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About AntLife
AntLife is a Free-To-Play mobile game about growing and caring about your own ant colony. It got released by the developer Nishihara on the 23rd of September 2017 and since has gotten over one million downloads on the Google Play Store. It is abount having your own personal ant colony, which its main purpose is to become as big as possible.

Gameplay
The main quest of AntLife consists of gaining more ants. You start off on a little field of grass with zero ants and ten food. Food is the main currency of AntLife, since it allows you to purchase ants by using your ant hill. After buying your first worker ants, those ants will immediatly start working for you. They do this by walking to potential food sources, such as dead grasshoppers or butterflies and taking food from them. The food is portraited by a small yellow dot which is getting carried by the ants to your ant hill. Once there, the yellow dot disappears and your food counter raises by one. The food can now be used to purchase more and more ants.

Enemies
After a while you will have gained enough ants that enemies, such as spiders and bees, will start spawning on your field. Those are able to kill your ants when you don´t defend your ants. The second variant of ants that can be purchased are soldier ants. Those are not capable of collecting food, but can instead harm all the enemies. They have more hitpoints than worker ants, but can still be easily killed by enemies. When the enemie has lost all of his hitpoints, it will die and turn into a food source. This is why enemies are essential to the game, since their food soures are much greater than those from common food sources.

Ants
There exist three different types of ants. The first one, at a cost of two food each, are worker ants. Those can, as said, collect food and bring it to your ant hill. The second one is double the price at four food each, it has the ability to damage enemies. When no enemies are around, it gets useless. The third type of ant is the universal ant, it costs also four food and can do both tasks at once. It can collect food and damage enemies, but it has to be kept in mind that the universal ant is significantlly slower at both of these tasks.

Attacking other colonies
You can also expand your territory by attacking other colonies. This can be done a total of fourty times and will always cost more food, starting at 100 food for the first attack. You will then be sent to a different colony, which always has an ant hill in it´s middle and a certain number of enemies, depending on how far you have progressed in attacking other colonies. You can now place any of your ants that are able to attack next to the other colony, they will then walk into it and start fighting with all the enemies. After killing a few, your ants will try to reach the ant hill and attack it as well. The ant hill has a health bar which slowly goes down as your ants attack it. As soon as it reaches zero, you won and get sent back to your own ant colony. Your territory will now have expanded by a small portion.

Building colonies
There is also the option to create more ant hills. By spending 100 food you can place a second one anywhere on your territory. It will function exactly the same as the first one, but might shorten the way your worker ants have to travel to drop the food, making them more effective. There can be up to five ant hills, each being 100 food more expensive, so placing the fifth ant hill will cost you 400 food. Ant hills can also be removed, even though this will not give you any of the paid food back.

Overview
Ants are the most important thing in your colony. They harvest food, kill enemies and are the thing, that make the ant life function. They can be bought through one of your ant hills and can die by you personally or when enemies are attacking. There are three different types of ants, all having different tasks that they have to do.

Buying ants
Ants can be bought by clicking on the ant hill once. You then have the choice of buying one of the three ant types there are: Either worker ants, soldier ants, or universal ants. By clicking on one of those three options, you will procede to the next step, in which you are being ask whether you are sure to produce this ant. Also, for each ant a little description is given, including its cost. You now can either press "No", which results in you getting sent back to the state, in which you are getting asked which ant to produce. However, if you press "Yes +X", the amount X will get produced, but the menu will stay open. This however only works if your food value is high enough. When your food value is smaller than the price of the ant times the amount you are purchasing, the "Yes +X"-button will be greyed out and nothing will happen. The value X can be determined by the position of the slider. When it is on the left side, you will only buy one ant at a time, which is the default option. The further you go to the right, the higher the value X will go, reaching its limit at the right side at 50 ants. Below the slider there is also the option to press "All +Y". This option exists for faster purchasing of ants, which is especially useful in the late game. The value Y is determined by the price of the chosen ant times your current food. Since in many cases your food value increases while being in the menu, you can often even see the value Y go up in real time. Since the number Y is always changing, the sign also always fluctuates in size, this can also be seen in real time. Y will also display numbers that are higher than 10,000, which is incorrect due to the ant limit being at 10,000 ants. When the button is clicked, the ant value of the chosen ant will go up by Y, except when Y and your total former amount of ants exceed over 10,000. Then you will just get the amount of ants possible. Your food value will lower itself depending on the amount of ants that were bought. Again, after clicking the button the menu will not disappear. When your food value is so low that you can not afford a single ant of the chosen type, this button will just show "All +0". This is not greyed out since you technically can afford it. Clicking it does nothing.

Spawning of ants
After selecting and successfully buying ants, they will now automatically spawn on the ant hill they were bought on. They will all just spawn on the lower left corner of the square the ant hill is standing on and will then immediatly start with their tasks. In some cases, for example when spawning soldier ants without any enemies being on the field, the ants will create nice looking images since they yet have no purpose and aimlessly wander around. This is especially cool to look at on the minimap.

Refunding ants
When clicking on an ant hill there exists also an option to refund ants, directly below the soldier ants button. When clicked, the menu will be closed and on the top left corner a button with the word "Return" appears. On the top of the screen it says "By tapping ants, You can turn them into foods". In this state of the game, all ants will immediatly die when clicked at and will change their appearance to a dead ant. Even though ants can also die through natural enemies, the only way to get dead ants to appear is by killing them by hand. Any dead ant will be a new food source, holding a total of two food. No matter in which position the ant died, it will always lay on the ground with their legs up in the air. The head of dead ants is always facing to the left side. You can also always clearly see which kind of ant it was. If the menu or the "Return"-button is clicked during refunding state, the refunding state will be closed. Ant hills can not be interacted with during this state.

Types of Ants
In AntLife, there exist three main different types of ants, all being important on their own due to the different abilitys. If any of those ants health points reach zero, the ant will die, turn upside down, and turning into a new food source with two food points ready to harvest.

Worker Ant

The most common ant is considered to be the worker ant. It is the cheapest ant in the game at a cost of two food and has the lowest level of health at only five health points. It helps your colony by bringing the food to one of your ant hills. It does that by walking up to any potential food source, grabs one food, which makes the food count of the picked source go down by one. It is noteworthy to point out that they will not go out of their way to get to food sources, they will only go there when the food source is near them. When no food is near enough, they will start wandering around aimlessly. After grabbing, the food is represented by a tiny yellow dot which then gets carried by the worker ant to the nearest ant hill.

Soldier ant

The second ant featured is the soldier ant. It has double the cost as well as double the health than the worker ant, at four food each with a total of ten health points. Other than the worker ant, it is not capable of bringing food the an ant hill, but it can defend your colony against enemys. Every time there is an enemy on the colony, the soldier ant will immediatly go there, no matter how far it is. It will firstly go the the exact Y-level the enemy is at, so they are both horizontically equal. Then the ant will mimic the enemys vertical position. If during this process the Y-level of the enemy changes, the ant will replicate this exact same change, so it can only move horizontically when the enemy is moving left or right. When multiple enemies exist at the same time, the soldier ant will go to the nearest one first. When no enemies are around, it will just aimlessly wander around doing practically nothing. When the enemy has been reached, the ant starts attacking it until the enemy or the ant itself is dead. The attacking comes once a second, starts a little animation and reduces the health points of the enemie that is being attacked by two.

Universal Ant

The third and final main ant is the universal ant, being able to perform both tasks of the two previous ants. It costs four food and has eight health points. That being said, when no enemies are around, the universal ant will just do exactly the same as the worker ant does. When enemies spawn, the universal ant can attack them, but unlike the soldier ant it will not go out of its way to seek the enemies out. Only if the enemy is nearby an universal ant, the ant can start attacking the enemy. This makes them a lot weaker than soldier ants.

Red Ants

Red ants are a special variant of ants since they can not be normally bought in any menu. In fact, they can not even appear on your own colony at all. The look exactly like all the other types of ants, with the only change being that they are red, which gets already subtly pointed at by their name. They only appear when attacking other colonies as even weaker enemies as spiders, which are usually the weakest enemies in the game. But since for new players, attacking to other colonies with spiders being the first enemy, would probably be way to tideous, so red ants got added as the weakest enemy.

Enemies
Enemies are the main harm to your ant colony since they can kill ants. Under certain spawn conditions, the enemies will appear on your colony and will start attacking your ants, which is the only way to make ants loose

Attacking other colonies
You can also expand your territory by attacking other colonies. This can be done a total of fourty times and will always cost more food, starting at 100 food for the first attack. You will then be sent to a different colony, which always has an ant hill in it´s middle and a certain number of enemies, depending on how far you have progressed in attacking other colonies. You can now place any of your ants that are able to attack next to the other colony, they will then walk into it and start fighting with all the enemies. After killing a few, your ants will try to reach the ant hill and attack it as well. The ant hill has a health bar which slowly goes down as your ants attack it. As soon as it reaches zero, you won and get sent back to your own ant colony. Your territory will now have expanded by a small portion.

Building colonies
There is also the option to create more ant hills. By spending 100 food you can place a second one anywhere on your territory. It will function exactly the same as the first one, but might shorten the way your worker ants have to travel to drop the food, making them more effective. There can be up to five ant hills, each being 100 food more expensive, so placing the fifth ant hill will cost you 400 food. Ant hills can also be removed, even though this will not give you any of the paid food back.

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