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Antropolis

By themista92, NoniGirl, AtzederSerbe and keko

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5593.5425
Fun3263.6525
Innovation5693.2724
Theme1574.1525
Graphics8243.1325
Audio5063.1925
Humor6912.7524
Mood8083.2024

Comments

batisdark 2024-10-08 06:11

You survived!

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Apparently there can't be more than 9999 soldiers though :( I love your main menu and credits design!

buzzydev 2024-10-08 08:13

Couldn't play the game properly because of lags. I won't rate the game to be fair.

It looks like a very cool and complex game. Too bad I won't be able to play it.

Also, it would be cool if the tutorial was in the game instead of text.

n-o-x 2024-10-08 08:31

Nice game! I constantly wanted to survive day after day to see how far I could get. I stopped after accumulating around 4 million food.

thatcher-roehl 2024-10-08 11:58

This is a really neat concept, it's simple but it works quite well.

cliff-coffee 2024-10-08 22:46

Nice presentation, love the intro and the cute ants. I just kept building kitchens and couldn't get really past that point though maybe I didn't build enough the first few rounds?

ale 2024-10-08 23:11

That was super addictive! I lost count of how many attempts I did, but the most I managed to survive 16 days and I maxed out at 3000 and something ants. Not knowing exactly how many ants I needed to avoid damage made it into a guessing game, but I guess that's also part of what makes it fun since I need to gamble every day.

I don't really have anything negative to say about this, it's very good. Great job!

...although, I guess maybe the enemy sprites could've been cut out better so they don't have those white pixels around the edges xD

sevadusk 2024-10-09 09:07

Really nice concept. I don't have many negative things to say, great work!

corrochano 2024-10-09 11:11

Super addictive game! I love these colony-building games—they take up more of my time than anything else. Also, the sounds and art are fantastic, especially the 'end of the day' sound! 😊

andreadbx 2024-10-09 11:30

Nice concept! As i said on stream, it's inexplicable to me that this is in Unreal 5 and its not 3d!

jk5000 2024-10-10 06:43

The idea seem fun, and I had fun trying it. But for me it was not super clear what was happening, and what I was suppose to do to survive for very long.

lerkadverka 2024-10-10 22:05

Cool game!

jonathandavidlewis 2024-10-11 05:27

I definitely had fun! I was very surprised to see the game was 575 MB unzipped. Was there a whole other sample project in the zip?

the-quinnzite-mushroom 2024-10-12 00:13

I have always liked colony simulating games. It would be nice to have stats on how much ant's collect and how much the colony uses.

braulio-jg 2024-10-12 00:39

It's a nice colony simulation game, althought I would have liked it much more if the hive looked more alive and responsive to the changes. Anyway, it keeped me entertained for a good amount of time.

themista92 2024-10-12 18:41

@jonathandavidlewis That's the downside of using Unreal 5 for such projects, the engine is quite big. Glad you had fun though :-)

themista92 2024-10-12 18:44

@andreadbx yeah, understandable, Unreal Engine 5 games are known to be raytraced graphics orgasms usually, but the engine works nicely for such UI-only games as well and since I got lots of experience with it, it was a no brainer for me. Feel free to recommend some other engines; Unity is the past for me, Godot is quite cumbersome to work with imo. Let me know if you got a recommendation :-)

themista92 2024-10-12 19:09

@buzzydev Sorry to hear that :-/ Sadly we don't really have a quick-fix for that. Regarding your "tutorial ingame" feedback: That's what we would have loved to do, but sadly we ran out of time to have a solid solution for this, but we fully agree with you!

themista92 2024-10-12 19:12

@the-quinnzite-mushroom yeah, we were thinking about Frostpunk-like resource overviews, but ... @braulio-jg Also this, would have loved to have procedural connections between the rooms with ants running all around and a lot more ambience, but ... ... a game is never finished, but the time limit cuts it. Glad you enjoyed it anyway :-)

ryusui 2024-10-13 02:12

I wish there was more to the battle scenes than just a still image followed by an after-action report. Some visuals - even maybe just some gauges or numbers - would've helped me better connect my actions with the outcomes.

Also - maybe a slider I can click and drag to establish worker/soldier ratios?

tenshi42 2024-10-13 09:17

It is pretty hard to understand how many wariors are needed each night, so feels like "random" for me ^^'

forik 2024-10-14 01:19

And one more game that made in Unreal Engine. Respect for that =D At all I like your game but want more feedback about the night phase. I dont understand how much warriors I need to survive and couz of that I dont have a challenge. Sound when gym builded awesome =D

Great work!

k6l2 2024-10-14 01:34

Others have said it, but I'll say it anyway: I would have preferred it if the engine you used didn't make a 500MB+ binary, and require me to install some engine redistributable that requires me to restart my computer for some reason lol... Aside from that, not a bad entry. I survived for 10 days I think. It would have been nice to actually see the ants interacting with the hazards (like see them fighting off a giant wasp or spider or something). Nice work.

mrbananaz 2024-10-14 19:17

This can get addictive fast

budaniel 2024-10-18 15:23

I made it eleven days, but man, them warrior ants eat allot! lol

psv-games-studio 2024-10-23 23:10

Very cool game! Good job!