I’m making a game called Leaf Cutter Tycoon, before the request, here’s a summary of the game:
You are an ant. Period, no I’m joking but that first part is true, you are a(n) leafcutter ant, also known as Atta Texana [1] you are trying to grow a tall tree so you can get leaves, and build your fungi [2] you are the queen ant, so you are slow - but you hatch eggs (buy sentrys to auto decomposes leaves) so you are powerful too. When you decompose a leaf, you get water, which is used to grow your trees [3] Now you might be wondering, "where do they build their fungi? Well, they grow it in their (underground) “nest.” which you dig! when you reach 100 water, you unlock a “build your colony” and “dig nest” upgrade. the “build your colony” upgrade gives you worker ants, and the “dig nest” upgrade gives you a pickaxe for 10 seconds to dig your nest. That’s about it…
Now I need you to make lore, add on to the game, and give me ideas for the lobby (off topic?)
Be as creative as you want, no limits! If you make a contribution that I decide to put in the game, I’ll put your gimkit/forum name in the lobby.
That's about it! -Iain
I hyped up when I talk about ants.. so Im being a bit cheeky ↩︎
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My favorite kind of ant’s! (Im a bug lover)
You could do a energy bar where if you run out of stamina, you can eat food to gain back some energy and continue on your way. But if you dont have any spare food on you, make it so they can answer some questions to get food and or energy.
finally somone who gets me, my favorite is trap-jaw ants (Odontomachus Bauri)
anyway, that’s kind of already built in but I put in the game that you can only be outside and getting leaves during the day and you build the base during the night. [1]
I don’t want this to turn into pets go, so no random outcomes - I’m only taking 3 ants into consideration… (like you give me ideas for ants, I choose 3)
Hi, ARMADILLO here. Turtle is posting for me (thanks turtle) because I’m silenced. Anyways, here are my ideas. First one, when you build the nest, instead of having one preset nest, it gives you a pickaxe and lets you carve out a certain amount of dynamic dirt. Maybe not for ten seconds though. That’s not a lot of time. My idea is that its a permanent upgrade, but only some is breakable
Next, I think you should add a mechanic where you can become a worker ant and find food and stuff
hmmmm maybe I can make the game host/random person the queen, and the rest the workers? and yes you carve out dynamic dirt, I also changed 10 secs to 30.
look at post 6, I said night is 30 secs and night is when you go into the base and build/excavate/anything else
AAaaa friendly reminder that the idea-catalog does quite exist, currently having a nice 44 topics of many ideas for you to use, and you can look in ideas that has a WHOPPING 2000+ topics! So, if none of the suggestions that are put into play today for you, yes you, Mr Ovo_Iain, don’t quite match your game, you can go on ahead and browse on through those tags!
With that passive-aggressive mess out of the way, time for a few ideas for you! Eeeenjoy!
Ants sleep for around 4-5 hours in a 24 hour timespan. Queen ants sleep for around 9 hours. Ants also have naps periodically throughout the day. Maybe as an ant, you have to take naps throughout the day, and since queens take more than a worker, you’ll be sleepin lots, and it will make the game a lot more longer, since you wont constantly be grinding like a little sweat.
Very rarely, you can have a little disgusting Cheeto finger grainy coughing child try to step on your colony. If it does actually do damage, you have to skip naps to fix it, which will mean the next day, you’ll have to take 2 extra naps.
Ants may sound lazy for always sleeping, but they can carry more than 5x their weight! Fun fact for anyone else making some ideas. Keep it in mind their nature’s body-builders.
we love our help topics that appear more than guides (I found 7 guides at least [none of them have pictures])
Maybe, you can make it that you have to collect larvae from the nest and use them to make more nests! Leafcutter ants use their larvae as a glue to keep together their ‘hives’ I guess. (we love kurgezast)
the fungi?
the one that makes them climb up a tree then bite down and then…
THE FUNGI BREAKS OUT OF THEIR SKULL AND GROWS A STALK OUT OF THEIR HEAD!!!
which spreads fungi into the air only to end more ants
Not completely sure, maybe you could have a zone that the ant climbs into when affected, then it activates other zones below it. And yes that murderous and thoroughly creepy fungi that makes them grow mushrooms out of their little ant brains >:3
