Virtual Ant Farm for your Desktop


	Virtual Ant Farm for your Desktop
rj3sp
7-11-2008 3:12 PM
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ants, virtual, toys, desktop, bandai, insects
rj3sp says:
The Ant's Life Studio from Bandai in Japan is a virtual interactive ant farm for your desktop. It let's you create colonies of ants who build, create, maintain and survive in 100 different types of nests.
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