Hive Rescue: Antomata

Somewhere in a university basement, a forgotten machine is waiting.

Nobody remembers it. Nobody knows who built it, or why. You find it, and you start learning - not from a manual, but by watching, adjusting, and pulling the lever.

Antomata is a narrative data-flow puzzle game in which you operate GEB, a computing machine powered by trained ants. Your workers carry materials through tunnels. They emit pheromones, sense signals, and route information in ways that slowly reveal a logic you have to discover for yourself.

Then the professors show up. Each arrives with increasingly grandiose demands and a decreasing understanding of what GEB actually does. You become the only competent person in the building - quietly routing ant traffic to solve questions nobody should have asked a machine made of insects.

But GEB keeps producing outputs that are a little too relevant. A little too early.

Features:

• 64 puzzles across three acts and Sandbox level
• Two interacting networks: material flow (worker ants) and pheromone logic (signals and control)
• A physical lever that starts each run, because buttons are for lesser machines
• Cryptic output from GEB that accumulates into something that might be a portrait of a thinking machine