Plague Doctor by Rocketship

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made by Rocketship for LD36 (JAM)
Heal hordes of diseased as a plague doctor in a medieval town.

You have equipped yourself with the latest Plagueproof™ protective gear, a cane and some medicinal herbs. Facing you are a 100 citizens of a town suffering from the black plague epidemic. Can you free the city from this blight or will you join a long list of corpses who tried and failed before?

CONTROLS
Arrow keys - moving
Z - Cane smash
X - Medicinal bottle
C - Healing flash

** CHANGELOG **

Fixed a HORRIBLE bug that wouldn't show "you win" when you win
Also fixed text not showing in certain places

Feedback

Elit3dGaming
30. Aug 2016 · 01:28 UTC
Managed to heal 104 people and was able to complete the game. At the end you should add some sort of game over screen. I liked the game play, sound, animations and graphics to the game. Well done!
joemid
30. Aug 2016 · 14:13 UTC
Cool art and solid game mechanics. I'd play again and keep playing! Great jam!
CyberStarLight
30. Aug 2016 · 17:04 UTC
Hooray! I won!
and I got to beat all my patients with a cane, 10/10 good medical treatment, thanks obama.

I enjoyed playing your game, it's just the right level of hard, it took some time getting the bottle arch right, but maybe I should have used the flash more, though it's less fun.

The sprites are crisp and fitting, I liked the doctor outfit with his blowing robe, good job on that.

I wouldn't recommend using the WASD keys as it is MUCH harder to use the attack keys of "ZXC" right below them. I would have even disabled the WASD unless you put other, right keyboard side keys to go with them.

overall the game is very amusing with the animations of the happy people being cured, well done.
Pikas96
30. Aug 2016 · 19:30 UTC
Sprites and animations are cool. Gameplay too. I felt a bit overpowered the second half of the game, but I enjoyed it anyway. Some variation in the diseased would be great.
Good job!
Traf d-Lo
30. Aug 2016 · 19:59 UTC
This is a great little game, I really enjoyed it - well done!

Tiny bug still? I'm pretty sure I got the win message at 97/100 cured - was on 95 when I did the healing flash, curing 2 and leaving 3 on screen, next thing it was black screen with message.
rjd_gamer
30. Aug 2016 · 21:12 UTC
Really Fun Game, especially when you get good at the controls.
tinykidtoo
31. Aug 2016 · 04:26 UTC
The art and gameplay is great. I wish I had enough time and skill to get to heal more people.
PeachTreeOath
01. Sep 2016 · 00:19 UTC
You made some good choices about upgrades. A lot of people make stale upgrades like do x more damage, or you now throw 2 potions, but the ones you had were interesting enough to have me keep going to see what was next, good job.
SimonHutchinson
01. Sep 2016 · 01:15 UTC
I win. Hooray!

Very fun. Great feel and graphics. Also great engagement with the theme.

I'd love to see this expanded somehow. Everyone loves upgrades!
kyyninen
01. Sep 2016 · 09:22 UTC
I'm not sure this is how medieval medicine worked...

I liked the upgrades. Bottle felt kind of wonky, sometimes it hits the ground and sometimes it falls of the screen?

One thing that was kind of awkward - music hits the epic finale just when I'm running around the level looking for the last few stragglers.

I had a good time with this. Good job!