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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Visuals | #411 | 3.854 | 3.854 |
| Innovation | #474 | 3.244 | 3.244 |
| Theme | #781 | 3.171 | 3.171 |
| Overall | #952 | 2.943 | 2.943 |
| Audio | #1028 | 2.707 | 2.707 |
| Enjoyment | #1120 | 2.780 | 2.780 |
| Gameplay | #1653 | 1.902 | 1.902 |
Ranked from 41 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
You must risk all your money to win more money before the debt collector comes
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Phantom Camera -> godot camera plugin
background music -> The Wax Lyricist -> freemusicarchive.org
How many people worked on the game?4
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Cute game, I could not resist the call of the ant race xD There were a couple of bugs which I didn't mind, I would have liked for the race to be faster since I can only watch it happen. The visuals were really pretty especially the 3D pixel art models. Keep it up!
I see an ant game, I play the ant game.
I absolutely love this idea, ant races where you purchase upgrades and let it play out.
However, the game was very buggy for me (and not just because of all the ants). Ants would fly out of the arena and run off into the great beyond (although this was quite funny). It was hard to follow the races (a top down view and position indicators might have been nice), and the standing at the end didn't seem to make sense, since some of the ants had ran off the arena like I said, and they came first...
So great concept, and actually I loved the art, but sadly I couldn't play due to the bugs
Hello!
I'm so glad you liked the concept!
The ants moving out of bounds was actually a post-jam bug fix haha. They were getting caught on each other at the end of the match so it was softlocking for some people, to avoid adding more content and potentially breaking the rules of "adding content post jam" I chose to make any bug fixes the quickest solution possible (In this case, the ants stopping at the end of the race was delayed, so they would be out of the way.) (Also this was the funniest solution; other potential solutions included turning off collision / deleting ants)
Thankyou so much for the suggestions, I definitely want to take another go at the camera system! And refine the placement system so you can get a better idea of where ants are in real time. I hope you had a great jam!
This is a very interesting concept and I felt it was pretty easy! One thing I noticed is that the player would sometimes get stuck behind the big ant.
Oh no!!! we tried so hard to fix this, thankyou for playing and we'll try fixing this in the post jam update.
No worries, I still had fun playing it!
cute concept and art, i liked that aspect a lot but i was super confused how to play, or if it was an auto racer
It was an auto racer!!
Sorry if we accidentally tricked you with the lack of a tutorial haha
The ants are really cute, love the art !
Thank you so much for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
So funny I love ants and these 3D models haha cool game!
The idea is super fun and I like the old school 3D art style. The camera was confusing sometimes and at the end of the race my bug is always running out of boundary and clipping through the audience.
It would be cool to name our ant so it is not just "Player" when the camera show the names.
There was no sound design at all. No crowd cheering, not UI click sounds in the menu, no funny animals noises. In a game where is no actual gameplay and you just watch an ant running, audio can make the experience a lot better. There was a song though, but it was always the same. When using free music, there is always the chance to just use multiple songs and trigger them randomly, so every race has a new song. The song you used was fitting and cool, but the audio quality was bad, there was an audible noise floor. The recording needed a de-noiser for sure.
I hope you continue working on it after the jam and expand the ideas.
Thanks so much for playing!
Really appreciate the feedback as well, between the four of us we had two programmers and two artist so unfortunately sound design completely went by the wayside. We are looking into taking the game a bit further post jam including adding naming your ant (something we wanted to add but ran out of time lol) so we'll definitely look into adding your suggested sound effects!