This is a simple Ant Colony Simulation game written in Python 3, based on the PyGame library. It is largely inspired by previous work of Fabrice Rossi.

First clone the project available on GitHUB under GPL:

git clone https://github.com/orel33/ants

To install Python (root privilege required):

sudo apt get install python3 pip3

To install the PyGame module and other useful modules (user privilege enough):

pip3 install pygame colour bresenham

To start the game:

./main.py

There is a known bug in the pygame.mixer module, which causes high CPU usage, when calling pygame.init(). A workaround is to disable the mixer module, pygame.mixer.quit() or not to enable it, by using pygame.display.init() and pygame.font.init() instead. Consequently, there is no music, no sound :-(

• https://www.pygame.org
• http://apiacoa.org/publications/2003/rossi2003swarn-intelligence.pdf (Fabrice Rossi, 2003, GNU/Linux Magazine n° 51)