

Marketing responsibility has been shared between everyone, which is far from ideal – no project like this can be successful without a good marketing provision, but the developers want to spend their time developing. The team has, until now, consisted of three developers (who are also the owners and company directors) and a community manager. One of the disadvantages of being a small team is that everyone has to be a generalist. Speaking of which… Introducing our new Marketing Content Creator With the addition of our new team member freeing up the devs for work on the 4.x levels, we expect to show you a lot of shiny new things very soon. Outside of this, large amounts of progress is being made on the levels, script and everything else we’ll need to complete to bring fire ants to the game. Expect these daytime predators to be causing trouble for fire ants in the Green Swamp Preserve of North Carolina!Ĭicindela sexguttata from Wikipedia.

Naturally, we want to include some more of nature’s little walking tanks in the undergrowth! The six-spotted tiger beetle Cicindela sexguttata is a common hunter in North America, and these beetles are easily identified by their ferocious-looking mandibles. I’ve heard it said that if you lined up one of every kind of creature that exists in the world, one if every four is likely to be a beetle. Planned Tier 4 Creature: Six-Spotted Tiger Beetle If you want to avoid a mass panic and death among your stranded ants, you’ll need to rescue them! Thankfully, fire ants are adept at using their own bodies to form bridges (as we’ve shown you previously) and sometimes, you might want to build a bridge not to reach new resources, but to rescue stranded colony members. This is thematic with ants being eusocial creatures that cannot survive for long by themselves.

Stranded ants are panicky, and will die quickly if not reunited with the colony as a whole.
