age of ants send your worker ants to gather resources…

　　amass an army of bugs to defend your queen...

　　build your ant empire and conquer the lawn! a pico-8 demake of age of empires II, featuring:

　　* cutting edge graphics – 128x128px 16-color display

　　* 1 map with 4 possible starting locations

　　* up to 2 allied AI opponents with 3 difficulty modes

　　* 9 unit types, 8 buildings, 12 tech upgrades

　　* up to 99 active units per player

　　* aoe2 controls & behaviors

　　* savefiles¹

　　* original 8-bit soundtrack

　　* wololoooo!

　　defeat the enemy queen to win!

　　this game is playable on:

　　desktop with mouse (best experience) - download belowmobile/tablet - click "run game" abovehandheld consoles (requires pico-8) for non-desktop, when the game first launches, open the pause menu and select the appropriate controls mode.

　　¹savefiles won't track the state of your units, which means they'll all be idle when the game is loaded - you'll have to reassign workers back to farms, resource gathering, and construction. also, any tech upgrades beyond the first level of repeatable upgrades will be forgotten, along with units currently in production (and their resource costs and population allocation). side effects may include, use at your own risk, consult your doctor yadda yadda

　　desktop tutorial

　　(video link)

　　touchscreen tutorial

　　(video link)

　　handheld tutorial

　　(video link)

credits

　　morgan3d's p8pathfinder (modified for caching and approximating unreachable paths)musurca's fast dist()gruber's explosion 18 sound effectcarlc27843's pxaviz for code compression hintssiege engineers' aoe2techtree.net for unit statsthisismypassport's shrinko8 for code compressionwolfe3d for the idea of a screenshot-based savefilethe pico-8 community! see this project on the lexaloffle (pico-8) bbs

　　???? watch me beat 2 hards: