FORMIDRILL

Explore treacherous depths of the Earth!

Your anthill has just developped a new machine, the Formidrill! It is the most powerful excavator ever built by ants, and your Queen intends to use it to explore deep down! Come aboard with her and try to survive whatever is waiting for you down there!

A nervous narrative real-time tactical game where you must think fast to allocate your worker ants to the right functions of the drill to fight back against angry worms and prevent overheating!

How to play

Formidrill is a nervous narrative real-time tactical game. As you go down into the earth, you must fight against worms and control the drill's internal temperature.

• Fighting worms: place ants in the gun rooms and shoot worms with your mouse. Be careful, the left cannon only shoots left, the right cannon only right!
• Controlling temperature: the more you go, the faster the temperature will rise! Place ants in the cooler room to bring the temperature down.
• Keeping your ants alive: more ants mean more actions. Remove your ants from a room before it is attacked by a worm so it is not eaten alive! If you loose one ant, that may happen, watch out for new eggs laid by the queen, they need your workers' attention to hatch!
• Some more surprises arrive later in the game, no spoilers here!

Remember: keep cool, be aware, look everywhere for signs of danger!

Assets

Everything in this game has been made in the course of Ludum Dare 57, including:

• Gameplay mechanics
• Graphics
• All musics and sounds
• Shaders

Exceptions :

• Fonts
• Our logo splashscreen (Taboulé Recipe)

Tools

• Game engine: Unity
• Pixel art: Krita
• Music: FL Studio

Changelog

v1.4

Patch 1.4 after Ludum Dare:

• Add beeping sound for gauges
• Reduce weapin cooldown
• Cap temperature increase rate

v1.3

Patch 1.3 after Ludum Dare:

• Add a "Click here" icon to improve ergonomy
• Fix endgame (bugs & balance)
• Fix depth display on Game Over screen
• Fix ant animations (weapons room & egg)
• Fix text bubbles overlapping interaction

v1.2

Small fixes during Ludum Dare.

v1.1

Small fixes during Ludum Dare.

v1.0

Original game release during Ludum Dare.