powercon5 wrote:

How realistic are you going to make the game?

As realistic as possible.

ScriptedAwesome wrote:

powercon5 wrote:

How realistic are you going to make the game?

As realistic as possible.

Well in that case you may want to make a few changes. Such as what they eat, what actions they do, their society, etc.
Or at least make it more certain

Symbolic. It's probably going to be a lot of simplifications for the sake of having a fun, cohesive game. You play as God, minus the part where you can do anything, plus the part where you have total control over the goings on in an ant colony.

There's going to be a special part where you have control over a beehive also.

Food Plant. Your normal food plant. It gets 5 food on harvest (10 seconds)
Grass. It sounds weird, but this is a ‘forest’ to the ants, meaning these are trees in the game. It does nothing. You can clear it out and get more space.
Sugar Drop. These are extremely rare and on harvest (2 seconds) speeds up EVERYTHING by 50%.

I have what they eat. What they do, I am working on planning that out. For society, the structure is already there. Male ants mate with the queen. Female workers do the work. So right now, it is as realistic as possible (in the plans)

Ferociousfeind wrote:

Symbolic. It's probably going to be a lot of simplifications for the sake of having a fun, cohesive game. You play as God, minus the part where you can do anything, plus the part where you have total control over the goings on in an ant colony.

There's going to be a special part where you have control over a beehive also.

sure beehive

YUSS

Ferociousfeind wrote:

BEEHIVE!!

YUSS
this is a joke it is reversed

ScriptedAwesome wrote:

Food Plant. Your normal food plant. It gets 5 food on harvest (10 seconds)
Grass. It sounds weird, but this is a ‘forest’ to the ants, meaning these are trees in the game. It does nothing. You can clear it out and get more space.
Sugar Drop. These are extremely rare and on harvest (2 seconds) speeds up EVERYTHING by 50%.

I have what they eat. What they do, I am working on planning that out. For society, the structure is already there. Male ants mate with the queen. Female workers do the work. So right now, it is as realistic as possible (in the plans)

What do you mean by plants? The queen does not mate with the male ants, a Female alate (the ants with wings) will mate once with a male alate and then start the colony, becoming a queen ant. Also, ants don't tend to chop down lots of grass

Never heard of Carpenter Ants, have you?
And, if not male workers, who is fertilizing the eggs?

Ferociousfeind wrote:

Never heard of Carpenter Ants, have you?
And, if not male workers, who is fertilizing the eggs?

What do they have to do with anything?

A male alate once in the queens life.

Google ant jobs.

powercon5 wrote:

Ferociousfeind wrote:

Never heard of Carpenter Ants, have you?
And, if not male workers, who is fertilizing the eggs?

What do they have to do with anything?

A male alate once in the queens life.

Hmmmm. Oh.

Is this game going to be more like Terraria or Clash of Clans?

I'm thinking somewhat like Terraria.

Bump.

Can we make the tiles for the game hexagonal?

I don't do art, so what does that mean?

like you know how minecraft and terraria have square blocks? I wanted this to have hexagonal blocks instead.

ooooh, I don't know about that

Can you give me an example of what it would look like? It might not be the best for this game.

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