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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Audio | #206 | 3.516 | 3.516 |
| Theme | #233 | 3.839 | 3.839 |
| Innovation | #324 | 3.435 | 3.435 |
| Overall | #406 | 3.392 | 3.392 |
| Game Design | #520 | 3.290 | 3.290 |
| Graphics | #623 | 3.290 | 3.290 |
| Fun | #776 | 2.984 | 2.984 |
Ranked from 62 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
In what way does your game fit the theme?
You are making an ant empire (antpire) so the more ants you have the stronger you will be together.
Did you write all the code yourself and made all the assets from scratch?
All the assets (art, sound fx, music ) were made from scratch except for the text font and also all the code was written by me.
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Really nice game. I love maxing out stats in games, the feel of getting stronger is really good. I believe my suggestions wouldn't differ from other comments here. So I'll simply say, congratulations guys.
There can be certain improvements such as adding enemies and you have to fight other ant empires or fighting insects, you can add like a small abilities such as sprint, smell for detecting food when you have evolved enough.
A some bugs: The UI is a bit broken when you are in fullscreen and the working ants goes to "-1", but overall nice game.
I know the bug with the negative working ants. I have fixed it in the last moment but the build was taking too long so I didn't have time to upload it in time for the jam. I will fix this bugs after the jam is over. Thanks for the suggestions :)
The concept fit the theme well, and the shop mechanic introduced nice variety in the upgrade path. It would be cool to see the ant army grow and follow the player when they are not working.
Pretty good game, you feel like you become stronger when getting more ants, the art and music fits it really well, the only thing I think it's missing an actual final goal objective, just upgrading everything feels pretty empty without other objectives aside from getting food.
overall cool little game really enjoyed it.
Good concept that fits the theme well. The growing of your ant army is fun.
Things I would improve: Go for constant pixel size in the art; Rework the calling of ants. Typing is interrupting the game flow in my opinion.
All in all a good entry. Well done!
the game was nice. It was very relaxing and the map was really big. I ended up having 100 ants, At some point of the game my food points reached a negative number when i was spamming the ant power ups, maybe it was a bug. The only problem that i had was there were very few food, and one suggestion is that instead of clicking the left mouse button repeatedly it would be better if you just hold it instead.
yes sorry for the bug. Didn't have time to fix it. Thanks for the suggestion !
I love incremental games!! I got to 95 ants, great job!
Wow great job. Visually the game is very beautiful, the audio is very nice and puts us in a relaxing atmosphere. The gameplay is also relaxing and the player understands very quickly what he has to do because the game guides him well! I really liked the graphics.
The map is super big, it's great.
Good job.
very cool, the only issue is the lack of food, i feel like i'm on antartica
Lol you are an ant :) and for you the map is pretty big. As you advance you find more food :)
Good fun, very enjoyable to play! A little bit too slow at the beginning I feel, harvesting the first thing takes absolutely ages and is quite cumbersome but, once you get more ants it eases up a little. Good job!
A solid idea for the theme. The graphics are pretty simple but get the point across, I noticed and liked all the small touches you added, like the objects fading out when you're behind them, or the text scaling up on hover.
It took me a while to find food, and I reloaded several times. I think maybe having a minimap could've gone a long way in helping the player figure out where they're at, both location-wise, and food-wise (although that can be really hard to implement). Or maybe an option to zoom out for a moment if you stand still and press a key ? Even an arrow pointing towards the hive would've been super helpful in keeping track of my position, it's really hard not getting lost, although I guess that's part of the experience of being an ant :)
I think you did a great job at explaining the concept of the game, although one thing that tripped me up is that I figured out leaves were food only like after 10 minutes of playing (since you cannot eat bushes and trees, I thought leaves were also decorative only), so having a list of food at the beginning could fix that.
Regarding the UI, I feel like you can't reassign the number of workers on a particular food? But the windows still shows up if you click on it. Having to type in a number is a bit jarring, maybe having a + and - button on top of that could make things smoother. I'm also not sure if there's a way to get the exhausted ants back to work, I couldn't find an explanation for that.
I feel like I've talked a lot about negatives and possible improvements, but all in all it was still relaxing to walk around and assign workers on food, it would've been really great with small tweaks and QoL improvements here and there. Well done :)
Thank you for the feedback and all the suggestions. The exhausted ants will be available after a minute. You just have to wait :)
Really enjoyable to play
Cute little game, good job!
great game
I do like the music, cool game
I enjoyed playing this. Nice game.
I really liked this game. The scenery and music were perfect. The ui was great aswell. I too made a game about ants!! Great minds think alike ;)
I really like this one lol, enjoy the change from i getting food around myself to let ants get food for me, the only sad is seem there is no food spawn system after I collect all the food that can't continue. Also maybe add some enemies can be more interesting, great job!
There is always food on the map but it just spawns in different location. It spawns. I think you had bad luck and the food spawned far away in a corner or something like that. Trust me I tested but thanks for the feedback :).
Really nice music, reminds me SimAnt.
Simple but fun game, a minimap would have been nice has it's easy to get lost.
I was thinking but didn't have time to implement it! Thank you for sharing your suggestion with me and giving me feedback!