#Insect Kingdom

[calvincell]

After months on months of eager anticipation, I’ve finally purchased & put a few hours into Empire of the Ants on my Steam Deck and been hooked.

The game is an exploration RTS blend that honestly reminds me of a mix of Pikmin & Brutal Legend with their shared active strategy mechanics infused with a gorgeous nature documentary aesthetic that seeps into the art style, graphics and gameplay at a foundational level which genuinely make you feel like you’re playing through the insect kingdom segments you’d see in nature docs like Planet Earth or Monster Bug Wars. All that’s missing is the running commentary of David Attenborough, Morgan Freeman or Werner Herzog; an inclusion that honestly I’d happily pay for DLC of 😄

The Xenofictional perspective of the ants does do a terrific job at immersing you in the mindset of an ant whose personal & colonial survival depends on clashing with a massive world where insects and bugs barely the size of a human thumb, rainstorms & hungry birds are all daunting threats for you & your Sister ants.

And speaking of Brutal Legend & Pikmin, the exploration aspect like them is similarly fun but to play the game means also earnestly engaging with the real-time strategy gameplay all share. Like those games, getting through EotA means getting adept with the plate-spinning style gameplay of building & strengthening units and bases while getting your Warriors or Gunners to battle encroaching hoards of enemies and using your personal skills to bolster said units & keep them alive lest you have to call for reinforcements and possibly fail altogether.

If you feel that sort of RTS gameplay is the type you love like I personally do or at least tolerate/feel you can comfortably handle, then I earnestly recommend giving Empire of the Ants of shot; particularly since the devs also put out a Roadmap outlining a deluge of major content additions in the near future, much of which is aimed towards expanding the strategic side of the game.

And Side Note: Though a lot of the early marketing pushed the angle of the game’s graphical fidelity heavily, the game IMO has been beautiful & still runs easily and fluidly on my Steam Deck assuaging my previous fears that it’d be extremely taxing for my system.

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Theeeee beasts were based off insects that is AWESOME

just doodles them down and put note or thoughts around them. Also too lazy to draw shadow milk cause he’s just the same

(I now know Shadow Milk might’ve been a beetle and silent salt an Ant? Idk bro 😭)

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i was just gonna draw one frame but apparently every frame in this video is my favourite and i had to stop myself at two because tbh the speed at which i drew them frightened me

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Flora & Fauna of Hyrule Posters made by WinterZucca

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Mystic Flour redesign!! Random thing but i imagine her mouth opens up and reveals spider mandibles hehe

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Bumblebee

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Me with most fandoms: yo cute boys??

Me with Kingdom Hearts: YO CUTE GIRLS???

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I've accidentally flown into a few noses. They're hairier than me around these parts.

Dune Tachinid Fly (Germaria angustata)

Northern Europe, Siberia, Mongolia, and Yukon, Canada

Status: Special Concern in Canada

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Since cookies are baked, imagine a human decided to try something unethical and mix insect and cookies and bake them to life. The result is a horrifying insect cookies that is barely sentinent and function like a hive. They are very agressive and is rumoured to be created by some evil god.

This could happen if you also have to remember that there are insect themed cookies.

I don’t know if I’m remembering this right but if they are cookies and they are bug or insect themed shouldn’t have the witches used bugs or insects.

But baker was curious upon seeing how the local witches were making cookies and thought it was easy so they caught a fly and put it into a pot and upon seeing the creature they were grossed and freaked out by it they tried killing it but somehow it made its way into earthbread.

Now the cookies are confused and scared cause what is this creature that’s attack every cookie. Many hoped that their wishes should be heard and help find a way to get rid of this creature. Now baker makes their presence known as think of how Athena send or helped Perseus to kill Medusa, that what you are doing here.

Now the witches didn’t know what you did and lucky for you as you wanted to stay that way. But the cookies worshipped you as someone driven. And yes the cookies don’t know that it was you who made that thing in the first place.

Just know that after helping those cookies you had started some cult and who knows you might check up on them again.

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Angi Wallace, United Kingdom

EISA Maestro Awards 2023

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A Pavlova Cookie stimboard with lots of pinks, reds, and hearts!

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Mermay day 9—Cubism