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Yea I think that would be a good feature to have. If you are open to more feedback... add some bit of texture to the dirt and sand and maybe a sprite for the f

Yea I think that would be a good feature to have. If you are open to more feedback... add some bit of texture to the dirt and sand and maybe a sprite for the food, I guess this would be not too difficult but I don't know. That would help orient me. I also noticed workers kind of rotating around single pixels like they were stuck for quite a few cycles. Few more ideas: seeds that slowly grow into plants and maybe worms (I love both IRL along with ants and was a huge simants fan growing up).

SeanAnderson 3y ago
Of course I'm open to feedback, thank you for giving it. Yeah, the visuals are super bad, right? lol. It's easy for me to forget when I've looked at them for a while. I'll see what I can do to make them look a little nicer. I'm just hesitant about making them look good and then going a different direction with the game / changing the perspective and needing to throw stuff out. Yeah, so ants do have a chance to slip/fall when vertical/upside down and that allows gravity to pull them off of islands they get stuck on. I still need to introduce a mechanism for making those islands able to be accessed in larger nests, but I don't have any easy/simple ideas right now. I do like the idea of seeds and watching them grow into the dirt. The worms are cool, too, my mom grows worms for fun :) I'll keep those ideas on the list, but I can think of a lot of stuff I want to take higher priority for now.
- peteradio 3y ago
  I didn't catch initially that the ants were confined to the edges underground, perhaps when underground they can walk the full 2d?
  - SeanAnderson 3y ago
    Yeah. I have been thinking about it. It'd require a different sprite visualization and there's some weird edge cases, but it's how SimAnt and others like PocketAnts handle their underground perspective (https://thekingofgrabs.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/sim-ant-snes-27.png?w=640 https://thekingofgrabs.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/sim-ant-s...) There's this game, Oxygen Not Included, that tackles the issue with ladders. https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2019/08/Oxygen-Not-Included-guide-completed-base.jpg https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2019/08/Oxygen-No... I know ladders are immersion breaking, but was thinking maybe ants could form living chains or something, idk.

SeanAnderson 3y ago

Of course I'm open to feedback, thank you for giving it. Yeah, the visuals are super bad, right? lol. It's easy for me to forget when I've looked at them for a while. I'll see what I can do to make them look a little nicer. I'm just hesitant about making them look good and then going a different direction with the game / changing the perspective and needing to throw stuff out. Yeah, so ants do have a chance to slip/fall when vertical/upside down and that allows gravity to pull them off of islands they get stuck on. I still need to introduce a mechanism for making those islands able to be accessed in larger nests, but I don't have any easy/simple ideas right now. I do like the idea of seeds and watching them grow into the dirt. The worms are cool, too, my mom grows worms for fun :) I'll keep those ideas on the list, but I can think of a lot of stuff I want to take higher priority for now.

peteradio 3y ago
I didn't catch initially that the ants were confined to the edges underground, perhaps when underground they can walk the full 2d?
- SeanAnderson 3y ago
  Yeah. I have been thinking about it. It'd require a different sprite visualization and there's some weird edge cases, but it's how SimAnt and others like PocketAnts handle their underground perspective (https://thekingofgrabs.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/sim-ant-snes-27.png?w=640 https://thekingofgrabs.files.wordpress.com/2018/07/sim-ant-s...) There's this game, Oxygen Not Included, that tackles the issue with ladders. https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2019/08/Oxygen-Not-Included-guide-completed-base.jpg https://assets.rockpapershotgun.com/images/2019/08/Oxygen-No... I know ladders are immersion breaking, but was thinking maybe ants could form living chains or something, idk.