Technical comment: Ren’Py generates a zip file that works on both Windows and Linux, but if you generate the zip file outside of Ren’Py it can get tricky to run on Linux, and I can tell you did that (either that or you removed files and added them back in). I had to right-click two files and mark them as executable and then it finally worked.
Halloweeny?: Did the ants start invading on the 31st of October of some year? Idk. But I guess this VN is spooky enough to recite at a halloween party.
Scary: Pretty. I don’t think I’ve ever seen vampires, werewolves, demons, ghosts or witches irl, but I have seen ants.
Monsterous!: Those ants are monsters, or maybe it’s the pack of them that’s one huge monster. Oh wait, hadn’t I decided that this was the category where I’d rate the audio? There’s music, but no sound effects, and no VA either. Not that the story mentions things making a lot of noise (well, there’s the phone ringing, I guess), and there’s no direct speech dialogue between characters, which means there could have been some sound effects but VA doesn’t really make sense… except it would have been relatively easy to add since there’s only one character. I mean, narrator’s aren’t that easy to voice, but the fact that there’s only one character means you don’t need a lot of actors, and also one person could read the story from start to finish in one take and that would technically have been enough. And yeah, I could see this VN turned into a song, in which case VA and music would kinda be the same thing. Well, I’ll have to think about this before I decide exactly which rating to give in this category.
Candy!!: Do ants eat people as if they were candy? Or maybe the art is meant as eye candy. Well, the art is sorta good, and looks quite consistent throughout the story, but it also feels like someone went for a walk and took a couple of photographs, then painted some ants into them and applied some sort of blur filter to hide the imperfections. So good, but not mindblowingly good art.
Fun: It is an interesting VN, even if I think a part of what makes it interesting is that it’s poetry.
And yeah, I’m not sure exactly how the category names are meant to be interpreted.