Spooky Doctor by Gonzalol
Doctor Van Healthy is ready to run his new practice, but he has noticed that something strange is happening in these lands...it seems like there is a new patient EVERY 10 SECONDS.
Help the doctor cure as many villagers as possible using your potion-making skills: identify the symptoms, choose the right ingredients and cross your fingers.
Don't expect to find the flu or a food poisoning... we're talking about vampire bites, werewolf attacks and curses from old witches.
Good luck!



| Web Game (Online) | https://funsmith.es/games/spookyDoctor/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/51/spooky-doctor |
Ratings
| Overall | 184th | 3.919⭐ | 70🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 373th | 3.61⭐ | 70🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 529th | 3.379⭐ | 68🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 444th | 3.799⭐ | 69🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 206th | 4.181⭐ | 71🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 244th | 3.516⭐ | 66🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 452th | 3.583⭐ | 68🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 86🗳️ | 152🗨️ |
I am just lagging concentration after 3 days with nearly no sleep ;)
Nice Job
One little bug I encountered is that the replay button is not working, it just stops the music from playing, to replay a level I need to go to the menu and select the level again.
The tutorial is well done also and correctly guide the player through the gameplay features without being too complicated. I feel like I wouldn't have played it more than 2 minutes if there wasn't any tutorial or guide of how to play it :)
Good job there, solid entry!

Some ideas:
- Very liked the idea that if you learn them well enough you don't even need to analyze since everything is written on their face (pun intended).
- The bug with empty pop-up reported by previous commenters seems to appear if you spam click when opening Vade Mecum.
Graphics and sound were very good.
Got a few bugs like the countdown for new clients not stopping during the tutorial.
Also the tutorial could have a better pacing, like introducing ingredients one at a time because i had no idea how to actually treat the symptoms and some icons weren't exactly very helpful on what each ingredient actually did. But its understandable that its all at once since its a game jam game, its just some nitpicking.
Tutorial was the last thing I implemented, I thought it was necessary to understand the game but it's true it was too many information in too little time. I already have some ideas to improve it. Thanks!
The overall atmosphere, UI, and operation method reminded me of a commercial mobile game I've seen somewhere.
The gameplay seems simple, but I also liked the fact that it became more and more difficult.
Like many other comments here, I think it would be nice to have a tutorial added to this game.
There seem to be some people saying it doesn't work in Firefox, but I use Chrome and it worked fine.
It seems that the bug it's not because of the browser but it just happens at some point
check out mt jam game!
My only issue is the function of the Join ingredient is a little counterintuitive: my instinct is that the medicine recipes should work like program instructions, with the Join ingredient as an AND (e.g. REMOVE(COLOR) && DECREASE(TEMPERATURE)), but once we get to three-symptom remedies, it becomes clear its only function is to indicate "this is a multi-symptom remedy": e.g., a remedy that must both increase temperature and increase vitality requires only one "increase" ingredient, but it must have the "Join" ingredient to indicate that it services more than one symptom. You would think that being able to (and required to) incorporate each ingredient only once would make things less confusing, not more, but in my case it's the opposite! ^_^;
I had my doubts about JOIN ingredient too, but it was too late to change it. Yes, I also had the programming parallel in mind.
Changing JOIN function or at least improve it it's on my to-do list for version 2.0
I love the concept of intentionally poison the patients XD
I got an head ach playing this game ^^'
A man with your avatar and name is a man I can trust.
Great job!
It seemed a bit hard at later levels. From what I could tell, the patients appear every 10 seconds, and you keep going until you empty the queue.
Awesome work!
You can watch me play through all levels here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoZKw32t5gc