#colonies

Clone of simant

Technologies Used

• Javascript
• HTML5 Canvas
• JQuery

Finished

• Created map
• Animate ants
  • Queen ant (big ant)
  • Normal ant
• Select and move ants
  • Left click to select ant
  • Right click to move ant
• Underground
  • Underground map consists of all dirt with tunnels
  • Can create a nest populated with 4 larva
  • Create tunnel to the underground by doubleclicking
  • Ants can create tunnels (currently deactivated)
• Ant AI
  • A-star implemented to let them navigate around obsticles
  • Ants will randomaly move about the map on their own
  • Move diagonally when appropriate
• Canvas Optimiziation
  • Use background canvas for static entities like dirt, rocks, and grass (does not refresh)
  • Use foreground canvas for moving entites like ants and food (refreshes at 60FPS)

To-Do

• Scrolling map
• Create more underground buildings
• Create ant types
• Ant UI to gather food
• Let queen create larva
• Create resource UI
• Set larva type (worker, nurse, soldier)
• Randomly create food on the map
• Create enemy colony and AI

Ideas

• More than just the two colonies in one patch (map)

  • maybe don't even make it patches, instead make it one large world map and you can spread out new colonies

• Add in other types of insects you can play as.

  • Termites
  • Fire ants

• More complex AI

• More dangerous insects/random events

  • Rain, snow, hail
  • Spider attack
  • Magnifying glass attack
  • Lawn mower
  • Trash pile (randomly generated repository of food)
  • Ant lion
  • Birds

• Switch between different ants (soldier, worker, queen, princess)

• Maybe ant levels up longer he lives

• Buy new ant skills for your colony/ant

• More complex pheromone trails

  • Pheromone patch for guarding
  • Path to food
  • Path to opposing nest
  • Patrol path
  • Attack path

• Have to have a larger nest made for a larger colony

• Structures

  • Nursery

  • Kitchen

  • Tunnels

  • Larder

  • Royal Chamber

  • Bunker

  • Fungi Farms

  • Midden Room

  • Outside

    • bridges, leaves, ants
    • roads

• Ant Roles

  • Forager
  • Soldier
  • Midwifes
  • Princesses
  • Princes
  • Patroller
  • Janitors

• Resources

  • Sugar
  • Ant Supply
  • Undigested Food

• Aphid Farm

  • Move to sweeter parts of plant
  • Move aphids under leaves when rain is coming

• Prey

  • Slugs
    • Remove slim with dirt
  • Moths
  • Worms
  • Crabs
  • Cricket
  • Termites
    • Find single, or mound

• Wood ants harvest dried resin - white chunks

  • distributes resin throughout the nest and when they walk on the resin,
  • the medicinal qualities of the resin disinfects the ants

• Natural Disasters

  • Rain
  • Wind
  • Beetle Attacks

• Queen produces eggs

  • set rate for egg production - higher rate = more sugar
  • ants take the eggs to the nurseries
  • nurse ants take care of the eggs

• Nursery

  • set hatch rate for eggs
    • higher hatch speed
      • requires more sugar
      • requires more ants