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TinyColony

By aaronsnoswell

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Fun783.56
Theme863.75
Overall1663.44
Audio1723.13
Mood2213.07
Humor3122.47
Innovation3303.16
Graphics4152.91

Comments

endurion 2012-04-23 06:38

Waiting for the Windows build

mikelovesrobots3 2012-04-23 06:39

Nice job! I've totally got a soft spot for ant games.

rustymoyher 2012-04-23 07:27

Victory for tenderfoot! Smooth and fun.

Can you share a bit about the development? What tools/frameworks did you use? Where you familiar with them? How well did it work out?

Fun game here.

fredericrp 2012-04-23 08:08

Good whole, original idea !
I won with only encountering 1 red ant, I must try again !

tentontoon 2012-04-23 09:07

Waiting for an iMac to play the game on...
Or the Windows build, I guess ;)

maranas 2012-04-23 09:11

I like it when the entry really tries to play to the theme, and not around it. Creating an awesome platformer with a "tiny world" sprite sheet is awesome, but innovating on gameplay to meet the theme requirements takes a lot more, IMO. Thanks for this. I miss SimAnt :))

fatsquirrel 2012-04-23 13:18

I liked collecting the food and finally proving who is superior...that would be blue. It would be nice to have an attack button. I liked the music, AI, and fun factor. Good job!

aaronsnoswell 2012-04-23 13:33

Thanks for the feedback, fatSquirrel - Space is the attack button (you bite the enemy ants, just like your pickup food) :)

julianspillane 2012-04-23 13:55

I'm also waiting for a Windows or web build. Looks fun!

airrider3 2012-04-23 13:56

I've love it!

I have always loved the fact of just controlling one player of a team, and the rest controlled by the AI. (Like in my game)

It could have been a bit more difficult.

kvisle 2012-04-23 14:28

Waiting for a Windows or Linux build.

cmo7 2012-04-23 14:29

Waiting for a build I can play, looks nice.

aaronsnoswell 2012-04-23 14:30

Thanks for the comments everyone! I'll have access to a PC tomorrow so I'll try and get a windows build up then!

waschnick 2012-04-23 14:53

Please do, I really want the Windows build :)

skyboy49707 2012-04-23 15:02

Pretty nice game! I really like watching the ants fight each other.

hulahulahest 2012-04-23 16:08

Can't play (don't have MacOS X machine available).

alwaysgeeky 2012-04-23 20:55

Surprised how many people made a game containing ants... still very nice!

netmute 2012-04-24 11:43

Gameplay is super smooth and fun, graphics are great, sound is not annoying :)
Difficulty is way too easy. My blue ants crushed the reds in 2 minutes with me basically doing nothing at all.

Overall a great game!

pyro 2012-04-24 17:33

Very fun and addictive!

ace 2012-04-24 17:40

Well made game, the text positioning could've been better but apart from that there's not much I can copmlain about.
Nice graphics and music, the leveling system was a good touch too.

lucas-tiridath 2012-04-24 17:55

Excellent game! Great fun to play :). Victory at commander level with a population of 85. It took ages to track down that last crafty red ant! Anyhow really great entry, amazing you can make that in 48 hours.

cr0ybot 2012-04-24 18:13

Love the music! SimAnt was one of my favorite DOS games back in the day. I wish the movement controls were mouse-based instead of WASD; it was strange seeing all of the other ants moving in straight lines while I had to move at 45° or 90° angles.

the8donut 2012-04-24 21:04

Fun game with smooth controls! Love the background too. Good job!

robcozzens 2012-04-25 02:15

Cool graphics.

cherrynukacola 2012-04-25 03:20

Wow! Love the whole sim-rpg concept. Could have kept playing this game for quite a long time ^_^ . Nice controls - wouldn't mind seeing this one expanded on. - Cheers!

zythiku 2012-04-25 03:31

Reminded me of sim ant a little. Was fun even those the red ants never fought back. Somehow relaxing just collecting food.

orni 2012-04-25 06:59

this is a great concept - it's a shame you had to cancel those features you wanted to implement

I really enjoyed being an ant :D
it induced some "hey, don't hit my buddy!" feeling - being like a big brother for all the ants, which got even better since the player becomes bigger and stronger as the game progresses

ilo 2012-04-26 01:51

I derived a little too much enjoyment from making my ant dance to the music...

*ahem*

And the game was pretty good too!

danik 2012-04-26 19:47

Nice game, and great music!

davidpeter 2012-04-29 01:29

Fun game! I really liked the AI for the ants, especially how I had to fight my own ants to get to the food first :)

thegreystudios 2012-04-29 14:20

Nice little game, neat AI :)

cosmologicon 2012-05-01 16:31

Looks cool, unfortunately I can't play it, as I'm on Linux. I'm only posting because your game shows up on my queue when I search for "HTML5" so I need to clear it out. Looking forward to your entry next time! :)

asfdfdfd 2012-05-07 18:48

Exciting idea and cool music.

jellyfame 2012-05-12 23:32

Very entertaining, i love ants! Too bad it's so short.