Here's an update. The progress is going good. Terribly difficult at times to get the scanline count just right, but other than that fine.

Decided the game would be monotonous if it was just the ant climbing pineapples and nothing else, so I've decided to work on a different part of the game.

I have just begun work on this second part of the game. In it some blueberries will roll past Bob the ant and he'll have to dodge them.

Despite the game having two parts, I think I can cram all the game in a 4k size. I have 2,484 bytes left so perhaps it could even fit inside 2k. We shall see...