Hive Havoc by Tkap1
An ant infestation is taking place! Harvest them before they overwhelm you.
Buy upgrades, level up, and spawn your own drones to help you fight!
Your goal is to reach 50000 resource from harvesting ants.
Controls
| Action | Key | |------------|----------------------| | Movement | WASD or Arrow keys | | Dash | Space or Right click | | Options | P or Escape | | Zoom | Scroll wheel |
You can hold CTRL or SHIFT to buy 10 or 100 times as many upgrades respectively
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![20241007<em>201453.mp4</em>snapshot<em>01.02</em>[2024.10.07_20.16.59].png](/game/img?e=LD56&gid=95015&u=raw/121/c5/z/66780.png)
Development
Design & Programming & Audio: www.twitch.tv/tkap1
Art: www.twitch.tv/coffee_lava
Made in C++ with a custom engine
| GAME | https://pakt.itch.io/hive-havoc |
| Link | https://github.com/Tkap1/nutframe/blob/ld56/examples/test/test.cpp |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/hive-havoc |
Ratings
| Overall | 294th | 3.8⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 112th | 3.979⭐ | 26🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 513th | 3.34⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 357th | 3.9⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 668th | 3.48⭐ | 27🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 599th | 2.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 861th | 2.333⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 812th | 3.196⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 31🗳️ | 5🗨️ |
Only feedback is the currency between the hive and lower bars was a bit confusing, i didn't realise i was spending my main "goal" currency. Might have helped having an icon or something to show the connection between the two.
Great job.
I do like the weapon effects.
The num keys should work for numpad as well.

I would love to see some music and some different sfx for the enemies. At the end of my game it sounded like a mechanical keyboard mashing hahaha
The custom C++ engine bit is very impressive and the leaderboard was also a nice addition! Awesome submission
The only thing that annoyed me was the free upgrade popup constantly interrupting me, but it's fine. I really liked all the keyboard shortcuts on the bottom. Well done, great game!
It's well balanced and has well thought out gameplay core based on the "risk and reward" rule.
Good polish, shooting is satysfying and vfx is pleasing to look at and.. it's just fun to play really. Outside of that replayability is huge! Even during first playthrough you can already see there is a lot of strategies to try.
I was also impressed by the amount of details that went into UX. SO MANY keybinds but also tutorial toggle, option to show timer, leaderboard, time is paused on the free reward popup so it's not stressful, UX work here is just great!
This is a fantastic entry and I had a lot of fun playing this. Good job! :thumbsup: