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#1 Offline Jacques - Posted August 12 2015 - 10:14 PM

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Hi, I'm Martin from Switzerland (although everybody call me Jacques). I'm a cartooner in everyday life and I've always been fascinated by ants.

 

There are so inspirational, from a design point of view and from their organisation and roles. A couple of years ago we gathered with 3 friend and decided on making a video game about ants. So we went out to find a Lasus Niger queen that we could take care of during the production of the game, unfortunately the first attempt was successfully so we reitered the process this year and it seems like the eggs are now a few days away from hatching. Which is great for a beginner like me :). And this time i'm keen on taking good care of them so I will probably need to seek advice here.

 

Besides we've been studying ants and their behavior and organisation for the last year for the purpose of our game. I look forward to finding more inspiration on this forum as we are really keen on adding things that a genuine when we design stuff for ants. We already have the honey-pot ants , the legionary ant or the panda ant (though they are rather wasp or velvet antsfeaturing in the game for instance :)

 

Yeah i guess so it is, cheers!

 

Martin


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#2 Offline Subverted - Posted August 12 2015 - 11:41 PM

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Welcome! Your game sounds interesting.

 

Good luck with your L. niger, sounds like you have things pretty well handled so far


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#3 Offline William. T - Posted August 13 2015 - 4:23 AM

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Hey there and don't stop with the questions! We are happy to answer them and we even have some suggestions in mind for an ant game, since you are not the first to try to make one.


Edited by William. T, August 13 2015 - 4:23 AM.

Species I keep:

 

1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 


#4 Offline Trailandstreet - Posted August 13 2015 - 6:38 AM

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Salut.


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:hi: Franz

if you find any mistakes, it's my autocorrection. it doesn't speak english.


#5 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted August 13 2015 - 8:37 AM

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Welcome!



#6 Offline LC3 - Posted August 13 2015 - 5:46 PM

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'Ello and Welcome to the Forum. Not a lot of ant games on the web glad to see one using ants as an inspiration for a game :)



#7 Offline Jacques - Posted August 13 2015 - 10:16 PM

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Thanks everybody :)

I'll be bombarding you with question about ants then to come up with a good game hopefully ahah but I'll create a post later to talk more about the game.

My first baby lasius niger was born this morning by the way  :yahoo:



#8 Offline William. T - Posted August 14 2015 - 4:02 AM

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Thanks everybody :)

I'll be bombarding you with question about ants then to come up with a good game hopefully ahah but I'll create a post later to talk more about the game.

My first baby lasius niger was born this morning by the way  :yahoo:

Open the champagne! Having a first worker, especially if it is Camponotus, is very rewarding.


Species I keep:

 

1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 





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