And at the same time, they're dropping pheromones. Once they find food, they'll harvest it and start carrying it back to special storage rooms in their nest. They have a home where they actually sleep, and they actively scout to search for food - they're not programmed or scripted to go directly there. They built on these ideas to give the ants natural behaviour patterns. The dream was to add a trail of ants going to and from a food source, so the player stumbles across it and sees ants going one way without food, and going the other carrying food in their pincers. The ants were perfect to add movement and life because they're curious, and friendly at first. Brennecke co-ordinated with senior programmer Brian MacIntosh to revamp the AI, after reading lots of papers about AI, and virtual world games like The Sims. Around this time last year, there was still a concern that the world was too static. So, I ask Bennecke, if I was to follow an ant going about its day, what would I see?īrennecke grins. The team wanted the first encounters to be fun, and to build a place where you feel like you can explore. Everyone already has preconceived ideas of what an insect's behaviours could be when a new one is introduced in the game. So in game, they'll notice you, and come over to investigate, and there are little animations like the ants tilting their heads, and the aphids leaping in surprise. So when you encounter ants, you have an intuitive sense that they're curious, that they explore and forage for food. The key wasn't to make them act exactly as they would in real life, but to use that existing familiarity players have. The insects specifically helped with that. We had an opportunity to add more of a dynamic simulation element, where a lot of unexpected things could go on." I always felt like the worlds are pretty static. Brennecke elaborates: "We were looking at the survival genre as a whole, and what new things we could introduce to it. Each creature has its own behaviour, and seems to have its own thing going on whether you're there or not. When you see an ant, it's not just a case of "there's a monster".
While Grounded is, technically, about surviving at tiny scale in a the jungle of a suburban back garden, the star of it is of course the wildlife, and a lot of that comes from how much personality each insect has. That's not all I asked him about, and I'll have more to share next week, but this article today is about mostly about the ants. So you can probably imagine how excited I got at the prospect of interviewing its lead designer, Obsidian's Adam Brennecke, about the ants. In any case, I'm rather fond of the game, and have attacked my own friends for daring to menace its ants, as warned. Please direct all inquiries and comments to insectidentification AT 's been less than a month since ant-bothering shrinky garden survival game Grounded entered early access, but in the current era, three weeks could mean anything between a day and four hundred years. When emailing please include your location and the general estimated size of the specimen in question if possible. By submitting images to us () you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Site Disclaimer as it pertains to "User-Submitted Content". Material presented throughout this website is for entertainment value and should not to be construed as usable for scientific research or medical advice (regarding bites, etc.).Please consult licensed, degreed professionals for such information.
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