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"I spent a month or two last year making a simple game inspired by the bit-generations games. I wanted to make something where the visuals and interface were simplistic and nonthreatening. [...] Whether you win or lose is more dependent on what level you're playing on than it is your skill, so I consider it a failed game. I could probably salvage it a bit, but I'm not sure it would be worth it. [...] The best thing to come out of it was the Random Plaid generator, which I really love." -- February 15, 2009

Noyb's remarks: "Each of those hundreds of specks is a single ant, crawling erratically over your screen. Every level is a plaid texture, a playing field of colorful, visually asymmetric rectangles. The player rests in a single cell and can immediately jump to any neighboring cell. Resting in place causes the current cell to flash, killing every ant within its borders. The goal: to exterminate at least half of the ants before time expires.

"For an abandoned prototype, it's not a bad start. This is a game about observation and navigation, the player prioritizing attacking cells that are both nearby and populous. This focus on embodying a space while remaining aware of enemy density reminds me a bit of Every Extend Extra, except trading chain reactions for controlled attacks of spatially limited impact.

"The developer is right to note the erratic difficulty curve, stemming from the disproportionate importance of larger grid spaces to killing ants. Get a pattern with lots of small, thin rectangles and each attack will hit less ants at once. Since every ant has the same effect, what you have is a degenerate strategy made more or less effective depending on the level layout, but applied against a win condition that remains invariant to the full scope of possible levels."

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