The Battle Ants

ejunegao 2024-10-07 11:04

Good job! I had fun playing this game. It must be hard to balance all the ants because there seem to be so many design decisions to make with all these types of ants.

There are two thoughts when I was playing. First, balancing was destroying some possibilities for strategies. I could see some possible strategies from the ant combinations and they would seem fun. Until I realized the power of carpenter ants. I actually waited long to build a bullet ant, only to be destroyed in around 4 to 5 hits, which made me determine into making 50 more carpenter ants to finish the game. Personally I feel like a easy solution to end carpenter ant meta is to have an AOE solution.

Second thing was that, upgrades further push the players to focus on one archetype, which might not necessarily be fun in this type of game. Players would be encouraged to build more of that upgraded archetype, and it's again likely to be the carpenter ants.

Still, it was a fun experience learning how each ant functions, trying out each ant and finding out a strategy to win!

sviborg 2024-10-07 11:10

Thats classic game :thumbsup:

gonnaflymethod 2024-10-07 16:00

Reminds me plants vs zombie, the battle ants is pretty engaging

zwartraider 2024-10-07 16:06

That was a super fun game! I went hard with a swarm of the cheap ants, stomping the enemy stoner ants. But they managed to come back and smashed me instead! Game looks good and plays good, great entry! :ant: :ant: :ant:

jacobloon 2024-10-07 16:13

Spectacular choice in creature, fun tribute(?) game as well.

adrien-tremblay 2024-10-10 01:24

Reminds me of "Age of War"! A classic game. The art is so cute especially the designs and animations for all the types of bugs. But yes, it isn't well balanced. I feel like the enemy is too weak, they dont upgrade fast enough. Also, the fact that I can just upgrade my cheaper ants gives me less incentive to buy the expensive ones? I'm not sure what the solution to this though as I do like that I can upgrade my units!

mibi88 2024-10-12 10:45

Small fun game, but the computer isn't strong enough and the carpenter ants are OP. The graphics are cool! A good entry!

fractal 2024-10-17 17:07

Nice concept, but not very well balanced indeed. It is super easy to win with only the most basic ants.

nazariglez 2024-10-17 18:19

Fun game with cute art! The ant designs and animations are great, and I really enjoyed experimenting with the different strategies. The game is engaging and has a lot of potential, gj!

rohun 2024-10-17 18:30

Super cool game! I had fun playing and sending my army of ants. I kinda wish there was a way to get money from ants instead of waiting. The game was super engaging and really want more

oller125 2024-10-19 22:05

Cool idea. Though it was bit too easy. Carpenter ants on their own were enough.

thetobz 2024-10-23 17:59

Very nice classic! For a prototype, I'd say this is more than enough to get you started and maybe you'll end up investing time for balancing, art, more depth etc. :)

hengen 2024-10-23 18:01

ez.jpg Ok so i figured out the difficulty is based on the enemies base's health and not on a timer, so the meta is to simply stall for time and upgrade the base to max before you attack the enemies base, then you upgrade the tier one ant, then Spam a massive wave! EZPZ

fun game 10/10