Myrmidon

A small pitch we made for a colony management game. Simply the barebones of the nest segment of the game.

Extract the entire folder and run "Myrmidon.exe" to play.

Click the blue "Castes" circle to assign ants to each job. Ants are assigned as a proportion of your entire colony. Castes:

• Anthill - Ants will take eggs from the queen to the pupal chamber for development.
• Forage - Ants will collect food from known sources
• Explore - Ants will search for new food sources

Ants will consume food periodically from your stash; if there is not enough food, they will die.

Click on the Food Sources button (green "route" icon) to see discovered food sources. The further away a source is, the longer the journey there and back takes. The more dangerous a food source is, the more likely you are to lose Workers (and the more Majors you'll need if you want to protect them).

Click the Worker or Major buttons (ant heads on bottom right) to assign existing eggs to pupate into each form. Forms:

• Worker - Can collect food. Vulnerable to predation.
• Major - Does not collect food. Protects workers from predation.

Game is a prototype created in a week. It may be unpolished or buggy. I am aware that the behaviors/imagery are not representative of true ants; we wanted to capture as much as we could of what the final game would feel like, so we mixed and matched traits.
Ideally, the final product would have a diversity of species and behaviors (leafcutters, slavers, honeypots, parasites, symbionts, xenobionts), as well as the ability to see above ground.