![]() And then the winner will have population booms & busts, then suddenly the queen will die of starvation :o So a few kinks to work out.Īlso in SimAnt, not sure if anyone else noticed, but the Red nest always had a “commander” ant that acted like the yellow ant. Right now, I can speed up the simulation and see the back and forth fight, but one side wins quickly. My current priority is the simulation, I need the CPU nest to perform nearly as well as the human nest. Well not much progress since I first posted, depends on my job how much i can work on it. My biggest challenge right now is to get some good ant vs. I need to start thinking about optimization, especially if I intend for this to run on That’s given me hope that i can do this, since ants/bugs are rigid beings that are easy to model/animate. domain stuff, thanks for the That’s actually a good idea, a good sim needs Ah excellent thanks for that link. Thanks for the feedback everyone, glad to see it at least worked for someone and that their are other SimAnt fans out This is my first real project so I’m fumbling through it, but it does look viable to use pub. Please let me know what you think, and if you have any suggestions/encouragement on actually finishing this (especially sound/music!). Right-click: take action (pick up or drop food/eggs/dirt) (Download the zip and unzip into folder, and run the jar). Will try to get a more robust build soon. The demo may not work for everyone, I’ve tried it on 4 computers, only 2 worked. I’m targeting this for Android, but until I complete the game I’m building in Win7-64 for ease of development. Controls are awkward, etc And there is no sound or music, I’ve got to figure out how I’m going to do that, will probably be my biggest challenge. Besides that, the game is very unpolished and buggy. The player can control an individual ant, and can command the nest to attack the red nest (battles have no animation yet). Eventually one nest will lose out and starve. New environments (house, roadside, desert, etc)Ĭurrent status - The simulation is functioning, and if left alone, the black/red ants will find their own food and tend their eggs.Each species has own traits/special abilities (for example, milking aphids for Black).All aspects of original simulation from SimAnt.I do intend on releasing this at some point, so I will eventually make it less like SimAnt, and more its own game. So I turned my attention to SimAnt, and have been surprised how much I have done with little time on my hands. After creating a base engine for SimEarth, it dawned on me how much work it would be, a hundred or so animated models is not feasible for a solo hobby programmer (with no artistic ability). ![]() Knowing there will never be a sequel for them, I took it upon myself to create new versions of them with updated graphics. While SimCity lived on due to popularity, two great games were forgotten: SimEarth and SimAnt. So my favorite games growing up were the Sim series by Maxis.
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