GiAnt

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What is one small step for a human, is one GiAnt adventure for an Ant....

Become an Ant in this fun filled first-person platformer from the indie solo developer at 'Wreck Tangle Games'. Roam vast human sized worlds as a tiny little ant, but this is no Ant Simulator! This is an AntVenture! Our protagonist must find sweet delectables whilst being hunted by all manner of creatures, animals and insects!! Spiders, Fly’s, Rats, Wasps, Cockroaches and even humans will stop at nothing to get rid of the ant infestation! Candy isn’t just lying around either; puzzles fill the worlds blocking you from success! Solve the puzzles whilst avoiding, running from or fighting your enemies! Hit enemies with your trusty match stick to make a path to safety!

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You have been nominated as the sweet collecting ant, the most challenging of all food collecting teams, as those fatty humans do not often drop these little delectables. You must roam vast human sized worlds hunting for those goodies that have been littered by man, but not all treasures are just lying around, obstacles and challenges will get in your way at every corner. Plus, you're not the only one looking for food either, while collecting our tiny hero must avoid or fight other insects and vermin who are hunting for the same thing (*and don't forget those pesky humans).

You are equipped with a Matchstick to fight with and your 'Antdar' a natural radar that all ant's possess, this will help you find the next candy piece, power ups and even your way back home. Power ups are scattered around the worlds to help you survive and reach previously unreachable areas! Jumping higher or running faster may come in useful.

So if you think you're GiAnt enough to....

+ See your world from a different perspective – Experience everyday areas from an ant sized height.
+ The Garden, The Cinema, A Nightclub + More

+ Use your “AntDar” to find food, secrets and power ups

+ Destroy enemies with your trusty Matchstick

+ Solve human sized puzzles and conquer mankind’s obstacles

+ Use Power-Ups to escape tough situations
+Super Speed, Super Jump and Invincibility

= Plus so much more

Remember... You may be small to some... But anyone can be... GiAnt

**More Than Just an Ant Simulator, this is an AntVenture**

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*****Please, If you find any bugs (the computer kind, not the cockroach kind!) please either write on the forums for help, or send an email at press@wrecktangles.com Right now Wreck Tangle Games is just one man, and after testing the final build of the game 48 times I have a) nearly lost my mind, but b) squashed many problems in the game BUT c) I KNOW there are more! So do let me know, and I'll look into any issues right away! And update the game ASAP[/u]

Thank you!!

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Not recommended1h played35 found helpfulMay 2016

NOTE: This game was given to me by the developer for review purposes. This did not influence my review in any way. [h1]========================================================== ---------------------------------------OVERVIEW------------------------------------- ==========================================================[/h1] GiAnt is a first-person ant simulator from a new solo indie developer. You play Adam, an ant who is unfortunately miscategorised as a girl and given the job of a worker ant. The game starts with you attending a brief session at ant school before "The Captain" sends you out into the world to collect candy. Outside of the nest you need to avoid other insects and spiders while you explore and collect enough candy to be allowed back into the nest. Unfortunately I'm not sure what happens after that, as in over an hour of play I didn't manage to collect any more than two pieces of candy before the game crashed or I fell afoul of the aforementioned other insects and spiders. [h1]========================================================== ----------------------------------------QUALITY------------------------------------- ==========================================================[/h1] Graphics - Graphics are a very mixed bag. Ant models are nice and have a bit of character, and the nest is sort of good in a cute way. Once you venture outside, though, you'll see the graphics really start to shine, with a great blurry effect put to fantastic effect on everything beyond a certain distance away. When you stop and look at it, it's really very impressive. Unfortunately, when you move there are some weird texture distortions and flickering, and shadows tend to flicker in and out in some areas as well. Couple that with some variable-quality close-up models and scenery, and a general lack of activity and feeling of emptiness in the game world, and after the first "Wow!" moment, I rapidly found myself much less impressed. The sprinkler, too, is terrible, and I still can't work out how a blowfly is hurting me! The cubist reflections in the kitchen cupboards are pretty weird as well (see the screenshot in my profile). The UI is mostly good, although the use of a default Unity UI font for the candy and lives counters looks very out of place. Loading screens, too, are pretty terrible: just a plain black background and two-tone grey bar in the middle of it that fills up as the next area loads. It's disappointing and quite jarring, taking away from the immersion of the game. Graphics options are fairly straightforward and offer a fair bit of choice for optimisation for lower-power systems. Sound - Sound is fairly minimal, but okay. The lack of any consistent background music or audible environmental sounds makes the world feel even more empty sometimes, but triggers for music and some world interactions kick off some interesting changes. The game includes voice for the ants. This is mostly well done, although the "Ow!" sounds get a bit painful to listen to over and over again. Similarly, the annoying high-pitched spider sounds and buzzing of the flies when they're near are too loud and grating. There are no sound options to adjust volume of music, environmental sounds, and voices, and the mix is a little off, making it impossible to get the right volume all the time. I missed a fair bit of the speech due to nearby insect sounds or a sudden musical trigger, and environmental sounds (except for other insects) would be good if they were a bit louder. These should all be separately adjustable for user preference. Gameplay - The game plays like any other first-person game: WASD for movement, space to jump, and mouse to look around. You're unable to attack or defend yourself, or even interact with the environment, though, so you'll not be needing mouse buttons any time soon. The aim of the game is to wander around collecting candy, which you locate on the minimap (sorry, "Antdar") in the bottom right. It's not always reliable, though, as the map is in 2D, whereas the candy can be above or below you as well. As you explore you'll encounter (overly) aggressive flying insects (that look like blowflies) and spiders, as well as other creatures on occasion as well. Other ants will talk to you, while environmental creatures will just ignore your passing. The game also includes powerups, but these aren't explained and they don't seem to do anything except to add some green misty stuff to the area directly around them for a short time. When I collected one once it seemed to scare a hostile insect away, but the next time it did no such thing and I was killed while walking into and out of the powerup trigger. Hostile spiders and insects are annoying and have extremely poor AI: they just make a bee line (haha) for you all the time and keep following around until they've killed you. There's no way to fight them off or escape, especially since the powerups seem to do nothing the majority of the time. To make matters worse, the game plays like a typical gravity-based FPS, completely ignoring the fact that you're an ant and should be able to climb pretty much anything. The best example of this is probably the candy that's 'hidden' at the top of the tree under which your nest is located. Rather than just running up the tree, you have to find a weird walkway that seems to be made of timber boards running up and around the tree like a corkscrew, but even that is on an angle and you'll find yourself getting stuck between it and the tree as your ant insists on staying perfectly horizontal. It's a real shame and is probably the biggest problem with the game, as it completely ruins the suspension of disbelief. It's very easy to become stuck on the terrain, and there are some crazy clipping issues as well, making it possible for you to walk through some stones and then become stuck between them and other terrain. Finally, there are a number of little niggling problems: - poor writing in the small amount of text that's included (the wrong 'their', 'occational') - the game often crashes if you minimise it while playing - there are no visual damage indicators when you're being attacked, so if you've turned down the annoying sound when insects are chasing you, you'll often be killed before you realise it - sometimes the game doesn't realise when you've died, so you have to quit to the main menu and restart to try again - the ant bridge mentioned as a cool feature is really just a static part of the map (see my screenshot), rather than a cool dynamic feature of ants helping you - the Steam page says it has achievements, but it doesn't seem to (at least not yet) [h1]========================================================== -------------------------------------PROS & CONS------------------------------------ ==========================================================[/h1] Pros: + very impressive 'long range' graphical effects (esp. outside) + creative use of size differences + mostly entertaining voices + an interesting idea, by a solo developer Cons (see above for more): - you're an ant, but you're stuck on the ground and can't climb anything - poor enemy AI that just doesn't give up - a lot of terrain and graphics problems - some annoying sounds and no volume options - a very empty-feeling world that's just not much fun to explore [h1]========================================================== --------------------------------------CONCLUSION----------------------------------- ==========================================================[/h1] I'm sad that I can't bring myself to recommend GiAnt. I wanted to love it, and for the first few minutes I did. But after that all of the game's faults started to appear, and there are many. With a little bit of work, GiAnt could be a great game, and if it were in Early Access I would probably recommend it. But it's now been released and it shouldn't have been; it's unfinished and it needs a fair bit of work to reach its potential.

Not recommended1h played11 found helpfulDec 2016

GiAnt is a very messy and boring game, that obviously tries to be silly, but just ends up not being very fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNUocPZXXxQ I liked the idea of playing as an Ant, and so I picked this up without looking too much into it. After playing the game for about 10 seconds it was evident what bad quality I was getting. This is the experience you'll have in the first minute playing the game: The first level starts you off in a garden. You spawn under some grass, and there are signs next to you with awful colored text that is just annoying to read. There's also a big transparent green cube with a handgun in it. That's right, a pistol. A pop up will appear telling you that you can equip your matchstick with C to fight off enemies. Why can we not just fight with our pincers? Ok whatever, the game is just trying to be funny, it's fine. Suddenly you hear a high pitched squealing sound. A badly textured spider will come charging towards you unwarranted, and you try to flail your matchstick at it. The enemies in this game are very hard, so it could very possibly kill you right there. Or you might hit it about 20 times and it'll finally die. As you explore the world you will find a lot of nothingness. Sprinting between big landmarks looking for something interesting to do. You will gather dozens of enemies chasing you at once, because you can't be bothered to fight them as they are hard, and the combat system only consists of mashing the left mouse button and hoping they die soon. So you just outrun them (Very easily) and move on. The objective of the game is to collect all 100 eggs within a level, which will then unlock the gun that is available in that cube that I mentioned. There's one gun per level. Although I fail to see the point in really using them, as by the time you'll unlock them, you'll be done with that level as you've spent ages running around a boring wasteland collecting stuff. Oh, you can also skip all of that and just buy these guns as DLC on the store page. Yea. Things are badly animated, or not animated at all. Enemies make so much annoying noise, the voice acting is bad, and so very quiet. There are no subtitles to help with that. You can buy the soundtrack as DLC although I didn't notice any music in the first two levels that I played, so I'm not sure what exactly that could include. I quit at some point during the first level, and then went to the main menu and clicked continue, and got dropped into the second level even though I hadn't unlocked it yet. Most importantly, the gameplay is not fun. Everything feels stiff, unfair, and uninspired. I don't like saying this, because I do think that the developer tried to make a funny little game, and just failed. That being said, there's a lot of stuff that is unpolished and comes off lazy, so I can't help but feeling anger ontop of that pity for having the nerve to sell this for money. The exploration, secrets and collectibles are not fun to discover. You can't really understand the story or dialogue even if you tried because of the quality. The combat is lacking so much, the enemies are so hard and not fun to kill. I feel bad saying that there's unfortunately, nothing redeeming about this. I hope this review was helpful!

Recommended2h played6 found helpfulAug 2016

«GiAnt» - концептуально-занимательный платформер от первого лица с элементами экшна и решением небольших головоломок. Вы играете муравьём по имени Адам и пускаетесь в увлекательное приключение, изучая локации, местоположение вкусных зёрнышек и конфеток, и, разумеется, мир с точки зрения среднестатистической букашки. Ваша главная задача – собрать определённое количество запрятанных на разнообразных уровнях конфеток и донести их в свой муравейник. Хочется предупредить сразу людей, обожающий высочайшую детализацию и невероятный уровень реализма. Если вы включите эту игру, у вас пойдёт из глаз кровь. Банально потому что это «Unity», где чаще всего ресурсы для усовершенствования графики пускаются в ущерб игровому процессу. Да и не стоит забывать, что данный продукт разрабатывал один человек, зачем-то назвавший себя «студией». С другой стороны, если к самой графике нет претензий в связи с имеющимися фактами, то вот это может вас расстроить – графика выглядит ощутимо хуже, чем в трейлере на странице магазина и в ранее выходящей демоверсии. Пропали некоторые объекты, эффекты блеска замылились, кое-что уменьшилось и убавило в детализации. Не знаю, с чем это связано, но факт есть факт. Несмотря на то, что игра претерпела изменения и в положительную сторону в день релиза – это очевидно, но о таком просто нельзя умолчать. Если же оторваться от графики, на деле нас ждёт весьма себе завлекательный игровой процесс, где нужно использовать окружение, чтобы куда-то забраться, что-нибудь сдвинуть, решать простые задачки и просто поражаться масштабам повседневных вещей и живых существ по сравнению с вашими размерами. Управление, к сожалению, бывает неотзывчивым, что вкупе с «лунной физикой» приходит к частым нежелательным падениям или прыжкам в те моменты, когда оно вам совершенно было не нужно, и наоборот. Задачки с физикой – тут настоящая мука, учитывая её «реалистичность» на «Unity» и то, что объекты могут двигать и ваши противники. Которых немыслимо много. По поводу боёвки, выглядит это так – вначале у вас есть зажжённая спичка, которой можно отбиваться. К сожалению, она совершенно неэффективна, так как любой враг в бою один на один запросто собьёт вам половину здоровья, прежде чем умрёт. В демке это была проблема, так как там вас разрешено было кусать лишь 5 раз. Здесь же у вас здоровье, которое со временем регенерируется. И может на словах всё это не слишком страшно, если бы не тот факт, что враги респятся постоянно! Убив одного паука, через несколько секунд на его место придёт другой или прилетит муха. А если вы их не убьёте, то очень скоро они соберутся в маленькую армию, которую вы вряд ли победите без использования багов, и то не факт. И если б можно было ковырять их, отбегать, восстанавливаться, и снова ковырять, но, к сожалению, пока вы носитесь туда-сюда, появятся ещё враги, которые примкнут к рядам ваших противников, вследствие чего их просто невозможно будет остановить! Спасает, пожалуй, то, что они не могут бежать быстрее вашего спринта, так что если спринтовать по карте – можно вполне успешно избегать встреч с недругами, которые не слишком умны, чтобы взбираться куда-либо за вами. Возможно, эта проблема решается бонусным оружием, которые выдают за сбор всех 100 зёрнышек на уровне, но мне не хватало терпения найти всё… Но ведь в такой игре не боёвка главное, правильно? Важно ощущение, которое испытываешь при исследовании огромных кухонных столов, гигантских офисов с компьютерами и книжными полками, ночных клубов. Забавно то, как с такой высоты наш с вами повседневный мир кажется огромным, холодным и бессмысленным. Приключения Адама хоть и не переполнены сложными многогранными сюжетами, обладают здоровой долей юмора, как в комментариях самого главного героя, так и среди других муравьёв в своём муравейнике. Этот мир действительно стоит изучить, подлезая в каждый уголок, в который можно подлезть, в поисках чего-то увлекательного и интересного. И пускай не всем придётся по вкусу что-то подобное, свой народец точно получит массу впечатлений от прохождения. Хотя картинку при загрузке действительно стоило бы поменять… она стрёмная… у меня уже неделю кошмары…

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