FoonLudum Dare ExplorerLD57 → A Hill to Die For

A Hill to Die For

By ogladian, SSSigaretta, CheesyPotatoes27 and AlbieG

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall5643.3725
Fun6113.1025
Innovation1543.8025
Theme3693.8025
Graphics5573.4125
Audio4763.0024
Humor3712.9723
Mood7063.0723

Comments

helloimbenjamin 2025-04-08 18:07

Great job! I really like the idea. The pixel art was super cute and fit the style really well. The tongue on the anteater got stuck during my first playthrough, but overall it was a lot of fun!

keith-wang 2025-04-08 18:40

Love the idea and great graphics. The tongue got stuck as well, but I am kinda glad it did so that I can just do whatever I want. After producing a few more ants the game became pretty slow for me. I was playing the browser version.

butterflan 2025-04-08 18:50

I have some problems to understand how it works at the start, but when the controls was understand, I really like the mecanic ! I don't know if it has an end tho, the game was really slowly at a moment.

dubiousduck 2025-04-10 00:27

Cool game! I really like the concept. The music is very cute and suits the vibe of the game really well. Yeah as others said the toungue kinda got stuck so I was just free to do anything I want. Otherwise, good job! (Oh and just rememebered for some reason I can never spawn new ants even though I have enough food)

salaro 2025-04-10 01:55

I am ant, I dig hole, I get eaten. Lift lift lift lift

mirinae 2025-04-10 01:56

I really like how you implemented the digging!

jamesgames1000 2025-04-10 01:57

The tongue got stuck :( It was really fun though great job. All though I do suggest adding more resources if you plan on adding more post LD.

addison-borchelt 2025-04-10 02:09

I had fun playing this but at one point the anteater's tongue broke and the broken piece kept chasing me... Maybe a couple bugs in the tongue behavior haha

villeloso 2025-04-10 02:38

Took me a while to get the controls, but once understood the game was super fun, eating dirt is oddly satisfying. Loved the humor

tugaryn 2025-04-10 20:19

The control is not very clear initially, not very convenient, but in general okay I kind of had an anteater bug, and I was fine playing.

And so cool I like it thanks!

alec 2025-04-11 02:41

As others have mentioned, I had a hard time figuring out the controls. Other then that the game is nice and I like the artwork.

lectvs 2025-04-11 04:43

Cool concept! I don't know why, but the button to make a new ant didn't work, even if I had enough food.

drsmey 2025-04-11 18:55

Very cool game. My only complaints are that it was very easy to ward off the ant eater with a single blockade and then it felt like there was no real objective other than going deeper and making more ants.

Solid entry overall.

siilicac 2025-04-12 14:33

cool concept i love the ant games this jam good job!

sam-gorman 2025-04-13 04:20

I like the vibes of this game a lot - the random names and little dialogue messages add a lot of character to the ants, and the music and pixel art is super fun. I also like the game concept quite a lot. It seems like there's some great strategy involved in balancing expanding your colony and blocking the anteater, and also some opportunity for expansion post-jam (more depth to building a colony, more resources to find, stuff like that).

Unfortunately the game just didn't work very well for me. Certain mechanics, like how blockades and rooms worked, or when I could and couldn't spawn ants, weren't clearly explained, so I was pretty confused about how to play. Things also kept getting stuck - the tongue frequently kind of broke apart into bits or stalled in the middle of a tunnel, which often completely removed any danger from the game. Also, at a certain point in each of my attempts, all the ants would stop and become mostly unclickable. If I rarely did manage to select one, none of the options did anything. So no matter what I did, I could never play the game as intended for long.

It's a shame because I really like the design! If you manage to get some of those aspects of the game fixed up, I'd love to play a post-jam version and give it a proper go.

braktheman 2025-04-13 05:22

Enjoy the style and look of the game but like many others the tongue broke, kind of fixed itself, and then broke again. I do think there is a good game concept in here but without the tongue I was just digging up a world to build more ants.

Could feel the personality with the ants dialogue too.

Nice creative use of the theme. Good tongue animation!

antoine-bodin 2025-04-13 09:21

Nice prototype ! I would definetly love to see it more polished in the future. It lagged a lot in the browser and the tongue got stuck. Also there is a bug when you want to build 2 rooms at the same time with different ants, the first one gets teleported and help the other Anyway it was fun and the art was really cool, nice work for a game jam !

crozzy 2025-04-15 14:51

I enjoyed the game. Very nice art and the gameplay itself is interesting. Good start)