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Ant Trail

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Guide the ant trail around the screen to eat the food.
Make sure you avoid the boulders!


This is my first game! Please be nice to me. :P

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Don't expect this review to be nice

Snake clones never cease to amaze me, they seem to be the classic starting game for people new to flash and this one, like all the others, isn't very good.

My criticisms:
Choice of font - The font just isn't reasonable considering that this game has no references to the medieval or grunge (that's just my interpretation of the font). A plain simple font, even though it would've gone unnoticed, would have been more appropriate for this game.
Shoddy rendition of Snake - Snake actually made vague sense; eat pellets and grow longer. Ant Trail doesn't; eat leaves and get more ants. Also, the boulders were a challenging addition to what would have been an unchallenging game but the added an element of luck which is simple not good for a game you have described as "skill".
Lack of sound and music: Sounds and music are an integral part of the whole gameplay experience and without them, the game is extremely boring. Simply put, music would have made a boring game slightly less boring. However, if you do choose to put music in later submissions, please make reasonable decisions; trance and electronic music, no matter how enticing, don't work for every style of game.

Overall: Congratulations on having a crack at the flash world. Note where you went wrong and use these criticisms to create more and better quality games.

stefisdeadgood responds:

Thanks for your review. :)

I do admit that snake is a very generic first game but there is a reason for that. The tutorials are very easy to find.

I started off with the very basic one. Draw this, draw that, copy this code. After doing this I realised it was just rubbish so set about actually having a go at learning ActionScript 3.0 unlike most of the "shoddy renditions of snake" out there.

Font - I just liked it, simple as that.

Ants - Again, thought it'd be more fun than two different coloured squares.

Boulders - This was more to give me a challenge. I'd never programmed anything before this so I tried to figure out what bit of code did what and make it do something different. I listed it as skill mainly because that's where the collect section was. Collecting food being the main aim of the game. :)

Sound - I realised by the time I'd finished writing the game that it's just snake so it wasn't worth spending any more time learning how to put sound to it, which would also mean learning how to mute the sound. I refuse to write a game without a mute button!

Again thank you for your review, it wasn't as bad as you made it out to be. :P

meh

its ok.. tho i find it based on luck.

several times just after i got a leaf i had a boulder appear directly infront of me resulting in game over.. no matter how skilled u are u would not have been able to avoid it without knowing in advance where the boulder will be.

also please change it so u have to click to submit score.. waiting 5 seconds after every try is a little annoying.

apart from that its a nice twist on snake and decent for a first game.. tho it would be nice if u couls change colour of the ants. i personally find it a little hard to see with the light tan and green backround :)..

2nd on leder board!! goin for first xD

Hahaha

2nd try-1st place&2X better than 2nd place guy :P

Very fast moving trail

The game starts with the ants moving very very quickly. Maybe have "levels" based on time and as the levels increase, you can increase the speed. Also, dropping powerups, like slowdown or destroy the rocks or shorten the trail would make the game more enjoyable.

A nice effert none the less.

Snake with a twist

Well, not original. But since its your first game, I'll give it a rest. Nice try, buddy!

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Sep 3, 2009
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