Man on the Field is a field surgeon (and stress) management game where you will be tasked with: - Having a steady hand. - Pushing randomized buttons. - Keep a look out on peoples lives. - Telling people to shut up.
Enjoy!
*KNOWN ISSUES* - It might be a bit hard in the beginning for new players. - In certain browsers/systems, the cursor that's used over the wound is pretty small. It's because your browser/system doesn't want to upscale the cursor. They game is still completely playable though.
This is really awesome. Somewhat reminds "Papers, Please", really nice graphics also. Good luck on if you are going to work on this project after the jam ;)
Wow. This is a pretty tough one. Looking fantastic. The topic is great too. The music is good - but I´m not sure if it fits to the pretty heavy topic. Still a really good thing!
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Liam :D8 Dec 2014, 15:14
One of the best games I have played so far! Reminds me of "Papers, please" and "Cook, serve, delicious".
The feeling when the intake of soldiers slows down, and you know perfectly fine that it's because they are all dead... because of you... Wow... Anyway, absolutely awesome. Hope to see this developed further into a retail product.
Wow there is so much to focus on. It's hectic, but also delivers a bunch of meaningful choices to be made. Although it might be a little too much at some points. Could also be me sucking at it... :p
Awesome game! Graphics is beautiful, especially the colours, and the music complement overall atmosphere excellently. Regarding the gameplay, it's very good concept but the pace is little bit too fast for me. I'd enjoy the game more if the days were longer and the patients endured little more.
This entry looks and sounds great, reminds med of Papers Please, but I really didn't think the music matched the atmosphere very much which was a bit disappointing.
Yep, that's pretty much totally brilliant. Hints of Papers Please with more eye-hand coordination juiciness (which thing do I look at?—the wound or the buttons?! But it's a good confusion). Love it.
You (it's jam entry, so probably it's a team) have to keep working on this after Ludum Dare. This game is amazing, it's could be something like Papers, Please but with much more depth and things to do.
Well actually I don't know, I had real problems because of being an azerty user I think. The ZXCV keys might not be the best ones.
But I managed to go to the day 5 and had fun! Reminds a lot of Paper please, which is still good. Music was supercool, I dunno if it's adapted to the theme of your game but it's super nice :) graphics are nice, too. I dunno about the shut up mechanic, doesnt seems meaningful enough to me, so I barely used it, prefer heal the soldier than losing time look at his health
Theme of the jam was respected but nothing more really I think.
Oh and, the message that says to put the cursor over the wound when the player doesnt understand is not appearing long enough, it took me time to success reading it (I'm not english so It takes me a couple of seconds to concentrate on the words)
This is really impressive! Great work on the graphics and audio. The theme and gameplay is really original. Gets super tense real fast. The complaining speech bubbles covering the UI is a great idea! :)
Really creative idea for a game, nice work! It gets really challenging and I like how the complaining covers UI. Only thing that's bit off a miss is that the music doesn't quite fit the game's atmosphere, but that's minor.
Awesome game! Loved the mechanics of it - the camera moving around the wound was a cool challenge. I think the music didn't really match up to the dark theme of the game's art, though - think something darker would have been better!
Really great! Got to day 11 on my first try. I really don't have anything bad to say about this game. Nice graphics, great music, easy to understand. Thumbs up!
Good job on this! The graphics are amazing, the game is quite fun and it's also quite innovative. However, as some other people said, the music should have been different. Anyways, good job!
The graphics are great, so is the music, but it clashes with the game's theme. This isn't a big thing, but in parts of Central Europe "Z" and "Y" have swapped places on the keyboard, and games using zxc... controls can get very annoying
VERY reminiscent of Papers Please. It has the same sort of frantic quality where you're forced to make terrible decisions every second. It's very challenging, too! I think you could easily sell this on Steam if you added some more gameplay and tweaked the UI a bit (right now the most important numbers, like men on the field and men waiting for treatment, are deemphasized and hard to see)
Soundtrack is nice, although I'm not sure it gave off the right mood. What mood WERE you going for?
Shame about dialogue - your eyes are too busy to read it.
Telling patients to shut up is pretty damn hard. - Maybe if patients were fidgety, telling them to hold still would reduce how quickly the wound moves around.
Difficulty doesn't seem to rise at all. Found it too easy after a while.
Really like core gameplay elements - zxcv and aiming stitching.
Brutally challenging. Visuals are excellent, as well as the audio. I'm not sure what telling the soldiers to shut up did for me, but the mechanic was loads of fun. Definitely impressive all round, nice job.
A great game. Very impressive and a simple yet interesting input/mechanic. However I felt that the music was very ill-fitting. Don't get me wrong it was great but I thought it didn't fit the overall tone(?) of the game.
Haha, amazing game. A very unique sense of gameplay, with great humor involved. Is the game finishable, or is it more about scoring high? I got really addicted to this, and managed till day 8. Music and sounds are also really well done. Once again, amazing job on this.
Really awesome game! I especially love the setting and feel of the game. The graphics and audio are excellent. I didn't find the core mechanic that appealing - maybe because there is so much going on that it is difficult to focus on positioning the mouse and pressing the correct keys.
Anyway, good game and a great presentation and execution. Well done!
I love how all these different game elements came together to make a really convincing whole. My favorite was figuring out that the reason for telling people to be quiet was to be able to see their health bar, that made me smile. It was pretty tricky to pay attention to everything at once, but you had a lot of great feedback to let me know exactly what happened when I did something wrong. I had a little trouble keeping track of the overall meta progression because I was so focused on the short term goals. Nice job!
This is incredible! Especially for a game jam entry...Fun, funny, fits the theme, pretty (well...if you would use that word for a game with blood, death, and war), and jammin music. Excellent job!!!
Real nice. Took me a bit to figure out how to treat the soldiers but it ended up very addicting once I got the hang of it. Graphics are sweet too and the music is catchy.
Okay, there was many fun game on this ludum dare, but I dare to say, that this one has the best gameplay mechanics. This innovative mix of few simple mechanics gave me so much fun... And that polish! Mhm <3 Great pixelish art, nice soundtrack, excellent mood... Every detail of this game is perfected! I'm now sharing it to everyone. :)
Beautiful art and nice sound track. Focusing on the wound and looking at the required key in periphery seemed to work the best for me. I didn't really get the strategy for sending units back early, on day 7 I started noticing the men on field dwindling and figured I should start sending some of the half healthy homes back out. Dunno if that made any difference!
Really cool! I like the art, the music, and the gameplay. Clicking away the screams of pain felt kind of useless since my mouse was on the wound all the time; also the game was so hectic that I didn't really have a clue of when or why to send people away untreated.
reminds me of Papers, Please but it is not a bad thing though really nice concept sometimes the speech balloons stay in front of the soldier's life, it's really frustrating
This is great! :) It feels VERY "complete". Like it's a finished product at this point, and we're being linked to an online marketplace somewhere instead of a weekend project for LD!
It's surprisingly more challenging the farther you go, and you really need to utilize your peripheral vision in order to dually press buttons and keep your cursor on the wound.
I'm not sure what else I could suggest in terms of adding to it and making it better, aside from perhaps a story mode or different levels or challenges or, as someone suggested, making the wounds different (visually, or via varying "types" of wounds, injuries and infections). Maybe certain power ups? Use of medications, suturing, bandaging, etc?
This is really solid, just as it is. :) It really feels polished! The art is also fantastic! Great color palette!
Great atmosphere and good approach to the theme. It would be nice to include the Y button as Z alternative. The visuals are nice and the music is catchy :)
Pretty cool game. The pixel art is really sweet. It was double hard on a german keyboard, so I had to switch my layout to english. Then it was a quite enjoyable game :-)
I liked the graphics and music, though the gameplay was somewhat uninspired. Very reminiscent of tapper. I'm not sure why you have to silence the soldiers complaining, though it was funny, I'm not really sure why.
very stressful but fun! survived until day 6. was confusing at first but i figured it out pretty quickly. love the feeling of multitasking. if only i had more eyes!
I really don't feel like pressing random buttons while hovering over a moving wound is a really great mechanical interpretation of a field surgeon's job. That said, it is pretty tough to invent brand new mechanics over such a brief development cycle, so I'll give you a pass on this one. The presentation was super polished, with wonderful pixel art, superb music, and a bit of dark humor that I really appreciated.
This game is really awkward for someone cursed with left-handedness like myself... but 72 hours doesn't leave a lot for accessibility.. and I totally understand :) Really nice entry. The overall look, feel and sounds worked really well. Little cart-lifey feel with a lot less "annoying", with a really great and appropriate soundtrack and very polished presentation. Good job! Thanks!
The minigame is a little unfair because I cannot focus on the correct button to press and position the cursor at the same time. The other portion game, where you have to silence the other soldiers works well, though.
Great game, fantastic art and game mechanics. Although I don't think you should have to hover over the wound while pressing the keys. Maybe just click to enter the heal mode, and click to shut up soldiers. That's a small nitpick though, great work!
Amazingly beautiful! The music is also very good but I don't think it fits the game theme. I like how it's like a "rhythm" game, but it isn't one. I felt the controls a little bit "weird", but maybe it's me and I should give it a few more tries (and I will). Awesome job!
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The feeling when the intake of soldiers slows down, and you know perfectly fine that it's because they are all dead... because of you... Wow... Anyway, absolutely awesome. Hope to see this developed further into a retail product.
Well actually I don't know, I had real problems because of being an azerty user I think. The ZXCV keys might not be the best ones.
But I managed to go to the day 5 and had fun!
Reminds a lot of Paper please, which is still good.
Music was supercool, I dunno if it's adapted to the theme of your game but it's super nice :)
graphics are nice, too.
I dunno about the shut up mechanic, doesnt seems meaningful enough to me, so I barely used it, prefer heal the soldier than losing time look at his health
Theme of the jam was respected but nothing more really I think.
Oh and, the message that says to put the cursor over the wound when the player doesnt understand is not appearing long enough, it took me time to success reading it (I'm not english so It takes me a couple of seconds to concentrate on the words)
It was fun anyway! Congratulation for doing this!
Loved specially the art, it's amazing how good it is with the time we had.
Congratulations!
Had lots of fun playing this.
The graphics are amazing, the game is quite fun and it's also quite innovative. However, as some other people said, the music should have been different. Anyways, good job!
This isn't a big thing, but in parts of Central Europe "Z" and "Y" have swapped places on the keyboard, and games using zxc... controls can get very annoying
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Just the control arrowes will be some much simple !!
Anyway I have fun to play with !!
The game is pretty fun too! I really love that browny ambient and all the gameplay elements. Even the little details like the moving wounded arms.
One of my top entries. GL, you have chances to win IMO ;D
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Shame about dialogue - your eyes are too busy to read it.
Telling patients to shut up is pretty damn hard. - Maybe if patients were fidgety, telling them to hold still would reduce how quickly the wound moves around.
Difficulty doesn't seem to rise at all. Found it too easy after a while.
Really like core gameplay elements - zxcv and aiming stitching.
Nice feedback on correct/incorrect moves.
Really fun!
everything is neat and enjoyable
However I felt that the music was very ill-fitting. Don't get me wrong it was great but I thought it didn't fit the overall tone(?) of the game.
Anyway, good game and a great presentation and execution. Well done!
I enjoyed playing it, great job! :D
The music is great too, but doesn't really fit the theme of the game.
but it is not a bad thing though
really nice concept
sometimes the speech balloons stay in front of the soldier's life, it's really frustrating
It's surprisingly more challenging the farther you go, and you really need to utilize your peripheral vision in order to dually press buttons and keep your cursor on the wound.
I'm not sure what else I could suggest in terms of adding to it and making it better, aside from perhaps a story mode or different levels or challenges or, as someone suggested, making the wounds different (visually, or via varying "types" of wounds, injuries and infections). Maybe certain power ups? Use of medications, suturing, bandaging, etc?
This is really solid, just as it is. :) It really feels polished! The art is also fantastic! Great color palette!
Great job! I wish I had made it! XD
The "day ending" transition felt a little abrupt, interrupting gameplay and all.
The piano music was perhaps the best part.
Lots of fun and even better than that great newspaper game from two jams ago. I'm going to need to come back and try again with a better mouse later.
The presentation was super polished, with wonderful pixel art, superb music, and a bit of dark humor that I really appreciated.
Really nice entry. The overall look, feel and sounds worked really well. Little cart-lifey feel with a lot less "annoying", with a really great and appropriate soundtrack and very polished presentation. Good job! Thanks!