Colony

A top-down, god-mode ant-colony sandbox. Hundreds of ants stream from a central nest, forage for food, and haul it home — laying two-channel pheromone trails (HOME-scent + FOOD-scent) that decay and diffuse over a 192×192 field rendered as a live heatmap through a custom surface shader. Strong trails recruit more ants, so efficient paths self-organize with no central planning.

Play

• New Colony to begin. It's endless — your score is total food delivered.
• Tools (bottom bar): Place Food, build Wall barriers, Erase, or Move Nest — click on the ground.
• Sliders tune the colony live: population, deposit strength, decay, sensor angle/reach, wander.
• Top-right: pause / 1× / 2× / 4× sim speed, toggle the heatmap overlay.
• Settings: volumes, overlay hue scheme (two-hue / colourblind / classic heat), ant-count cap.
• Your best score, colony parameters, and placed layout persist — use Continue.

Built as one self-contained world-component: the pheromone field, instanced ants, the custom heatmap + ant shaders, the god-mode tools, and the full zui UI.