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AntCamps

A small underground management sim.

AntCamps in-game: the first ants get their jobs
The story

Everything starts with one queen. Feed her and she lays eggs, eggs become larvae, larvae become workers, and workers need jobs: foragers, nurses, diggers, soldiers. Everyone eats every day, the long rain is always on its way, and now and then the council meets to pick a doctrine that changes how the colony works.

It began as a single HTML file called Myretuen and was rewritten into a proper project with a game engine in plain TypeScript, kept apart from the interface so every rule can be tested with a seeded random generator.

There is also a print-and-play paper version, in case the power goes out.