Army Ants

As the queen of a budding army ant colony, you need to kill a local spider to ensure the survival of your colony. Collect food, produce more ants, survive, and kill the spider.

Made for Ludum Dare 56 Extra (not finished on time and did not do well).

CONTROLS: Move mouse to edge of screen to move camera Left click to select a unit. Hold down shift to select multiple units. Right click to give the unit an order to move, eat, start gathering food, or attack an enemy. Shift right click to queue multiple orders. Double-clicking a unit selects all units of that type on the screen. Triple-clicking selects all units of that type you control in the game.

All units must eat and are slowly losing health as the game progresses, but eating brings health back. Food is little yellow mounds scattered in the world. Gathering workers will deposit food near the queen. The queen automatically lays eggs that produce more ants (randomly). Ants that are hungry automatically go to nearby food. Press X to go to a hungry ant.

The display shows how many workers and soldiers you have along with the health of the queen. Idle workers are shown as well. Press Z to go to an idle worker.

Control groups are supported; Press Ctl and a number to assign units to a control group. Press the number later to select all units assigned to the control group, and press the number twice to center the camera on the units.

The queen is the most important unit; if she dies, you lose. Press Tab to center the camera on the queen.

You can press C to move the camera to the last place it was before the last camera jump. For example, if you press Tab to look at the queen, you can press C to look back to where you were looking previously.

You lose the game if the queen dies. You win the game if you defeat the giant spider roaming the world. Beware that the spider wants to eat your ants!