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Ant Wars RTS by DragonsBeardGames

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made by DragonsBeardGames for Ludum Dare 45 (COMPO)

Start with nothing but a nest. Build gatherers and warriors and conquer the ant world. RTS game

Defending.gif

You can not move your workers, they automatically will mine. Control the warriors by placing beacons with right click

Controls:

WASD to move the camera

Left Click on a nest to create a gatherer

Right Click on a nest to create a warrior

Left click anywhere to create a nest

Right click anywhere to create an attack waypoint (Right click waypoint to delete)

ALT- F4 to close the game (Forgot to add quit button)

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Bug Fixes

Removed "E" key giving infinite food.. forgot that was left in....

Spawning Queen doesn't put you in negative food

Follow my game dev journey on

https://www.instagram.com/dragonsbeardgames/

https://twitter.com/DragonsBeardDev

WEB BUILD - Make sure to maximize it, wasn't designed to scale gui

Youtube https://gamejolt.com/games/AntWars/443198
Youtube https://bitbucket.org/Railor/ludum-dare-45/src/master/
Youtube https://gamejolt.com/games/AntWars/443198
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/45/ant-wars

Ratings

Overall 50th 3.946⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Fun 24th 3.982⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 333th 3⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 371th 3⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 340th 3⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 284th 2.36⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Mood 289th 3.058⭐ 28🧑‍⚖️
Given 30🗳️ 27🗨️

Feedback

Stefanie Leitch
06. Oct 2019 · 22:35 UTC
Awesome job! My mind is kinda blown that you managed to essentially build an RTS in 48 hours. Brought me back to my time playing SimAnt -- wish there was more!
🎤 DragonsBeardGames
06. Oct 2019 · 23:01 UTC
@stefanie-leitch Thank you so much, Sim ant was the inspiration behind it!
lizelive
06. Oct 2019 · 23:30 UTC
this is my favorite so far :)
Piturnah
06. Oct 2019 · 23:43 UTC
This is super fun! It wasn't super intuitive, but once I figured it out I had a great time. Will definitely revisit another day.
himegized
06. Oct 2019 · 23:52 UTC
Never thought I needed large scale ant battles before in my life, way to prove me wrong.
NachtWitch
07. Oct 2019 · 01:25 UTC
Really cool concept
Pavel Ivanov
07. Oct 2019 · 03:32 UTC
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
diaonic
07. Oct 2019 · 03:37 UTC
My super ants are taking over the world... one waypoint at a time. Great job, had some fun with this one.
![ants.png](///raw/159/z/26c86.png)
tic
07. Oct 2019 · 11:31 UTC
I looked at the code and saw that it was done with unity, is it possible to have a web version hosted on itch.io or equivalent ? This looks awesome and I really want to test it but I won't have access to a Windows PC most of the time I will be testing games :s
Griz
07. Oct 2019 · 11:34 UTC
You could make a multiplayer .io game out of this :).
🎤 DragonsBeardGames
07. Oct 2019 · 12:11 UTC
@tic I have added a web build, Make sure to maximize it as I did not scale the gui to fit a small screen. Hopefully it doesn't have performance issues on the web version.
TwinTurboDouche
07. Oct 2019 · 12:44 UTC
A multiplayer version of this game would be awesome! Super ants FTW!
WashingMachinae
07. Oct 2019 · 12:50 UTC
I spent way more time on this than I thought I would. One note though, with a large map after a while the game starts choking out because of the amount of ants in the world
Baturinsky
07. Oct 2019 · 13:20 UTC
Needs some indication of new base scheduled to built. I thought my click did nothing and lciked again, and got two bases at the same place.
🎤 DragonsBeardGames
07. Oct 2019 · 13:23 UTC
@baturinsky I had a line drawing from the nest to where the queen was going. But I used Debug.Drawline so when I built the game debug lines don't show. Woops
Odeyalko
07. Oct 2019 · 13:23 UTC
Cool game, it was difficult at first, and then also difficult, always difficult.
sansman01
07. Oct 2019 · 17:29 UTC
I peacefully built my colony and suddenly I get crushed by a swarm of ants. I love it :)
🎤 DragonsBeardGames
07. Oct 2019 · 18:36 UTC
@sansman01 @odeyalko Glad you guys enjoyed it. It does seem to either crush you or be too easy, Hard to get a fine balance. But the difficulty slider should help in either direction
07. Oct 2019 · 18:56 UTC
Really cool concept! Hope you do more updates!
Martin Waters
08. Oct 2019 · 10:25 UTC
I love it!)
Fupi
08. Oct 2019 · 18:12 UTC
This is amazing! I had never played an RTS before, and this game's mechanics are so easy to understand that even I played for a long while. The AI is really impressive for the time period you were given. Have nothing to complain about, I'm so glad I found this game!
🎤 DragonsBeardGames
09. Oct 2019 · 19:03 UTC
@fupi @martin-waters Thanks for the support!!! It really encourages me to keep trying to make games :)
Jesús González
09. Oct 2019 · 23:14 UTC
I made a similar, but significantly worse in terms of gameplay, game for another jam https://rootstudio.itch.io/hive-mind. I really like RTS with macro focused controls, almost 5/5 from me, it was just missing some sound and a way to know if you're under attack, but I perfectly understand how hard is to make an RTS for a jam. Great job.
kuro
10. Oct 2019 · 10:51 UTC
Nice to have a RTS I can actually win. Great job! The best game for me fun-wise so far!
TORT60091
11. Oct 2019 · 16:47 UTC
I like it because rts logic is most hard game genre and you make it pretty well, it's good hard work in 48 hours!
And I thank you for html5 version, cause test windows builds on mac is really uncomfortable ))
Ryu
13. Oct 2019 · 15:59 UTC
@dragonsbeardgames Cool game! Really enjoyed playing it :). The controls are a bit unintuitive, but was a blast once I got used to it