Developer posts and news about this game.
Official v1.0 Release Available Now! Hey all, I took the past few weeks really polishing up the code behind the scenes, making it ultra stable, ultra slick. This is in addition to the smattering of new goodies throughout the experience, and some nice text and UI clean-up. This is
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is Leaving Early Access in August Hey all, I want to do a devlog on my current thoughts for Desktop Ant Farm Simulator. As I've been tinkering with Update #10, cleaning up text issues, adding another dozen lofi tracks, a new font option, etc, I've reali
Hi all, The Jukebox update is here! This one doesn't have a lot to explain. I added 12 new Lo-fi tracks by artist Redlight Chill, and added a new "now playing" banner that pops in when you are in the ant farm and a new track starts. So you can see the song name and artist of the
Hi all, Version number leap time! I was slated to finish this by May 15th. Really dates I put on myself to self-motivate and hold myself accountable. As it turns out, I am done with what I wanted to accomplish. I don't think anyone will complain about me getting these updates out
Hi all, Wanted to generally chat about the path to the next title update, v0.5. Tentatively releasing on Friday May 15th. This patch will be the Stats Update. I want to capture as many stats as possible, create as many systems to catch as many stats as possible, display them all
Hi all, I've got a small patch today fleshing out the expanded view of stats in Idle Mode. This includes displaying 5 stats to the player for Farm information, including two new stats being documented. This is just to give you more numbers to pour over as you develop you ant tunn
Hi all, This is a fairly gargantuan update, the largest by far for this project since it's release. I'm gonna chat about it for a moment and then get to the patch notes. v0.4.0 marks a dramatic level up for the ants of ant farm. They individually store a lot more data and systems
Hi all, Today's patch focused on giving the three purchasable stats in Idle Mode new formulas that were exponential curves rather than linear curves. This is to help control the pacing of an ant farm so that you get to play any individual farm for a suitable amount of time, since
Hi all, Work is underway on the approach to v0.4! There are a lot of changes coming to Idle mode adding a substantial new gameplay loop. To facilitate those changes and make them communicated better, I've put work into a new Idle Mode UI. You can see this below. The UI is perhaps
Hello all! I wanted to detail the work happening behind the scenes as I work towards the next big update. At this point I'm referring to v0.4 as The Ant Update. I went back and forth on what I wanted to do next and landed on doing a gameplay focused follow up to the Camera Update
Update #3: The Camera Update Hi all, We're kicking off the first major version number update today with the Camera Update. Follow up small patches to v0.3.0 will cover a scattershot of feedback and small additions as we build up to the next major update. Let's talk about this upd
The Camera Update - February 20th Hey all, I wanted to communicate the date of the next update which will be a chunky one (v0.3.0). As I outlined in my loose roadmap of update themes, each major update will be a holistic overhaul of a single system, mixed with new content and bug
Update #2: Scattered Additions Hi all, Thanks for making the start of Early Access as great as it has been. I'm not going to be quitting my job or anything, but the support so far has been more than expected out of the gate. Today's patch is laying background ground work on some
Update #1: You Can Pet The Ants Hi all, Wanted to put my best foot forward and push out a little new update. This is my first time doing an Early Access project. I've released two other games on Steam, and one on consoles, but Early Access carries a different vibe. That expectati
Desktop Ant Farm Simulator is Available Now! Hello all! Kyle here. I'm super pumped to release my ant game into Early Access. So let me talk about the ant game, Early Access, the state of the game now, and where it could be going. Digital Ant Farming This is a desktop companion t