antwarfare

ant game were super colones duke it out for supremacy

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antwarfare

ant game were super colones duke it out for supremacy

by oran collins
github.com/wisehackermonkey
oranbusiness@gmail.com
20200605

Was created with the help of ben hem.

Play the Game Online!

Click here to play the game online

or here Click here to play the game online i.imgur.com/W1Tf6XF.jpg


How to play

currently no interaction: so just sit back and watch some ants! :>

Description:

this ant game uses simple rules of how ants move to simulate ant like behavor.

some incomplete explination of behavors:
- ant gets food, come back along the path it came from to deliver food back home
- if and ant finds a path where food was found by another ant, it fallowing the path toward the food.

more photos

Design notes

Overall inital design look

how paths of type: food, fight, explore work:

fighting, path desigions, and food logic work:

walls, and misc

Insperation:

this game was inspired by the ant warfare in this SF book im reading(read if this is the future) called
Children of Time
Novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Also by the visuals from Kurzgesagt's (youtube) video 

The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War … - YouTube Kurzgesagt

and 

The World War of the Ants – The Army Ant - YouTube Kurzgesagt

Links & Software used