Vital Operations

by tinycastleguy

co-authored: @random-storykeeper, @takeshi64, @ijzm

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.06

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.97

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.75

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.89

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.58

:warning: This game contains pixellated depictions of blood, gore and body horror. :warning:

Dr. Stein is a surgeon with a unique way of performing transplants on his patients. Their lives are in his hands, and his life is in your hands. Will you have a successful operation, or die trying?

Screenshots

Vital Operations - Patient needs body part.png

How to play

- Use WASD or arrow keys to move
- Press X to interact with a patient
- Use the mouse to operate on your own parts by clicking and dragging within the red lines according to which body part the patient needs.
- If done correctly, the limb will come off and you can click and drag it to the patient's missing body part.
- Each body part you give up gives you 100 points.
- Move to the door up north to spend your points and regain your body parts and blood (health represented by the red bar at the top).
- The goal is to prevent your blood supply from completely draining.

Organ/Limb prices (based on the number of organs you go to the shop with)

Prices to repair your missing limbs/organs:
- 1 :arrow_right: 200
- 2 :arrow_right: 300
- 3 :arrow_right: 350
- 4 :arrow_right: 400

Updates

May 1, 2019:

- Shop now works as intended.
- Mouse cursor is now hidden during operations.
- Knife is bigger in size.
- Victory/game over music no longer overlaps when you complete an operation/lose.

Comments14

Matu30 Apr 2019, 05:27

Good graphics, and I liked the music! :)

Ydoc12430 Apr 2019, 05:41

i like the concept

GeneralBeans30 Apr 2019, 05:42

Really fun concept, I really liked the graphics and the visual damage that my sprite would take on.
Good job!

khaotom30 Apr 2019, 05:54

Funny!

Geckoo13371 May 2019, 00:41

A really solid entry with a big amount of work on the aesthetic. I liked the way you play the choosen theme - totally unusual and clever. Player animations are really well done - smooth and funny. Sometimes black humor is not always balancing in games, but you did. Thank you for this entry. I love my patients too :)

manicInsomniac2 May 2019, 02:43

The game had a lot of good mood and animation. Hella music. The execution felt a bit weird? I couldnt really figure out why I kept failing, and the lines we're literally pixels deep. The "health for currency" was very thematically represented, but didn't really seem to play into the mechanics too much? It would've been interesting to trade away more then one body part at a time, or to have downsides for missing body parts. Loved the stylization tho, the doctor walking around without his kidneys had me giggling.

HPMNK2 May 2019, 02:48

Hahahahaha i laughed when i saw my character running with blood, without arm and brain x) The theme is well respected and the animation are really smooth. Liked the little 8bit/16bit feeling on the music :)

The idea can be interesting but it need more incentive to give the player the will to do this over and over again, like some upgrade system or anything, but for a game jam it's really nice : )

atmospherium2 May 2019, 22:28

Great job, everyone. Took a few tries to get the hang of surgery, but after a few attempts I was able to do armless and brainless surgery. Just like in real life.

Character design and animation was great, walking was surprisingly satisfying. Music was really good, felt like the right level of energy for the gameplay. Does the music change as you reach certain thresholds, or was that just my imagination?

arcana3 May 2019, 03:20

Music was great, I enjoyed the retro graphics.

I couldn't figure out how to play the game after four tries, reading the instructions, and checking the comments. I feel like I'm kind of missing out :(

Takeshi643 May 2019, 04:20

@arcana Sorry you weren't able to figure it out :( Basically, you go up to a patient, and if they have a surgery they need, you can press x to go into the surgery minigame. In the minigame, you'll see they're missing a particular body part. You drag your mouse across the red line slowly on the corresponding body part on the doctor's body. Then a sprite for the body part will appear and you can move it to the area where the patient is missing a body part. The youtube video up at the top should show an example of RSK doing it. Thanks for playing our game!

DDRKirbyISQ3 May 2019, 04:20

Lol, great. Yeah the surgery part needs a bit of visual feedback, lest players become pretty confused about what they're doing wrong -- needed to watch the video before I understand what I was supposed to do.

Of course I failed on the brain transplant...which makes sense

stark4 May 2019, 10:27

Great look and feel, music is very nice and everything is fine, except the goal. The game really need some goal to complete and win =)

Zhaan4 May 2019, 14:54

Funny game! I just needed several tries to get that I need to cut the organs with the tip of the knife.
At one moment I was stuck in the game because the patients wasn't asking for organs, or if they did, I couldn't access to the surgery mini games by pressing X key, even If I had the organs.
Anyway, good game and great work overall!

Webox5 May 2019, 03:03

Cool idea for the theme, It's pretty hard to play since I kept failing some operations despite going really slow and steady. Maybe some feedback on how the operation is going or some zoom. Great work, the graphics are top notch, and the humor too! Loved the mug haha.

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