Ants Long For Combat, Too
Magnant is a charming little indie real-time strategy game in which you control a colony of intelligent, technologically sophisticated ants waging battle against other ant colonies and the evil bees and beetles. It has all the usual RTS tropes--resource extraction, building construction, and real-time combat--as well as a pretty cool version of online play.
It has one innovative and unique aspect, too; virtual "cards" let you build special units or buildings. They're earned through play, and as with a trading card game (like Magic: The Gathering), you never know what cards your opponents will deploy when you play online--which creates a greater degree of variety. Your carefully-planned strategy may be upended or need to adapt quickly when an opponent deploys a special unit you hadn't anticipated.
Pretty neat.
The Developer Says:
Magnant is an epic real-time strategy game spanning in the Ant world. Players are managing the growth of anthills. Starting with minimal resources, players are challenged to build new units, new buildings and collect resources. Players can then build various armies of Ants and slaughter their enemies.
Magnant brings a new concept which may change Real time strategy games concept! Players can collect cards, which enable them to create new units, building or give them special powers. Players may have different cards and so different abiliites when they play online against opponents. In fact, Magnant is a Trading Card Game where players can fight over a real time strategy environment.
Build, train, search, and destroy! Deploy an army of Red Ants and fight for your territory and your colony! Magnant is a world where red ants have taken control over the planet by having developed a state of the art technology. In Magnant, armies of Ants are capable of building advanced weapons, buildings, boats, flying machines, and more. They are capable of using scorpions, butterflys, beetles, and other insects for buildings special weapons and abilities. Test your real time strategy command skills through unique campaign levels and deploy some special ants for fighting against other players. Play with more than 40 unique ants and constructions, battle over ground, in the air or over water in three environments, Ground, Grass, or Ice.