{"assets":[{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goblin_01.gif","local":"\/data\/posts\/2014\/04\/5ee2ed0faa2fae42f66c9451217437a5.gif"},{"original":"http:\/\/www.ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goblin_01.gif","local":"\/data\/posts\/2014\/04\/5ee2ed0faa2fae42f66c9451217437a5.gif"}],"author_link":"author\/jimjam\/","author_name":"Jimjam","cat":"LD #29","categories":["LD #29"],"comments":[],"epoch":1398573600,"event":"LD29","likes":11,"metadata":{"p_key":"81365","p_author":"Jimjam","p_authorkey":"0","p_urlkey":"290482","p_title":"Team RetroEpic is in!","p_cat":"LD #29","p_event":"LD29","p_time":"1398573600","p_likes":"11","p_comments":"0","p_status":"WAYBACK","us_key":null,"us_name":null,"us_username":null,"event_start":"1398384000","event_key":"22","event_name":"LD29"},"source_url":"2014\/04\/27\/team-retroepic-is-in\/","text":"

So it\u2019s\u00a0a little late for the whole \u201cwe\u2019re in\u201d thing, but we decided now\u2019s as good a time as any to say hi! Our team consists of four of us jamming from a game dev company called RetroEpic. We\u2019re based in Cape Town, South Africa.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gone with a rather unusual concept: The player controls \u00a0a doctor\/therapist who\u2019s job it is to keep an army of dungeon goblins happy and healthy by diagnosing then curing their various ailments. The player chooses from a number of semi-sanitary diagnosis tools, then pokes and examines the goblin patient, watching for reactions. After a while, various symptoms will become evident, which will illuminate what kind of ailment the patient has. From there, the player can assign a cure to the patient, and earn gold to buy more tools and cures.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d like to capture as much humour and empathy as possible in the narrative and visuals, while still keeping some kind of fun, deductive gameplay. Hopefully this will eventually allow us to explore all kinds of emergent gameplay and narrative treats \":P\"<\/p>\n

Anyway, there\u2019s a lot to get through, so we leave you with a WIP shot of Alan the goblin, and our player\u2019s dungeon-y consultation\u00a0office.<\/p>\n

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