Intelligent insect societies have inherited the earth following the extinction
of humanity. Characters are man-sized social insects – ants, termites,
wasps, or bees – reacting to, exploring the relics of, and misinterpreting
their human predecessors. Since the bugs are newly sentient they don’t
have any sense of history. They don’t remember that humans viewed insects
as inconsequential – when they weren’t exterminating them as pests.

The game’s title is from an anecdote about the biologist J.B.S. Haldane,
who, when asked what one could infer about the creator from studying
nature, is reported to have replied: ‘an inordinate fondness for beetles.’
The phrase also stands in for the insects’ romanticization of humankind.

I wrote this game in 2007 for a design contest, inspired by art works showing insects

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