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Unstable Hospital

By littledaimon, Npol and Bublikd

View on ldjam.com

CategoryRankScoreCount
Overall14142.8921
Fun13012.8421
Innovation7623.2821
Theme6563.6321
Graphics12602.8121
Audio8942.8121
Humor10552.4120
Mood11353.0220

Comments

littledaimon 2021-10-05 07:40

by @raimonds-vanags request i added linux and mac os builds, please comment if they work :)

raimonds-vanags 2021-10-05 10:17

I wish there was a non-windows version. Cannot really try it out without extra effort.

zappablamma 2021-10-05 10:25

I really liked the theme here! Reminds me of old Theme Hospital games, but spooky

I think the tower-defense-hospital idea is great, and I think this could be refined into a proper game. Right now though I think the gameplay loop is a bit confusing - it's hard to tell what patient requires what aura (maybe some sort of icon above their head would be useful?) and it's quite hard to tell where they're going to move, so it's very fiddly to play, especially with more than one patient. Good idea overall, just needs some refining :)

pythorogus 2021-10-05 10:33

Nice concept !

dcy11011 2021-10-05 10:53

Greate idea!

substain 2021-10-05 14:01

cool idea, but its really hard to react to the patiens needs - i also had the feeling nothing I do really helps. But at least I always have enough beds to take in new patiets^^

lakea 2021-10-05 17:17

Really enjoyed playing, some extra feedback on what patients need would really help this one

tom-stephenson 2021-10-06 17:33

I really liked the concept for this, it's fun to play but the lack of feedback did make it challenging! I liked the UI and how the instructions were presented. It took a moment to get my head around what to do, but I had fun when I figured it out!

Overall a really great game idea that stood out as being unique. With a bit of extra polish to help make patients and their needs easier to distinguish, it could be a game I'd see myself playing! Congrats on a great entry, I enjoyed it :)

triggthediscovery 2021-10-08 23:39

I really liked the look of the UI, and thought the sound/music was very appropriate, but think I might have been doing something wrong iwth the gameplay. While I was able to "cure" a couple patients (as in, reduce their instability to 0), they just kinda walked around continuing to generate money, and it didn't go towards the cured total in the ui. Is there a final step that I'm missing, or is something wonky?

My issues aside, I like seeing these management/sim games at LD, I wish there were more like this!

littledaimon 2021-10-09 08:46

@triggthediscovery yes it's bugged, I looked through the code and found that I forgot to check for cured patients :) uploading a post-LD version with some improvements and fixes for anyone intersted

r3l0ad1 2021-10-09 23:20

Nice game, the concept is well thought out, but like others have said, there needs to be more feedback on the patients. overall, nice work!

pashaloban 2021-10-14 14:57

Cool game

malcolm 2021-10-14 20:30

Everyone died and I don't know why.