A downloadable game for Windows

The Ant Queen has requested your assistance in preparing the ant hill for the upcoming winter! Control an ant swarm to bring back enough food to survive the cold. Explore the world beyond the anthill, collect resources, and recruit different types of ants to grow your swarm!

Use your ants to build bridges, cut down webs, and break boulders to unlock new areas to explore. Look out for crickets though, or you might just become dinner!

 Each type of ant has different specialties and needs different resources.

  • Carpenter ants carry items and build bridges. Your standard worker ants!
  • Leafcutter ants help speed up your swarm and cut down vines and webs.
  • Fire ants break boulders and will attack enemies to keep your swarm safe.

How will you build your colony? 

Download

Download
Colony ExpANTsion - Game Jam Submission.zip 24 MB
Download
Colony ExpANTsion - Fixes.zip 24 MB

Install instructions

Download and extract zip to play!

Controls

WASD - move
E - interact
Esc - pause

Right click to spawn more ants. This is just a dev hack, but it's useful if you want to skip the grind.

Credits

Created for the GMTK Game Jam 2024 by:

  • Clay Records (Programming, coordinating)
  • Sam Records (Programming, level design)
  • Noah Blum (Programming)
  • Molly Newquist (Programming)
  • Alyssa Jerke (Art and music)
  • Luke Stevens (Programming)
  • Madeline Newquist (Queen Ant art)
  • Prairie, Quincy, and Lily (Emotional support)
  • Mackenzie Danielle (Jokes and craft services)

Assets

Grass tiles: Asset pack from itch, but we can't find it anymore. Still looking!
Music: Pixabay (https://pixabay.com/music/build-up-scenes-marchando-march-147849/)

Comments

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Very cool game. The art is nice. The concept is cool and well executed. Good game.

Thanks!!