Serious Surgery by FrozenCow

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made by FrozenCow for LD28 (COMPO)
Controls:

Left/right arrows: roll
Up arrow: jump
Space: proceed to a next level
R: restart a level
E: map editor I used to create the levels

Story:

In a world where people have spherical shapes, you are *the* hard-working heart surgeon known to mankind. You can do heart transplants in an instant, you're just that efficient.

You love what you do, but the hospitals where you work at aren't too great with their room-layouts. Operating tables are scattered in the buildings. Now you need to not only transplant hearts, but also find the patients!

Anyway, have fun with this silly game.

I interpreted the theme as you as a surgeon only get one heart to make one person better. The original owner of the heart cannot also get a heart to survive. It kindof grew from there and in the end had multiple patients, which doesn't fit the theme as well as it did ;).

Ratings

Coolness 72% 3
Overall 3.39 205
Audio 3.19 170
Fun 3.63 73
Graphics 3.26 323
Humor 3.83 36
Innovation 3.32 233
Mood 3.19 231
Theme 2.16 865

Feedback

LevelUpJordan
16. Dec 2013 · 07:10 UTC
I love this! Congrats :D
mutuware
16. Dec 2013 · 10:34 UTC
Great! The world needs more spherical people!
Nnly complaint is that the difference between donors & recipients wasn't too obvious, at first.
qbicfeet
16. Dec 2013 · 11:23 UTC
I love it! The hand-drawn characters are cute and the controls work well. My only gripe is that I don't really see how it ties into the "You Only Get One" theme.
zmas
16. Dec 2013 · 15:25 UTC
I really like the movement and feeling of speed. I think the concept would be alot better if the goal where to get through a map quickly meat boy style. That would give the sense of satisfaction when you where done and replayability!
moop
16. Dec 2013 · 15:50 UTC
Nice game. The bouncy physics were really fun, though the jump button could be intermittent (I think I was just off the ground or something) but this wasn't really a problem in practice.
The sounds fit the game really well.
TijmenTio
16. Dec 2013 · 16:04 UTC
Cool, but for some reason the walls and such don't load, won't appear. I can play the game with invisible walls though...
Mnemusyne
16. Dec 2013 · 16:43 UTC
I love the movement and the sounds. The game design (use of the theme especially) could've been better.
Darkcoder
17. Dec 2013 · 05:57 UTC
I found the controls pretty frustrating at times, and the levels would use indicator to show you where to go, but it's an interesting take on the platformer genre.
john_conder9
17. Dec 2013 · 07:47 UTC
This is absolutely hilarious, "whee" "owe" "yay." My main criticism is that it didn't have more game play elements, but, still this is fantastic!
Managore
17. Dec 2013 · 07:58 UTC
Yaaaay.
Sheepolution
17. Dec 2013 · 11:38 UTC
That was fun! But after a few levels it gets repetitive. And it's not very challenging.
Shaun Lebron
17. Dec 2013 · 15:44 UTC
This is hilarious! I was rofling as hard as the characters.
Gravedrinker
17. Dec 2013 · 16:11 UTC
Very fun and a cool idea. I liked gameplay a lot. As someone else said having more gameplay elements would be cool. There is a lot of stuff you can do with the concepts. The sound and humor was also enjoyable.
Corné Dorrestijn
17. Dec 2013 · 19:04 UTC
This ain't a silly game :D
Nelien
18. Dec 2013 · 22:27 UTC
A very interesting theme, hard to pinpoint. The mix of organ donation and happy go lucky sounds and facial expressions strikes a very good chord. A very unique entry.
adamwfindlay
18. Dec 2013 · 23:25 UTC
Hilarious, love the sounds!
Kimau
18. Dec 2013 · 23:29 UTC
Really loved playing this. I was all like roll out of my way I have a heart to rip out and throw into someone. :) Well done
van noctar
19. Dec 2013 · 00:22 UTC
Very good ambience!! I like the gameplay!!
kewry
19. Dec 2013 · 15:53 UTC
Cool game dude!
Aaants
19. Dec 2013 · 21:03 UTC
Great fun :)
JacksGamesSucks
20. Dec 2013 · 13:46 UTC
haha nice...should have more levels! great job!
rnlf
20. Dec 2013 · 18:19 UTC
Haha, silly game. A bit too easy for my taste. Might need a timer or something. Hep - ouch - ouch - yeah!
arcticleaf
23. Dec 2013 · 02:11 UTC
lol haha, nice
olafsworld98
23. Dec 2013 · 02:14 UTC
yay, i saved the day a lot
ViliX
28. Dec 2013 · 15:24 UTC
One of the most innovative entries:)
RodRoy1
06. Jan 2014 · 00:54 UTC
awsomely silly little platformer. loved in introduction of other hospital patrons who get in the way. well done.
Jedi
06. Jan 2014 · 00:54 UTC
Yay!