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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
 
The Ant Experiment

Crowdfunding games is all the rage these days. And while I won't post about every Kickstarter project I am made aware of, this one actually looks interesting: In The Ant Experiment you play an ant in an MMO. Apparently only on mobile platforms, unfortunately.

The interesting part is that you don't play a hero, but a simple ant in a colony. All achievements are cooperative and collective, it is all about your colony thriving through your collaboration with other ants. Hard to say how good that will be as a game, but as a social experiment it sure beats most existing MMOs (with the possible exception of ATITD).
- posted by Tobold @ 7:43 PM Permanent Link
Comments:
(snark) I can see it now...

What?!?! *That's* your worker ant spec? It sux. You know you need +5 lifting if you're going to go on the refrigerator raid.
(/snark)
# posted by Blogger Sum Dum Guy : 13/3/12 20:01
 
That's amazing. Just the other day, I discussed cooperativeness in MMOs with a coworker, with the whole "together alone" thing.

It's definitely worth to have an eye on. Though "mobile devices only" sucks.
# posted by Blogger flosch : 14/3/12 09:05
 
Only mobile?! That sucks. Maybe Its time to play some SimAnt again.
# posted by Blogger Jokkl : 14/3/12 12:06
 
Nerf the Queen! Buff workers!
# posted by Blogger Bernard : 14/3/12 12:26
 
I'm guessing it will be available on Flash as well as mobile platforms: "The game will first be distributed online through web download and on iOS and Android. Our approach is multi-platform..."

Here's a bit I don;t like: "As you invite more and more of your friends your colony will grow."

Perhaps not all that original as a social experiment...
# posted by Blogger Gerry Quinn : 14/3/12 19:05
 
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