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A jam submission

My Tiny ColonyView game page

Build up your tiny ant colony in this idle simulation game! Gather Food, Buy Upgrades, and Defend your Colony!

Submitted by aidanabat, annecanimation — 2 hours, 28 minutes before the deadline

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Results

Criteria	Rank	Score*	Raw Score
Style	#1801	3.500	3.500
Enjoyment	#2796	2.929	2.929
Overall	#3133	2.995	2.995
Creativity	#4825	2.557	2.557

Ranked from 70 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

How does your game fit the theme?
Ant Colonies are "Built to Scale" in that more ants means faster progress. Ants are also related to scale since they are tiny, but through the growth of a colony, they can build themselves to scale enemies

Development Time

96 hours

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im-phillipSubmitted193 days ago(+2)

So charming! Very ant-tertaining 🐜

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This One's On The Mouse!

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aidanabatDeveloper193 days ago

😭😭 I c-ant

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AidanpklnSubmitted193 days ago(+2)

Ant puns were f-ant-astic :)

Really cute lil cookie clicker game!

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Staccoons

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aidanabatDeveloper193 days ago

Dang good job on growing your colony lmao -- TY for the kind words!

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ChristSofty193 days ago(+2)

Hiya chief, thanks for the comments on Scale E. Lizard's bizz!

On a more serious note, nice take on the idle clicker, I really like the theme of your game and your puns.
Slight constructive design notes here just to push your game to the next level;
abbreviations for the huge amount like 20K or 10M would make it way easier to read;
classifying your upgrades in different categories tabs plus making some even more hidden to unlock by buying cheaper ones first would ease on the usage of the screen (and on the scrollbar, damn thing broken in unity haha);
and finally, your artwork is great, put it even more in the design of the game screen and UI!

Nice work!

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aidanabatDeveloper193 days ago(+1)

Thanks for the detailed feedback-- We're definitely working on this after the jam so this helps a lot <3

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MonsieurPazurSubmitted193 days ago(+2)

Nice spin on the whole cookie clicker genre :)

For a jam game I just wish it would ramp up the gain from different sources a bit faster. Also the ant portraits are cute as hell.

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Augustus

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aidanabatDeveloper193 days ago

Thanks for the kind words <3 Wish we buffed up the production rate but I guess that'll have to wait until after the jam lol