Have they tried SimAnt?
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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Australia needs all the lawn mowers they can get!
Watch out for the antlion pits!
Oh god I'm having flashbacks, I forgot about the antlions!
The game gave me arachnophobia with the fucking close up of the spiders
Well that’s a unique way of doing it, but seems like it’s working so why the hell not. I wonder if AOE4 would produce better results? The images look like AOE2, but it only says AOE. I guess AOE2 is the real original one in everyone’s mind lol
They actually used AoE2, fwiw. It's debatable whether the game was actually helpful when they also ran tests with actual ants or if they're just (very successfully) using the gimmick for publicity.
It would probably be better if they could simplify the game down to just circles with the same unit AI. And then they could have various environments programmed as drawn in like water, vegetation, and what not. Don’t know if that would change anything, but they could probably simulate larger group dynamics with this.
I always liked Empire Earth...
Kinda dissapointed its not SimAnt. Then again, maybe that had the wrong goals. Still, you trade bodies with the spider and go to town on those other ants.