 5 minutes were a bit meh.
Glad you liked it! Yeah I think the ending is too dry, I ran out of time to balance 😭. For a while it was too hard.
The whistle is finicky, it distracts ants from anything but taking home food. Then it wears off, so ants might turn around if there’s a pheromone trail or something.