My Keyboard is Full of Ants! by Jeremy Ryan
Overview
There are a bunch of ants living in your computer keyboard! Smoosh them all by typing words using the letters they're hiding under. Hopefully you weren't working on anything important?
Credits
Everything made by me for the Compo!
- Engine: Python with PyGame Community Edition
- Web Port: PygBag
- Graphics: Paint.NET
- Music: MuseScore, Audacity
- Sound Effects: Audacity, SFXR, a bugle I had lying around that I don't know how to play
If you're getting audio issues in the browser version, try the Windows download!
Also, I'm making a real game!
It's a deckbuilding roguelike with a unique, geometry-based resource system similar to my LD52 entry, Fallowtide! There's not a Steam page up quite yet, but you can join the Discord server by clicking the banner below.
Ratings
| Overall | 1th | 4.625⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2th | 4.552⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 4th | 4.5⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 2th | 4.552⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 13th | 4.458⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 5th | 4.313⭐ | 50🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 2th | 4.532⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 13th | 4.261⭐ | 48🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 7🗳️ | 9🗨️ |
such a fun game i love the messages ^^ im not a great typer heres my score
Here's a recording of my run. Great game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGwz1HOuWIM
Had to laugh when the first letter was shown.
~~and I sure am glad that I recently got a new keyboard or this would have unlocked a new fear haha~~
Really cool entry!
I enjoyed every single bit of this game. It's a real solid game. Super nice graphics, it makes your brain work. I would have loved it to track the high score to brag about with other players, if I really have to find something missing :wink:
Very well done!
This was the score for my first run, I look forward to challenging any other highscores that pop up :P
The upgrades that allow you to make longer words are extremely useful, almost necessary imo.
Fantastic work!
Really awesome work once again. I look forward to your submissions every Jam, and you knock it out of the park every time.
This game is just... amazing. Seriously, it's incredibly polished with fantastic art and music. The concept of a typing game with ants on the keys that you have to kill was surprisingly satisfying to play. Top-notch work!
"Kiosks" is now one of my favorite words. High score --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuddhZScWxo
I've always liked your submissions since 11th Hour, and I have to say you continue to impress me and I continue to pretty much look up to you and your work. It's always fun seeing what you have in store for a jam and reading your follow up posts. Excellent job!
[P.S. Thanks for the inadvertent shout-out of our game Wink and the Fae with your gif showcasing your game haha]
This was one of my favorite games, although somehow I got this score on my second run and have gotten worse results ever since 😅
The only thing that stops the game from being perfect is that it still gives one round of "choose an upgrade" at the end, when the upgrades won't do anything (although the fact that one of the upgrades was just coffee tells me that this may be intentional somehow).
I liked this a lot, a typing game with elements inspired by roguelikes is very innovative. I'd pay for a full edition that iterated on this concept. Very well done!
I have to say I kind of expected the game to go on until I lost, in roguelike style, rather than proceeding for a certain number of rounds. But I guess I'm not sure what the lose condition could be, haha.
The way it included the words you typed at the end of each round into a letter was really cute and creative.
Well done!
Pretty excellent! I didn't really understand how points were being calculated but I had a fun time. Or, as I said to my boss, "spooky spooky spooky spooky".
I felt like a bit of a psychopath when my second paragraph repeated the word "killers" a few too many times..
What a bop, loved the intermission sections too
