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Ant General

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Graphics193.9732
Innovation503.5032
Fun1762.5632
Theme363.5632
Audio2651.3315
Humor2481.8020
Overall1193.0632
Community1072.9021
Coolness1563

Comments

radiatoryang 2011-05-02 08:33

Really cute idea and great graphics

drpetter 2011-05-02 10:04

I managed to beat the second level without carrying sugar, and running at 3 fps in firefox. I just zipped right past all the bugs and got the whole sugar stash for myself. Model general. Perhaps the goal should be to get N (or any) troops to the sugar, rather than just yourself? Looks pretty though.

mjb67 2011-05-02 12:16

I always have one stupid ant that's always going the wrong way :-) Fun game.

lingmops 2011-05-02 14:52

I like the indirect control of the troops concept, bloody difficult game!

cirrial 2011-05-02 14:59

Amazing little game. Awkward to control units indirectly but then that's what makes the game challenging. Gets a little clunky when everything's all clustered into one area. Nice graphics. Very well done. I enjoyed it quite a lot!

zzorn 2011-05-02 15:47

Performance is pretty bad in firefox 3.6, but neat idea. Swarm against swarm battles could be interesting to explore further.

fireslash 2011-05-02 19:59

Loved the graphics. AI was frustrating to deal with.

mpc174 2011-05-03 05:04

Brings back some memories of playing SimAnt! Nice graphics too.

spoon 2011-05-03 10:35

The AI works poorly. All my soldiers get stuck, and won't defend me even though I have the sugar.

Graphics are good though, and it runs okay for me on firefox 3.6.16

@mpc174 SimAnt was one of the first games I ever played - a classic!

winterblood 2011-05-03 20:32

Nice visual treatment, but the soldier ants didn't seem all that helpful - they all got killed halfway through the first level and I sprinted the rest, then on level 2 I didn't see any sugar so just sprinted with a sunflower.

the-jack 2011-05-04 03:51

Insect Overlord. Very nice.

yrael 2011-05-07 19:19

Very interesting concept. Good work on the graphics too.

mwest 2011-05-11 18:21

Very innovative and the graphics are nice - managed to finish it and killed all the bugs on the second level :)! Well done!

endurion 2011-05-12 11:54

Not bad, I like the idea. I got horribly stuck (not literally) in the first level with all soldier ants getting killed and me badly hurt.

Works really nice in a modern browser like IE9.

elbowroom 2011-05-17 22:42

I had trouble playing this on ff.. It works great on IE9. looks pretty great too but I was disappointed when it ended after the second level. It seems like all you do is lead ants to battle.. but it is fun. You don't actually 'order' the ants to affect battle strategy.. which could be interesting.

My suggestions, (1)have surviving ants, gain xp so you can gather a small but trusted group of elite(high lvl) ants to use in the later levels.(2)Add later levels.
(3)Give ants different roles?

Overall very thematic and great fun.