Keep the Doctor Candidate Alive

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.00
(Still in development. I'll upload the formal version as long as it finished.)

Hello, I'm a bachelor-straight-to-doctorate student. After graduating from undergraduate, I went directly to your school to study doctorate. The normal graduation period is 5 years, and it may be postponed up to 8 years.

You can see my graduation requirements and my current status. Every turn, I have 7 initial points of energy and different things I can do according to my status. When the energy is not enough, you can click the ‘Next turn’ button to refresh.

I'll trouble you in the next five years. Pay more attention to my attributes. If there are 3 items that are too low, I will be in danger. It doesn’t matter if I graduate or not, please keep me alive.

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Tags: #2d

Comments5

vartagh18 Apr 2020, 16:00
broken link
appix
appix18 Apr 2020, 16:35
草这不是唐门吗,居然做LD了,还没玩占个坑记得互评哈
itch的连接炸了
Echonia
Echonia21 Apr 2020, 02:50
The gameplay is easily understandable and seems "fun" (for pros!), even tho the UI is kind of overwhelming. (For a con...)

The scope was "high" as far as I can see from what was accessible to my eyes during the playsession, the concept of the game fits the theme on a strict litteral level (staying alive).

Still nice to see how much seems to have been done in this timeframe. Nice!

Bug I've encountered blocking my session in browser:
Cards aren't dealth after the first turn. Even tho I have a pop up saying something along "you figured out your hand fills at the begining of the turn"

(I also refreshed the browser)
Baby Dino Herd24 Apr 2020, 01:41
Really nicely done! I really like this take on the theme, it really captures and shows the experience of being a doctoral student.

I couldn't figure out how to publish papers, even after taking all classes and getting research progress up to full. Perhaps this also is a reflection of the doctoral student life.
James Beninger
James Beninger24 Apr 2020, 02:46
There's definitely a core of a game here. It needs some balance (it felt too easy), but the gameplay was straightforward and I wanted to keep playing.
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