{"author_link":"\/author\/kernel_panic\/","author_name":"kernel panic","author_uid":"8025","comments":[{"author_name":"Joeslayer97","author_uid":"10894","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 10:32am","epoch":1367317620,"text":"Good game... however incredibly hard! Really a game that could become addicting!"},{"author_name":"Tater_hater","author_uid":"21618","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:30pm","epoch":1367353500,"text":"I love ant sims! This one doesnt dissapoint either"},{"author_name":"Starspell","author_uid":"1791","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:34pm","epoch":1367353740,"text":"A really interesting take on the theme. It's obvious that a lot of work went into this. I really liked how it was presented but it would have been nice to have some definitive goal to drive you. Would have been nice to have WASD key control as well as Arrow Keys for better two handed play."},{"author_name":"loxo","author_uid":"23206","time":"Apr 30, 2013 @ 8:38pm","epoch":1367353980,"text":"Interesting idea, I like it. It gets quite hard to manage all your ants over an infinite world."},{"author_name":"Atridas","author_uid":"627","time":"May 1, 2013 @ 5:09pm","epoch":1367427840,"text":"The moment you made something sim-ant-resembling, you got me."},{"author_name":"EdoMiyamoto","author_uid":"18304","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 5:55pm","epoch":1367517000,"text":"I miss SimAnt :( make this project alive !"},{"author_name":"TheCze","author_uid":"17841","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 9:14pm","epoch":1367528940,"text":"Aaah I love games like that. The pheromenes did not really help me but I really love the simulation aspect of your game."},{"author_name":"kernel panic","author_uid":"8025","time":"May 2, 2013 @ 9:22pm","epoch":1367529420,"text":"I guess people really want me to make this into something big... You're becoming convincing too..."},{"author_name":"intripoon","author_uid":"11637","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 11:31am","epoch":1367580360,"text":"Protip: Don't set the speed to slow and try using any of the commands ..."},{"author_name":"Norgg","author_uid":"5283","time":"May 3, 2013 @ 11:39am","epoch":1367580840,"text":"Yay, another ant game!"},{"author_name":"LTyrosine","author_uid":"6633","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 1:28am","epoch":1367630580,"text":"This game is amazing. Very cool to find routes to new source of food and growing your colony. There's a lot of room for great ideas and improvements, hope you develop it further."},{"author_name":"someone","author_uid":"1207","time":"May 4, 2013 @ 11:00pm","epoch":1367708100,"text":"Yay, ants!"},{"author_name":"ohsqueezy","author_uid":"10718","time":"May 6, 2013 @ 3:50pm","epoch":1367855100,"text":"Cool to see experimentation in data structures and algorithms in addition to game design."},{"author_name":"sP0CkEr2","author_uid":"7135","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 12:19am","epoch":1368836040,"text":"nice -- gret use of theme -- and it was fun"},{"author_name":"StMatn","author_uid":"18894","time":"May 18, 2013 @ 6:27pm","epoch":1368901320,"text":"Very cool game! It's already addicting, but after a short period of time it got a little bit boring. Some goals would make this even better. Great job!"},{"author_name":"SnoringFrog","author_uid":"20952","time":"May 20, 2013 @ 10:27am","epoch":1369045320,"text":"Wow. I absolutely love this. I ran for about 18k cycles with a high score of 801 ants before giving up and letting the last 150 or so run amok without any guidance as I typed this. I didn't get bored of playing, I just really need sleep haha.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great game."}],"images":["ld26\/8025-ee5d9b0ba97a56d5887592d2b5cf2b35.jpg","ld26\/8025-4caba20bc937253d6189e7c18cb3dfe7.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ashleynewson\/publications\/minimalism-ld26-jam\/ant-commander-ld26-jam.zip?attredirects=0&amp;d=1","text":"Windows and Linux (zip)"},{"url":"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ashleynewson\/publications\/minimalism-ld26-jam\/ants-source.tar.xz?attredirects=0&amp;d=1","text":"Source (GNU GPL3) (tar.xz)"},{"url":"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/ashleynewson\/publications\/minimalism-ld26-jam","text":"Alternate archives (zip, tar.xz)"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"27124","g_author":"8025","g_event":"LD26","g_eventkey":"16","g_subevent":"JAM","g_urlkey":"27154","g_title":"Ant Commander","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"200","g_commentcount":"16","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/8025-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg","http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/233892\/8025-shot1.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"All binaries are bundled together (with Windows DLLs included). Comment if there is a missing DLL.\r\n\r\nIf you're NOT using Windows, you will need to make sure that you have SDL and SDL_ttf installed.\r\n\r\nWell, this one took much longer than it should have, which is ironic considering the theme. This time I put more effort into code organisation than getting results, but I do not regret this decision.\r\n\r\nYou control an army of ant creatures using pheromones (I say ants because that's what they were going to be until I felt time pressure).\r\n\r\nYou can also enjoy a fully proceedurally generated \"inifite\" world.\r\n\r\nThe (minimalist) objective is to keep your \"ants\" (orange) alive by leading them to food (green) using your infinite supply of pheromones (dark blue), which may be selected for drawing using M, or erasing using E. Draw using the mouse. Start the game by clicking somewhere to place an ant.\r\n \r\nWhen an ant is full, it will reproduce (don't take this as a science lesson).\r\n \r\nKeys:\r\n1, 2, 3, 4, 5              - Select a game speed.\r\nM                          - Select pheromone mode.\r\nE                          - Select erase mode.\r\nH                          - Display help text.\r\nHome                       - Go to sector (0, 0).\r\nLeft, Right, Up, Down      - Move view.\r\nLeftShift + Escape         - Quit.\r\n \r\nCommand Line Options:\r\n  .\/ants [SCALE [FULLSCREEN [SEED]]]\r\n \r\n  SCALE is an integer specifying the number of pixels per game cell.\r\n  FULLSCREEN is either 0 (windowed) or 1 (fullscreen).\r\n  SEED is an integer which is used to generate the map.\r\n \r\n  Examples:\r\n    .\/ants 2\r\n      Plays the game with each game cell displayed using 2 pixels.\r\n    .\/ants 2 1\r\n      Plays the game with each game cell displayed using 2 pixels in fullscreen.\r\n    .\/ants 2 1 9001\r\n      Plays the game with each game cell displayed using 2 pixels in fullscreen, playing on map 9001.\r\n<\/p>","title":"Ant Commander"}