The release is fullscreen but seemingly only 1080p, which messes with my desktop since I have a 1440p monitor. Is it possible to have it run in a window, or switch to the native resolution? I'd rather not mess with the source code myself, as I've had little luck compiling C-related code for whatever reason.
I have an idea for a possible part 6: the ability for colonies to branch out and create more queens and therefore other colonies. This will lay the foundations of "colony reproduction", a totally other aspect to ants. I would also like to add the idea of giving the ability for corpses to be food, suggested by notus42 to give better reward for war
@@Zedryx69 in nature, this behavior is dependent on species. Most ants fight with child colonize, some ants form global colonize who rage war over several continents.
Project is really going great- this was a great way to implement the soldier ants. Shows that perfect balance required between gathering resources and destroying the nearby colonies. Seems like location plays a big factor.
Yeah, from what i saw, there are a few factors in play, they are: 1. How close are the nearest resource points? 2. How many are there? 3. Are there any bordering colonies? 4. Do they have access to more resource points than you do? 5. Are you close to the middle / have a clear path? There are probably more, but in my opinion these are quite important, if not the most important.
@@MostScaryCat Yea, I noticed that proximity to more resources than the closest colony is a very strong advantage. Didn't think about the clear path but looking again it does make a significant difference.
@@MostScaryCat I found that those who branched out and discovered new resource piles earlier tended to win, especially those that established strong connection lines by the time fighting begins
"thanks for wathing" 8:53 xD Amazing vid, it is incredible to see how surprising are the outputs are differents depending on the map and the number of enemy colonies. I wonder what are the perfect parameters for a colony to position itself well in relation to its environment
This would make for an amazing mobile sandbox game. Just a simple UI where you can tab to place different assets such as food, walls, or different ant spawns and the ability to speed up or slow down time would make for a really simple but fun game. You could even put it for a small price to make some profit! Edit: a game similar to what I described above is called "Robot Colony"
@@onmomentum the only game I can think of is "Pocket Ants". Played it for a while, quite fun. You actually play as an "ant commander", so it's quite different from this but quite the same I guess
You can compare strategies: one colony will consistently produce fighters, which means less workers but be more prepared once you are attacked. The other colony will only produce fighters when needed.
I see, the denser food in the middle acts as a decisive resource point. Whomever gain's control of it first has a massive advantage because it guarantees stable population growth, and once they have the larger population they can fight off any attempts from other colonies to take that food. In the three colony battle this allowed the yellow colony to win from a disadvantaged starting position population wise.
Very true through the entire video I saw two main deciders for who wins and that is isolation & least distance to the most amount of food(usually this would be the mid). Although on the fourth blue won because it was able to take hold of some uncontested piles of food by taking out red and it had a pretty short path to the mid.
I love how in the second round blue and red were relentless on killing each other while yellow was jacking the last of the food and becoming unstoppable.
Would you ever consider publishing and selling this somehow? The idea of generating maps with food and terrain for ant colonies to expand and fight over seems a reasonably compelling one for an indie game. I've rewatched this like 5 times now, just looking at all aspects of how the ants behave and how they react to their environment and how heavily that determines their success against a now opposing force. Especially interesting was the interaction between food signals from different factions, like how if one side had food signals laid down, past or present, they would draw workers there, often turning the tide in nearby battles against the opposing mainly-soldier force. All in all, super cool simulation, I love your creativity and the simple readability of your sim.
IRL ants are able to utilize the corpses. We can include this process into the food chain: ant workers drags the dead ants to the hive, which gives them "food material" to born a new ones. [sorry for my bad english]
Really cool how the red ants just found another way to the food in the middle when the blue ants blocked one access point in the first simulation. Extremely basic AI making itself look smarter than it is. Good work on this.
At first I came across this, was like, "yes. I like this." And then binged all the ant stuff that came before. Imma now go look at the rest of your content
Lesson 2 : postponing combat allowing a long and late war to happen was a mistake made by cyan and green anthills. A long war meant a war with a new strong enemy that would take over the world. Ahah France vs Germany during WW1, a long trench war that would allow USA to effortlessly take over the first march of the podium. :p Now we can understand why Germany chose the blitzkrieg at the beginning of WW2 ;) All this thanks to your 4 vs 4 anthill simulation. Once again, thank you.
This an absolutely amazing simulation of irl ants, very accurate, though there are a phew things missing to make it nearly perfect. Full applause from me.
The mechanics of this look similar to a Galactic Colonization game I'm currently preparing to make (GDD/Game Design Document right now)- once the documentation is near complete I'll finally start coding it- made a few games with the GDD being in my head and realized that I really need to plan more in advance so that's what I'm doing now. Very cool, nice work!
I assume there is not limit for your innovative way of thinking. Impressive work and remarkable results. Thank you for inspiring the great community. Keep fingers for your goals.
This is awesome! Just an idea for possible improvement: from 7:53, the cyan soldiers seem to be trapped, i wonder if there was a way to lead them home after they killed the yellows
From what i notice, some soldiers follow to enemy markers when the area is empty. Each time an ant dies the ant that killed it will make “no more enemy markers” which will allow the markers to dissipate faster
some ideas I have: one: non-ant enemies non-ant enemies can be from a wasp to an antlion and can either have their designated spawn areas or just spawn randomly. when an ant finds one of these non-ant enemies, it will do the same as when it finds an ant from another colony. two: different ant species: Argentine ants: these ants are able to create a new allied colony, these colonies can assist each other in wars, as well as a couple other things. carpenter ants: these ants can actually slowly break down a barrier (I would suggest making two types of barriers, one can be destroyed by carpenters while the other cannot) if ant figures out that they can shorten routes by doing so. Army ants: these ants workers are a hybrid between a worker and a soldier, and are stronger than most other soldiers (they would probably cost quite a bit more food to make a single ant, they can also completely move the nest if they feel that there are no longer any food sources that can be quickly accessed. Crazy ants: these ants are more likely to break from existing lines and can get a few food areas being harvested at the same time, they also make much wider trails and can make workers slightly faster, and soldiers slightly slower. there are many more ideas for other species, and you do need to make sure that everything is balanced (aside from the fact that army ants can completely annihilate entire ecosystems without much trouble in nature) Three: parasitic mites these mites may grab on to a VERY unlucky ant, this mite will reproduce at least once before killing the ant, this will drop all mites that were on the ant to the ground, where they can be picked up by more ants, these could easily DESTROY a colony, unless handled properly
Also just curious, do you have any plans of making this a public thing that people can play, instead of this being something done on only a youtube channel, making this a public simulation/top-down strategy game would certainly bring me and others joy :D
unbelivelble what you can do with programming ... everytime its surprises me somehow ... soon i will be able aswell ... well not thos thingis but none the less
When soldiers find enemy workers, they should turn the enemy worker into a food dot. When two soldiers fight the loser should get turned into a food dot. Dying ants should leave a "fear" marker that repels workers of any color.
A version based on the short story Sand Kings would be amazing, where the colony can evolve different insect parts for foraging and combat. See what evolves to be the apex species. Dead insects turning to dense food would be a thing too.
I realize that I am way late in the game here but I find it amazing that the warrior ants use choke points to control access to food thus starving an opponent out.
Looks like the position of food is the deciding factor in all these fights the colonies with easier to access food grow faster which allows them to win fights and just snowball from there might be worth adding an ability to convert killed enemy ants into food which would have two possible outcomes either the ants with the better start just win harder or it might allow for ants with weaker starts to come back especially in battles with 4 colonies. 90% sure it would just be a win more situation but it could cause some swings in power depending on how first contact between colonies goes
I was rooting for blue in the 3rd simulation and it won. I think It was because teal and yellow fought each other late and suffered while blue killed red early and got all the eco on its side. Hope to see more additions!
It depends on the number of ants in the simulation, on an M1 mac book pro it runs at 75fps with 16K ants and 90fps on an I9 9900K. It is still single threaded though.
I found myself getting really worked up over how in the original 2 colony war, the red ants had such a huge starting advantage. But at the end of the day, anything beyond a perfectly symmetrical stalemate would have a starting advantage for one side or the other, so really I'm just mad at myself for recognizing it too soon and ruining the fun of being surprised.
A bit before the reds died out in the 4th the light blues and the yellows were fighting and wearing each other out. After the yellows just barely won, the blues pushed in and won the match
Could add an element of cooperation: Each ant is initially given an aggressive, passive, attack only if attacked first, etc. policies for interacting with other ants. New ants' strategy is chosen with a distribution that matches the distribution of which strategies bring back the most food. In some cases cooperation might win out but then switch when resources are scarce.
Opinion on overall results: 1v1 basically comes down to which has the closest resources early game 3 match whichever is in the middle gets squashed and victor is again the one that can scale early game 4+ match is which one that can scale the earliest whilst doing the least amount of fighting.
I feel the natural next part is to introduce queens, and genetics. Ants are more likely to attack other ants that are more different than them, but will attack their own kind of push comes to shove. Maybe stats for the ants as well. And if the queen dies the colony can potential make a new queen from an egg, otherwise the hive dies.
Okay what if. 2 colonies, 1 large source of food, in a straight tunnel in the map. Both colonies will deplete the food untill they encounter the other. there is however, a modification, when an ant is killed, they drop enough food to make ant and a quarter, this means that the ants will eventually subside purely through conflict as they collect the corpses of their enemy and gain more and more numbers through that.
Maybe make ants die from starvation or dehydration? I propose that instead of dying when not near a food particle or maybe water particle, they die when not having it in them? These could eat food, or bring some back to the nest. Though, if they eat maybe they could perform trophallaxis. But water could also be a possibility.
You should try making a map that infinitely expands, spawning in other colonies, food, and other things. I'm not a coder but seems like a cool idea to watch, maybe it ends if a hostile ant colony finally destroys your colony like a random map is created, With food, Colonies and dead-end caves, etc and you only see as much as your ants have explored, which means that the map constantly grows, over time Large food sources and larger colonies become more common Just an idea
I have some variable Ideas. 1 Make food randomly spawn on the map. Add large "bug" entities that a certain number of ants have to grapple before killing, like 5 at most. Perhaps Allow for a decision to engage or not whether odds are against them or not.
Another idea might be to introduce terrain difficulty. You currently have terrain that is traversable and terrain that is not, but no terrain that ants can move over at different speeds, or only once they've built a 'bridge' out of colony members. The former is likely easy to make, while the latter is going to be pretty complicated, but would result in interesting new developments.
You are making me want to go play Sim Ant. Wish it had gotten a sequel. Kind of hopping this gets a playable version with underground colonies and a campaign like Sim Ant.
I think it would be cool to see to “danger indicators” implemented. These would be place led by areas where combat is or was recently taking place and would be avoided by non soldier ants
I have idea to add rooms and building . Ants gather new resource dirt they can build walls but these walls can be destroyed by souldier . Three types of rooms store house ( first for food , and twound for dirt ) he worked with markers to store house for food , to store house for dirt . And add ant Queen when die ants is defeat , when it eat food from store house he add a new ant to colony . And add queen's room . Souldiers have high priority level to queen's room when enemies ants nearby they go to queen's room . For all rooms add areas markers .
Woah, reminds me of an io game I play. It basically works the exact same way, theres soldiers, majors, and of course workers. Theres other teams and alot of other stuff.
feels like how humans with different ideologies behave, when meeting each other. pump out more weapons and soldiers. edit: very interesting video :D edit2: like a starcraft match
the bodies of the fallen (be it their own or another colonies) could also be used for food and transported back to their respective colonies instead of despawning
what if you added the ability for food to grow, so if there is a piece of food then it has a chance to make another one or something like that, or really just something so there isn't just a limited supply of food
Published a release for windows here (with the code) github.com/johnBuffer/AntSimulator/releases/tag/v3.1
1000 + 1000 + 1000 + 1000 = 4000
it says its not good
The release is fullscreen but seemingly only 1080p, which messes with my desktop since I have a 1440p monitor. Is it possible to have it run in a window, or switch to the native resolution? I'd rather not mess with the source code myself, as I've had little luck compiling C-related code for whatever reason.
@@shuriken188 I've just updated the release link to add a conf file alongside the executable with configurable window size and mode
@@PezzzasWork Awesome
I have an idea for a possible part 6: the ability for colonies to branch out and create more queens and therefore other colonies.
This will lay the foundations of "colony reproduction", a totally other aspect to ants.
I would also like to add the idea of giving the ability for corpses to be food, suggested by notus42 to give better reward for war
And sometimes they either start to fight, or start to form 'supercolonies', which are colonies with multiple queens.
YES
@@Zedryx69 in nature, this behavior is dependent on species. Most ants fight with child colonize, some ants form global colonize who rage war over several continents.
Aother small possible addition: Corpses become food.
@@Zedryx69 Then you have team competitions not just FFAs
Project is really going great- this was a great way to implement the soldier ants. Shows that perfect balance required between gathering resources and destroying the nearby colonies. Seems like location plays a big factor.
Yeah, from what i saw, there are a few factors in play, they are:
1. How close are the nearest resource points?
2. How many are there?
3. Are there any bordering colonies?
4. Do they have access to more resource points than you do?
5. Are you close to the middle / have a clear path?
There are probably more, but in my opinion these are quite important, if not the most important.
@@MostScaryCat Yea, I noticed that proximity to more resources than the closest colony is a very strong advantage.
Didn't think about the clear path but looking again it does make a significant difference.
@@MostScaryCat I found that those who branched out and discovered new resource piles earlier tended to win, especially those that established strong connection lines by the time fighting begins
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"thanks for wathing" 8:53 xD
Amazing vid, it is incredible to see how surprising are the outputs are differents depending on the map and the number of enemy colonies.
I wonder what are the perfect parameters for a colony to position itself well in relation to its environment
This would make for an amazing mobile sandbox game. Just a simple UI where you can tab to place different assets such as food, walls, or different ant spawns and the ability to speed up or slow down time would make for a really simple but fun game. You could even put it for a small price to make some profit!
Edit: a game similar to what I described above is called "Robot Colony"
Since the project is open source, I guess someone can port it to android.
theres a game like it lol, but you can play it yourself and control things. mobile and online game
@@miniiogaming6954 Name please
@@miniiogaming6954 name please
@@onmomentum the only game I can think of is "Pocket Ants". Played it for a while, quite fun. You actually play as an "ant commander", so it's quite different from this but quite the same I guess
Sounds like it’s going to be a fun one! Love your ant projects keep up the good work.
You can compare strategies: one colony will consistently produce fighters, which means less workers but be more prepared once you are attacked. The other colony will only produce fighters when needed.
Ant ideologies
@@Nugcon Fasticm can be one where they are fast
We've gone from walking to eating to helping to war just like mankind
I see, the denser food in the middle acts as a decisive resource point. Whomever gain's control of it first has a massive advantage because it guarantees stable population growth, and once they have the larger population they can fight off any attempts from other colonies to take that food. In the three colony battle this allowed the yellow colony to win from a disadvantaged starting position population wise.
Very true through the entire video I saw two main deciders for who wins and that is isolation & least distance to the most amount of food(usually this would be the mid). Although on the fourth blue won because it was able to take hold of some uncontested piles of food by taking out red and it had a pretty short path to the mid.
I love how simple instructions when applied on a large scale leads to complex outcomes.
Great work so far, I’m loving how this project is turning out!
"Thanks for wathing" 😂 This was fascinating! I just found your channel today really cool simulations! We need more!
These videos keep getting more and more interesting. Keep up your amazing work my man
whoever has clearest access to the most food wins
the red markers could be used to mark "claimed territory" for each colony
I love how in the second round blue and red were relentless on killing each other while yellow was jacking the last of the food and becoming unstoppable.
I love that at the end you named the chapter "Thanks for wathing" due to your spelling mistake. Made me chuckle a little bit.
Would you ever consider publishing and selling this somehow? The idea of generating maps with food and terrain for ant colonies to expand and fight over seems a reasonably compelling one for an indie game. I've rewatched this like 5 times now, just looking at all aspects of how the ants behave and how they react to their environment and how heavily that determines their success against a now opposing force. Especially interesting was the interaction between food signals from different factions, like how if one side had food signals laid down, past or present, they would draw workers there, often turning the tide in nearby battles against the opposing mainly-soldier force. All in all, super cool simulation, I love your creativity and the simple readability of your sim.
It's open source, you can check the description for a link
fully one of the best videos on youtube - this would be the king of all flash games with an easily editable environment
With 3 or more colonies it should be a "capturing colony mechanic" and keep growing ants with its new team
IRL ants are able to utilize the corpses. We can include this process into the food chain: ant workers drags the dead ants to the hive, which gives them "food material" to born a new ones.
[sorry for my bad english]
Really cool how the red ants just found another way to the food in the middle when the blue ants blocked one access point in the first simulation. Extremely basic AI making itself look smarter than it is. Good work on this.
Strong nostalgia for playing SimAnt on my family’s IBM Windows 3.2 back in the day
At first I came across this, was like, "yes. I like this." And then binged all the ant stuff that came before. Imma now go look at the rest of your content
8:50 "Thanks for wathing" is actually pretty funny, I didn't even notice at first untill I looked at the timestamps
Lesson 2 : postponing combat allowing a long and late war to happen was a mistake made by cyan and green anthills. A long war meant a war with a new strong enemy that would take over the world. Ahah France vs Germany during WW1, a long trench war that would allow USA to effortlessly take over the first march of the podium. :p
Now we can understand why Germany chose the blitzkrieg at the beginning of WW2 ;)
All this thanks to your 4 vs 4 anthill simulation. Once again, thank you.
Incredible! So excited to see this in my subscriptions list!
This an absolutely amazing simulation of irl ants, very accurate, though there are a phew things missing to make it nearly perfect. Full applause from me.
The mechanics of this look similar to a Galactic Colonization game I'm currently preparing to make (GDD/Game Design Document right now)- once the documentation is near complete I'll finally start coding it- made a few games with the GDD being in my head and realized that I really need to plan more in advance so that's what I'm doing now.
Very cool, nice work!
Slang in my national language calls white noise 'ant war'...
Now this quite literally is the true definition of ant war.
I've been waiting for this for ages, and i am not disappointed
Could the ants get "energy" from eating another ant-type's nest?
it already seems like destroying another colony is a big advantage when you get access to the resources, that doesn't seem like a super great idea
applying RTS strategy to this was fun. the second a colony got stable supply and got it's population ahead of the others it was over.
Wow! Simulations like this have come a super long way since the 80's.
this just shows that in real time strategy games, resources and economy is what wins games.
I assume there is not limit for your innovative way of thinking. Impressive work and remarkable results. Thank you for inspiring the great community. Keep fingers for your goals.
At this rate you'll have made a simulation of not only multiple colonies, but the actual ant nests! Now that is something id like to see!
I have never been so lost in my entire life that I decided to watch ants fights
and yet here I am
It's fun to try to call the winner about mid-way through. I called two out of three. I was certain cyan had it, but blue made a major come back lol.
This is awesome! Just an idea for possible improvement: from 7:53, the cyan soldiers seem to be trapped, i wonder if there was a way to lead them home after they killed the yellows
From what i notice, some soldiers follow to enemy markers when the area is empty. Each time an ant dies the ant that killed it will make “no more enemy markers” which will allow the markers to dissipate faster
some ideas I have:
one: non-ant enemies
non-ant enemies can be from a wasp to an antlion and can either have their designated spawn areas or just spawn randomly. when an ant finds one of these non-ant enemies, it will do the same as when it finds an ant from another colony.
two: different ant species:
Argentine ants: these ants are able to create a new allied colony, these colonies can assist each other in wars, as well as a couple other things.
carpenter ants: these ants can actually slowly break down a barrier (I would suggest making two types of barriers, one can be destroyed by carpenters while the other cannot) if ant figures out that they can shorten routes by doing so.
Army ants: these ants workers are a hybrid between a worker and a soldier, and are stronger than most other soldiers (they would probably cost quite a bit more food to make a single ant, they can also completely move the nest if they feel that there are no longer any food sources that can be quickly accessed.
Crazy ants: these ants are more likely to break from existing lines and can get a few food areas being harvested at the same time, they also make much wider trails and can make workers slightly faster, and soldiers slightly slower.
there are many more ideas for other species, and you do need to make sure that everything is balanced (aside from the fact that army ants can completely annihilate entire ecosystems without much trouble in nature)
Three: parasitic mites
these mites may grab on to a VERY unlucky ant, this mite will reproduce at least once before killing the ant, this will drop all mites that were on the ant to the ground, where they can be picked up by more ants, these could easily DESTROY a colony, unless handled properly
Also just curious, do you have any plans of making this a public thing that people can play, instead of this being something done on only a youtube channel, making this a public simulation/top-down strategy game would certainly bring me and others joy :D
That one cyan ant went ahead and won the battle against the whole blue ant army
unbelivelble what you can do with programming ... everytime its surprises me somehow ... soon i will be able aswell ... well not thos thingis but none the less
Man this ant war thing is a great tool for checking out initial map balance in resource distribution.
really great work, the "thanks for watching" at the end is really cool !
You mean thanks for "wathing" :D
I could watch these all day. Love it
I was supporting dark blue! They made a pretty nice comeback
irk lol!
Yellow looks to be the best color for the colony since it conrasts nicely with black backgroud
This would make the coolest wallpaper engine background
When soldiers find enemy workers, they should turn the enemy worker into a food dot. When two soldiers fight the loser should get turned into a food dot. Dying ants should leave a "fear" marker that repels workers of any color.
how do u add more then 2 colonies?
A version based on the short story Sand Kings would be amazing, where the colony can evolve different insect parts for foraging and combat. See what evolves to be the apex species. Dead insects turning to dense food would be a thing too.
I realize that I am way late in the game here but I find it amazing that the warrior ants use choke points to control access to food thus starving an opponent out.
Looks like the position of food is the deciding factor in all these fights the colonies with easier to access food grow faster which allows them to win fights and just snowball from there might be worth adding an ability to convert killed enemy ants into food which would have two possible outcomes either the ants with the better start just win harder or it might allow for ants with weaker starts to come back especially in battles with 4 colonies. 90% sure it would just be a win more situation but it could cause some swings in power depending on how first contact between colonies goes
I was rooting for blue in the 3rd simulation and it won. I think It was because teal and yellow fought each other late and suffered while blue killed red early and got all the eco on its side. Hope to see more additions!
I have a feeling this man is gonna be the next Mikan.
Is this particularly taxing on the computer at all? Wondering how complex and large this can be made
It depends on the number of ants in the simulation, on an M1 mac book pro it runs at 75fps with 16K ants and 90fps on an I9 9900K. It is still single threaded though.
@@PezzzasWork That is pretty amazing. Pretty good testament of SFML's capabilities as well if you use their drawing API.
I found myself getting really worked up over how in the original 2 colony war, the red ants had such a huge starting advantage. But at the end of the day, anything beyond a perfectly symmetrical stalemate would have a starting advantage for one side or the other, so really I'm just mad at myself for recognizing it too soon and ruining the fun of being surprised.
A bit before the reds died out in the 4th the light blues and the yellows were fighting and wearing each other out. After the yellows just barely won, the blues pushed in and won the match
The Final battle with 4 ant colonies went Stalingrad, everyone in the same place, fight until one army is overwelmed with soldiers…
GO BLUEEEEEEEEE
Ma bois pulled that mad comeback on the last round.
ikr lol
I thought they were going to lose
Could add an element of cooperation: Each ant is initially given an aggressive, passive, attack only if attacked first, etc. policies for interacting with other ants. New ants' strategy is chosen with a distribution that matches the distribution of which strategies bring back the most food.
In some cases cooperation might win out but then switch when resources are scarce.
Civ 6 style
Great video!
I'm always glad to wath (8:53)
I enjoyed wathing. I will wathe the next one. Glad I wathed it.
Opinion on overall results:
1v1 basically comes down to which has the closest resources early game
3 match whichever is in the middle gets squashed and victor is again the one that can scale early game
4+ match is which one that can scale the earliest whilst doing the least amount of fighting.
6:50 red and blue says a lot about war
7:50 later on, cyan and yellow have a war which is why blue comes out on top
It just keeps getting better and better
I feel the natural next part is to introduce queens, and genetics. Ants are more likely to attack other ants that are more different than them, but will attack their own kind of push comes to shove. Maybe stats for the ants as well. And if the queen dies the colony can potential make a new queen from an egg, otherwise the hive dies.
Thanks for wathing! Joke aside, you are an inspiration.
Okay what if.
2 colonies, 1 large source of food, in a straight tunnel in the map.
Both colonies will deplete the food untill they encounter the other.
there is however, a modification, when an ant is killed, they drop enough food to make ant and a quarter, this means that the ants will eventually subside purely through conflict as they collect the corpses of their enemy and gain more and more numbers through that.
One idea might be to have dead ants work as food. Though it would probably lead to serious snowballing
Idea: have the worker ants try to avoid the to enemy markers and other colonies' markers so they try to avoid the other colonies as much as possible.
Maybe make ants die from starvation or dehydration? I propose that instead of dying when not near a food particle or maybe water particle, they die when not having it in them? These could eat food, or bring some back to the nest. Though, if they eat maybe they could perform trophallaxis. But water could also be a possibility.
You should try making a map that infinitely expands, spawning in other colonies, food, and other things. I'm not a coder but seems like a cool idea to watch, maybe it ends if a hostile ant colony finally destroys your colony
like a random map is created, With food, Colonies and dead-end caves, etc and you only see as much as your ants have explored, which means that the map constantly grows, over time Large food sources and larger colonies become more common
Just an idea
those last 3 teal ants were valiant
I have some variable Ideas. 1 Make food randomly spawn on the map. Add large "bug" entities that a certain number of ants have to grapple before killing, like 5 at most. Perhaps Allow for a decision to engage or not whether odds are against them or not.
Another idea might be to introduce terrain difficulty. You currently have terrain that is traversable and terrain that is not, but no terrain that ants can move over at different speeds, or only once they've built a 'bridge' out of colony members. The former is likely easy to make, while the latter is going to be pretty complicated, but would result in interesting new developments.
This makes me think of epic wizard duels for some reason.
You are making me want to go play Sim Ant. Wish it had gotten a sequel. Kind of hopping this gets a playable version with underground colonies and a campaign like Sim Ant.
I think it would be cool to see to “danger indicators” implemented. These would be place led by areas where combat is or was recently taking place and would be avoided by non soldier ants
this should become a idle/active game... epic
I could watch this all day.
I want a strategy game based on this
I want to try recreating this in Bevy, I've wanted to learn it for a while and this seems like a perfect fit
I've just started learning Bevy and had the same thought. Did you end up getting anywhere with this?
There it is! The good video i was looking for!
Great job!
it's like a black hole that eats stars
When luck looks like strategy. Great sims!
I'd love to see a starcraft or age of empires style commentary on this video XD
Me cheering go yellow in my head The whole time!
can u make a tutorial on these ant simulations about how u get them to run so fast and smooth?
Reminding me of Empires of the Undergrowth
I have idea to add rooms and building . Ants gather new resource dirt they can build walls but these walls can be destroyed by souldier . Three types of rooms store house ( first for food , and twound for dirt ) he worked with markers to store house for food , to store house for dirt . And add ant Queen when die ants is defeat , when it eat food from store house he add a new ant to colony . And add queen's room . Souldiers have high priority level to queen's room when enemies ants nearby they go to queen's room . For all rooms add areas markers .
i like the little beam the ants create
I think that instead of having a circle you should have a queen ant that lays eggs and so there would be a need for workers to lay the eggs
Woah, reminds me of an io game I play. It basically works the exact same way, theres soldiers, majors, and of course workers. Theres other teams and alot of other stuff.
Whats the name tho
what 11 year old me sees: a bunch of ants on the ground
what the biologist sees:
Way more interesting than documentaries
feels like how humans with different ideologies behave, when meeting each other. pump out more weapons and soldiers. edit: very interesting video :D edit2: like a starcraft match
the bodies of the fallen (be it their own or another colonies) could also be used for food and transported back to their respective colonies instead of despawning
Great stuff! Maybe add an indicator on population graphs, what the proportion of each type is?
what if you added the ability for food to grow, so if there is a piece of food then it has a chance to make another one or something like that, or really just something so there isn't just a limited supply of food