This would provide a great higher-level challenge as they'd be 'infiltrating' enemies for the player to deal with that could slowly pick off parts of their colony. Suggestion from my mother - ant spiders, which mimic ants in appearance and have front legs that they raise if spotted to mimic antennae.Likewise, flipping the idea behind Rising Tide (perhaps with a different core threat) and relocating your own colony would be a cool 'protect the objective' mission starting point. In terms of mission variation, I think at some point a build & destroy mission taking on another colony directly would be fun.I'd change it to a more colour-based visual, where an outer hexagon around the tile has the six bars coloured according to how much 'support' the tile is getting from each direction, and the centre has the level-flags and maybe an X/8 number to show how many more support-grades are needed (although there might be a neater way of doing that too). I think the tile upgrade stuff bombards the player with too much info.In the Rising Tide level, my ants didn't seem to be able to gather properly from the fish, they just milled around down there.At present I think it'd be too easy for a new player to assume that EOTU was actually a sort of mad science game from the way things start. I imagine this is coming, but had I not known how the thing was meant to work I'd have found the start a bit confusing - not so much in terms of the actual controls, which are really nice and intuitive, as the overall setting - one of EOTU's biggest selling points is that it has really nicely researched actual creatures in it, and so I think you need to make it clear early on (and ideally as part of the voiceovers) that the formicarium is a kind of contrivance that functions as a base/home camp and that they will soon get some more natural-feeling games. Needs more info/intro when you start your first formicarium.

Quote from: Jubal on December 23, 2017, 11:58:36 PM Ooh, that's fantastic - ditto the above post!Ī few feedback points on the game at present:

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