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Malpractice by Haustgeirr

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made by Haustgeirr for LD 42 (COMPO)

Malpractice is a game about an over burdened hospital. You have to ensure the worthy patients survive!

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CONTROLS

Click Patients to select them. Then click to assign them to a bed.

Patients will receive treatment once in a bed and cannot be moved.

Selecting a bed will show an option 'Malpractice' which will allow to free up that bed for a more deserving patient.

RAMBLE

Okay so this is my first ever Jam - and it was crazy hard and exciting! I didn't think to put any sort of instructions in the game, and I'm a bit disappointed that I never got the balance quite right. I'm quite exhausted so this might all be nonsense words. I guess that's normal?

(I added a link to my itch.io version. No changes made.)

Source code https://drive.google.com/open?id=1E2sG3Wjl2DiWqkhEYhrytoUtghZzRAwd
Windows https://drive.google.com/open?id=15Phbkji6kEqtMgMs9g_9e7aDNNN3IR4e
HTML5 (web) https://haustgeirr.itch.io/malpractice
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/malpractice

Ratings

Overall 300th 3.466⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Fun 472th 3.036⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 279th 3.339⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Theme 94th 4.107⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 188th 3.679⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Audio 214th 3.268⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Humor 107th 3.25⭐ 30🧑‍⚖️
Mood 311th 3.034⭐ 31🧑‍⚖️
Given 29🗳️ 19🗨️

Feedback

Ghen
13. Aug 2018 · 09:24 UTC
very neat idea !, i hope we have more control for the patient to make them faster to recover, especially some illness that need fast medication like the umbrella one, love the graphic, very clean and cartoony, gameplay also very effective
Marmadukian
13. Aug 2018 · 09:32 UTC
I liked it, the music was relaxing, which was an odd feeling while making sure people don't die. I found that the "bleeding" patients always died before I could get them to a bed, even if I got them directed before they stopped walking.
Fenerax
13. Aug 2018 · 09:34 UTC
Cool idea, the game was fun managing all the beds. The graphics and audio were really nice. Sometimes it was hard to move patients when there is mass of people entering and exiting, so maybe making a separate entrance and exit would make it easier.
bovandenberg
13. Aug 2018 · 09:35 UTC
i realy like the art style, how do you do that.
TDog
13. Aug 2018 · 09:40 UTC
Awesome game
somuch
13. Aug 2018 · 09:42 UTC
Patients blocking each other is goddamn genius. I also like how you can instantly put em down sometimes and sometimes you gotta wait. Ended up just putting everyone down for kicks until I realized I had -3000 bucks. Yes, I'm a bad person :l Bonus points for your description, can relate 5/5. Meta humor ftw
Predominant
13. Aug 2018 · 09:42 UTC
Very cute game, and definitely ran out of space. Good work!
🎤 Haustgeirr
13. Aug 2018 · 10:09 UTC
@bovandenberg For the sprites I made low-res pixel art (in MS Paint) then used Trace Pixel Art tool in Inkscape - it came out better than I was expecting lol. The background is just made straight up in Inkscape. Glad you liked it.
🎤 Haustgeirr
13. Aug 2018 · 10:11 UTC
@somuch Glad you enjoyed it! I'd be lying if I said play testing wasn't me mainly putting people down... The blocking was a happy accident, blessing of terrible path-finding code!
🎤 Haustgeirr
13. Aug 2018 · 10:13 UTC
@marmadukian I was still trying to balance those guys in the last minute... The swines.
somuch
13. Aug 2018 · 10:22 UTC
@haustgeirr a wise man once said that half the human population was a happy mistake. I think he was being overly generous but hey what do I know?
Suchista
14. Aug 2018 · 17:24 UTC
Moral dilemma in a funny edition, haha? Cute visual style and nice calm music.
5Spectra
14. Aug 2018 · 22:40 UTC
One of the best executions of the theme. The only thing some of them die before the have a chance to arrive to the beds.
Tattomoosa
17. Aug 2018 · 05:48 UTC
Great take on the theme! Nice selection of diseases. Was it intentional that some patients die without any chance of making it to even the closest bed? I mean, it is sort of appropriate from a thematic standpoint, but still struck me as odd.
🎤 Haustgeirr
17. Aug 2018 · 11:55 UTC
@tattomoosa Thanks! No, it wasn't intentional. First jam jitters and I didn't play test enough lol
Stefan Jovanovic
17. Aug 2018 · 19:50 UTC
Nice and original idea,liked the gameplay. Art is awesome.

Keep up the good work! :smile:
LeviDSmith
20. Aug 2018 · 01:58 UTC
Neat concept and cute graphics. I like the different ailments and how people lose health at different rates depending on the severity. I think the gameplay could be a little better paced to give it more of a puzzle game feel. Seems like there is just a mad rush and I was just clicking any person to assign to the next available bed. The "bleeders" seemed to die before I even had a chance to assign them to a bed. After a few minutes of playing, it seems like there were so many people that they got stuck trying to get into the room. The game also seems to go on forever with no end (I ended up with negative money).
Rayaarito
24. Aug 2018 · 17:11 UTC
Neat concept, cute graphic, and nice audio. I love how each sickness had its own graphic so I was able to tell if something would take longer to heal or not.

i think it would be better if punishment was more severe because it would speed up the game and force me to sacrifice people. So basically, it'd force me to play the game the way it was meant to be played. Also the whole screen resolution thing too lol

Other than that! Great game!
MartinTristan
29. Aug 2018 · 10:27 UTC
pretty cool game! great art style and addicting gameplay! the illnesses are really funny and creative! some of the patients though die really fast, not able reach the beds. adding more mechanics other than the bed would make this a really great time management game!
loveapplegames
01. Sep 2018 · 13:39 UTC
Good looking game, great work for a first jam! Selecting patients seemed somehow difficult. Another problem is that the patients line up in such a way that you can't really tell what's going on when it becomes crowded. Some patients died so quickly I think I could not have saved them, even if I could click on them fast enough.