Notice: The "Load Game" button has no functionality at the moment. Instructions for starting out: Press new game. Click on the red text to progress the tutorial. When prompted, press the temperate card Click on the Royal Chambers. Click carpenter ant Click forage Click carpenter ant again Use arrow keys to move, collect food when it appears. The blue line is your pheromone trail. If enemy ants touch it, they will lock onto you and try to attack. You can attack other ants by running into them, but if they hit you from behind, then you will lose food storage. If you touch a fire ant, you will lose food storage no matter what. When your food storage runs out, you will return to the nest, just click on the carpenter ant, forage, and carpenter ant again to go back to the open world. If you don't have enough food to purchase another worker, then you'll have to restart.
10/31/25 Beta 0.45: Added multiple foraging sites that are randomly selected. 10/10/25 Beta 0.44: Added "Black Market Unlock" as a new purchasable item in the shop. It currently has no function, but will soon! 10/9/25: Beta 0.43: Halloween update on the way! Here's a tiny, related drop in the meantime. Added ghost ants as a new enemy. They are tiny, and can fade in and out of sight, like a ghost. They also have more sophisticated tracking than other ants. They drop no food, but will drop money. Be careful though, if they get to you first, they'll steal your hard-earned food! 12/3/24: Beta 0.42: Added the auto-forage system, which is unlocked after purchasing twig ants. Only twig ants can be used for auto-foraging. Auto foraging does not provide money. 12/2/24: Beta 0.41: Added big headed ants as playable characters. 12/2/24: Beta 0.4: Added functionality to the shop. Added twig ants as playable characters. 11/20/24: Beta 0.32: Added fire ant queens. Added new resource called "money". Money is collected through attacking invasive ants (for now this only includes fire ants). Bonus money is given for attacking queens. Money will eventually be used to buy stuff. Added shop (currently has no functionality). Added Shop Guidebook (also currently has no functionality). 11/19/24: Beta 0.31: Added acrobat and fire ants back into the game as a basic enemy. Fixed bug where you couldn't replay the game. 11/18/24: Beta 0.3: Completely restarted project from scratch, features from previous betas will be reworked later. 3/29/22: Beta 0.2: Released some new enemies, winter ants and ghost ants. Winter ants are slower than pavement ants, but are rarer and give more food points. Ghost ants are also rarer and give more food points but less than winter ants. They move faster than pavement ants. 3/26/22: Beta 0.1: First release! Already working on beta 0.2!
