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A hobby ant colony simulation built with C# and MonoGame. I'm building this in my spare time, one small milestone at a time. A 2D ant colony simulation/game built with C#/.NET + MonoGame.

The long-term goal is to simulate ant colonies inside player-managed formicariums with silly side objectives, expiriments, small story arc and more...?

The player does not directly control ants or colonies. Instead, the player provides an environment, observes the colony, performs research, earns Ant Credits, and eventually manages multiple colonies and species.

The first species will be Lasius niger (Black Garden Ant) aka Default ant. 

The prototype is very early and rough, graphics are just pixels. For now I am purely focussing on the gameplay mechanics and adding "art" / Graphics later in the project when the foundation is ready and stable.

Press P to show the pheromone paths.
TAB for debug panel (should be open by default)
Right mouse click to place Queen
Left mouse click to spawn ants (+ Shift to spawn 50 aunts)

Any feedback is appreciated and if you find any bugs beside ants... let me know :)  


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Formici v0.3.0 Windows
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Building this as a hobby project so expect to to go extinct at any moment. The current built v0.2.0 is still very bare bones and displays:

  • Colony behavior
  • Foraging behavior
  • Ant pooping all over the place
  • Cleanup ants
  • Minimal player interaction, feeding, cleaning

I will continue to build forth on this prototype and add more mechanics such as:

  • New behavior when danger is noticed
  • Placeable enemies
  • Event system to fire dynamic events
  • Trader window to buy supplies and formicarium parts
  • Experiments for research points
  • Research tree to unlock new stuff
  • Small story arc based on the Trader
  • Goofy items such as “Ant grenade”, Toxins, and other weird items for experiments
  • Build your own formicarium system
  • Graphic updates
  • Possibly, maybe, more ant species and the ability to introduce a second colony in the same formicarium