Very impressive game, I did a paper/presentation in college on the ant/pheromone pathfinding algorithm, was not expecting it to pop up in a game jam :D
You did an amazing job with the tutorial and adding some really well thought out mechanics to build on the simulation.
Awesome game, were you working by yourself or with a team?
Hey, thanks for your kind comment! Yeah I got myself inspired from a Sebastian Lague video where he does a very similar thing.
I also wanted to try out doing some simulation on the GPU using a "feedback" shader (turned out to be pretty tricky to set up in Godot, but worked out well in the end). The pheromone diffusion is done that way to keep things fast.
I did the coding, background art and the music myself. I got help for the ant and enemy sprites and the SFX.
