Hey there! Nice work building something during lockdown :)
I am also tinkering around with wanting to build a zen-management, ant simulation game. https://meomix.github.io/antfarm/ Mine is going in an entirely different direction than yours, but the base idea seems quite similar.
The vision I am working towards is to build a desire for users to check-in for one minute at the start of each day and tend to their ants. There's a lot of directions this could go, though, and it's been tough for me to confidently determine what I'm optimizing for / iterating towards.
I am not the author, I just remembered about this submission. Also, I find it fascinating that there are so many ways to approach building this kind of simulator.
Thanks! I agree, there's a surprising amount of tinkering going on in this space and everyone's got a different approach. I'm determined to see it as a lot of opportunity not a lot of competition :D
I think I am going to go ask r/antkeeping what they think makes ants cool and see if there are more emergent behaviors beyond pathfinding that are relevant.
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