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Ants at War
By magicspark
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| Category | Rank | Score | Count |
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| Coolness | 1 | 100 | | |
| Graphics | 28 | 4.53 | | |
| Audio | 162 | 3.53 | | |
| Overall | 211 | 3.45 | | |
| Mood | 253 | 3.32 | | |
| Theme | 281 | 3.33 | | |
| Innovation | 370 | 3.02 | | |
| Humor | 414 | 2.45 | | |
| Fun | 428 | 2.91 | | |
Comments
I love this game, the only downside is the difficulty.
It's extremely easy, you only need 2-3 ants to win because once they make it to the enemy queen the new enemy ants that spawn not defend it, they just come to attack your queen instead.
You can just get a couple ants attacking the enemy queen and block yours off with rocks.
I think it would be better if the rocks were a lot easier to break.
In the mushroom level is there two pathways going around your side of the map but nothing will ever go through the bottom side, even if you block the top off completely.
The music and art for this game is amazing, and I think the ants seem to dance to the soundtrack sometimes? That's awesome :)
Looks great, and the music and graphics build a nice overall mood too. I'd love to play this once it's been fully fleshed out.
Thanks :)
@harleylaurie: the queens used to drop also soldiers ants, which enabled them to be more defended. However, we saw just after the deadline that a variable had changed and that the queens only drop workers ants all the time... I'll have to test for the mushroom level, maybe the weights on the map are not adapted.
galdon
2014-04-29 03:13
Looks like it has potential, though the enemy doesn't spawn anything beyond the weakest unit so it is effortlessly easy.
xbcw
2014-04-29 03:28
Nice graphics and sound. I was a bit confused on how to play.
Love all the graphics and the music but I wish there was some kind of guide because I have no idea what i'm doing.
buriteam
2014-04-29 03:37
It looks like it's cool.. but It's crashing here man! When it's loading the maps
@BuriTeam: it crashes for every map? What Windows are you using?
@Clinthoney: we had planned to add a lot more stuff to the game, for example some text instead of just "victory" or "defeat". Basically, you can buy some additional units, or "plant" things in the ground to prevent the red ants to attack the queen.
gene-z
2014-04-29 04:22
Very nice Graphics, but confuse,,
marjie62
2014-04-29 04:28
Looks amazing, but I had a lot of trouble getting it to work. The ants would all freeze after playing for a few minutes. At first I thought it was because I blocked off their only path, but that didn't seem to be the case the later times I played. Also, it was very difficult to pan to the right, because of the toolbar. The ants didn't seem to attack each other when they met
Really nice looking game! I had one serious issue where all the ants on the map just stopped moving. They just stood around playing their idles.
2014-04-29 04:41
Really love the art for this, UI included! Had trouble figuring it out at first, such as what ants did what. Still really cool!
Nice art style but I found the UI kind of confusing.
phocker
2014-04-29 04:51
nice job. the look of the ants was awesome. I really felt like I was watching real ants. the gameplay needs work but overall I liked it.
naouak
2014-04-29 12:04
I did not undestood what I had to do.
Beautiful game, although not very intuitive.
Love the visuals and seems fun to play but the only issue is that it crashed midway the game.
Nice game, nice graphics and songs. But some times the game "bug" and all the ants stop.
@GamerTaters and Lukbebalduke, thanks for the feedback, we will test and try to solve that crash.
I click on the production but nothing seem to be happening. The money is dropping correctly but no ants are being produced.
The art style is top-notch though, and this could definitely become something great when completed.
@theholychicken: Thanks :) The queen only drops a unit every second or so, which means if you buy units (the first two icons) they will be queued and created as soon as possible. For the other icons ("towers"), they have to be placed on the map!
First, those graphics are amazing. The music is good, too. However... you managed to combine two of my worst genres, so I have no idea what I was doing. Still, definitely something to expand on, post-jam. Very cool.
Looks and sounds great. I had some trouble figuring out which ant was mine to start with, and at various points all the ant just stopped moving.
Other than that it was good fun.
metkis
2014-04-30 20:38
The graphics are stunning! I found the game to be a tad too easy, but hey, that's hardly a problem coming from me.
brodavi
2014-05-01 06:19
I agree, amazing graphics! The game was obviously very ambitious, and you've done an incredible job getting it this far! That said, I couldn't get into the flow. I think more time on mechanics/polish and less on the amazing graphics would have been a good trade off.
Excellent job! :D
Good art and good audio. The game itself was a bit confusing at first, but after a while i found it pretty easy.
Nice graphics! Needs some adjustments to the difficulty (too easy) and path finding, but other than that feels quite solid!
Cool game! I included your game in part 6 of my Ludum Dare compilation video series! http://youtu.be/K5ATRciKj24
I made a mistake, it is in part 7 :)
The graphics look great. As others have said, it is really easy to win. Also, I kept encountering a problem where I could get all path-finding to stop. Enemy ants and my ants would just give up and stand still. I think it was due to the placement of the underground bug.
Overall, this is a cool idea that I'd like to see fleshed out.
Here it is: http://youtu.be/Lm7qNa6SIqA
td1801
2014-05-02 16:22
An impressive game, but all the ants stop after somes times..
The graphics were perfect!
gwa
2014-05-02 19:30
Ipressiv special the graphics are awsome
great work! Sadly it is "to easy" to really enjoy it but that does not change the great art and music (- : very well made, thx for sharing!
Great mood. I really enjoyed the graphics but gameplay was awkward.
Very good game! Plays well though there are two small things that are missing in this game that would have made it harder and much more enjoyable in my opinion.
The first is that there should have been a cooldown on all the units this was kinda essential I feel because I would just keep spamming the soldier units.
The second thing is that the enemy ant queen should have used the soldier ants as well this would have added a bit of difficulty as well since they are a lot harder to kill.
There was a bug in the game I found though and that was in the third level where all the ants stopped moving. I'm not completely sure why but I have an idea that if one ant is stuck all the others stop moving. I came to this conclusion because I got one my ants stuck in rocks I placed and all the other ants stopped.
Again good job on the game and if you do continue this after the fact I hope it all goes well and turns into what you envisioned for it!
Cool concept for a game. I love the art and music, very slick. Maybe not the most intuitive game ever, could use a bit more in the way of tutorials and hints to guide the player along - but I understand you probably didn't have time for that. Once you do get to grips with it its a bit easy, as well. Otherwise this is a great job and I'd love to see it expanded upon.
nicom
2014-05-04 02:04
Gorgeous game, I wasnt entirly sure of what to do, some menu buttons didn't seem to have an effect, and eventually I managed to get every any stuck in one hole and spinning around crazily, but I'm pretty sure thats my fault. The art amazes me, looks like you put months into it:) the music is great too:) GREAT JOB!!:D
dertom
2014-05-04 20:07
Very good and polished game already! I wasn't quite sure how to control the ants but it was fun see the queen do all the work while I press the buttons :D I won but wasn't sure how exactly I did achieve it. Nonetheless very good stuff!
tehryanx
2014-05-04 20:55
great work! the ants looked perfect
Amazing art, a bit confusing though. At one point, all the ants stopped moving and I didnt know what to do.
It has a lot of potential!
Woa, really really great guys!
Polish & fun!
mcapraro
2014-05-07 05:23
really cool, and amazing that you built this in such a short amount of time! great job!
Had quite a bit of fun giving this a play. I always enjoy slower paced games that are almost like an rts. I would say maybe give folks something like a mutant ant tower they can build/upgrade and your set.
The only issues I ran into was so many ants getting caught in an ant lion pit crashing/freezing the game. So awesome job.
Also this was featured in a handy dandy Ludum Dare showcase ta boot. http://youtu.be/HB1A8GTxm5Q
nanolotl
2014-05-17 13:03
Amazing graphics. Best that I have seen for this LD. The music wasn't bad either. The ant behaviours seemed a little odd though. Sometimes they would just stop and not do anything.