Thanks for the game, the art is really cute ! It was fun to play, but hard to answer my boss everytime ^^

Neat idea, and cute graphics :)

It's a funny idea with a cool graphics. A little hard to play

Might I ask if this took any inspiration from the dancing plague?

the concept is solid, though I would definitely have appreciated it if there were more feedback for your actions, maybe adding sounds to every interaction and highlighting objects the mouse is hovering over

The visuals and the sound effects is all pretty good. The gameplay idea is interesting, but also very confusing, and to be honest I do the most of the time not really knowing what was happening.

@gonzalol yes it is quite hard indeed, we unfortunately didn't have much time to tweak everything before the deadline but are definitely planning to try and make a bit more fair (and durable) !

@kassie-kitsune hey, (edit: I just checked the dancing plague which I can't believe I never heard of and it is absolutely fascinating ! Thank you for this !), main inspirations were a funny picture posted by a user before the jam started and the now retired Action Park in the USA (who was mostly known for being super dangerous and deadly). As for the feedback I agree a 100%, I actually managed to throw the sounds on the phone pretty last minute and was planning to do more but again, time constraints... Will keep you up to date on our future updates if you are interested !

@jk5000 it's kind of "all over the place" I agree, I do thing adding some feedback as mentioned before will help in that matter (not only sound but also text telling you what kind of 'bonus' or 'malus' happenned on the different stats), also bending the difficulty curve will hopefully allow the player to get used to things before ending up with a mountain of bodies !

Thanks for the feedback so far everyone !

Somehow I already had fun reading the explaination. Somehow I find it funny how it says how to dispose the dead body like it is the most normal thing!
When I played the game I laughed out loud by the choas this game brings haha. Texting your boss "that everything is ok" while you see people drowing in the background is somehow very funny to me.
My highscore is 97 seconds.

Some feedback:

+ It is a bit hard to play with a touchpad, when using a mouse it is a bit less hard.

+ I like how you have to search for the drowning person, I can imagine it is a bit like in real life.

+ The introductiontext you made seperate gave a lot of context with the situation the player is in. Maybe it would have been nice to add that introduction into first screen of the game itself.

+ I did not really understand the colors of the water, did I miss something?

+ The theme was very present in this one.

+ I liked the graphics very much. It all fits together very nicely.

Hey @wouter52 !

Thank you for the feedback !

You saw right through me for the introductory part ! I did indeed plan to make a real introduction with the boss welcoming you on the job for your first day but had no time to implement it. So instead of doing nothing I put it in text form under the game ! Hopefully I'll add this properly in an upcoming update ! Same thing for the "introduction screen actually" this was slapped on the game pretty much last minute. Would've prefered a proper menu screen + tutorial section but hey 72 hours is NOT a lot of hours !!!

As for the "water" I'm afraid to say it was supposed to be a blinking dancefloor (kind of saturday night fever style) and people are Hula Hooping on top of it. I'm guessing it is perhaps unclear as you thought it was water ?! So in theory, so you have the intended picture, people get stuck in their Hula Hoop while dancing on this blinking floor, and eventually die if you don't help them. I'm guessing the beach theme and especially the style of the infirmary is very seaside based.. I'm curious (and scared) to know if other people were confused with this (so please people do comment if you found yourself confused !)

Thanks again !

Good job on the game, it was a little confusing at the start but once you learn it was fine. The sound effects was great!

I really like colors! Great job

great job with graphics! i find it a little hard to play at the start but after some tries it goes. graphics are great, good colors-maybe i'd go with little bigger and 'chonky'characters to match more the enviro.
had fun playing this, great job!

Took me a while to understand how it worked. Not a big fan of the left click / right click thing, I think using left click only would be simpler. I would have liked more feedback when I "save" someone or when someone dies (sound or visual feedback)
But overall nice game, I did several attempts and it got me hooked! It's a cool idea and the art style is amazingly cute! nice job :)

Oh man, that was so intense! I lasted 171 seconds, and was fired because I should've texted my boss back, not because I got like 7 dead kids lying there, huh :) Nice take on theme and nice graphics, too!

Really nice game and I like the art very much :-). The music is well choosen - it really gives the impression of being at a beach with some tourists forgotten their brain at home :D.

Not sure about the difficulty. I'm actually a fan of games not running too long - but the game starts really fast with putting pressure on the player.

Overall I like the game idea very much. But I think it would be more fun on a mobile game (I think right-mouse-button is not really needed and you could achieve everything also with a single click).

Really nice colour palette and ambience sounds - a neat contrast with the hectic gameplay. Well done!

Very funny game ! I find it little bit difficult to play at the beginning.

Fun and frantic game! I love that when you go to the staff house, it obscures the field. That got a good chuckle out of me. Graphics and atmosphere are pretty good too!

Very funny! It just needs a few tweaks.

One thing is better feedback. I think there should be a better visual indication on the kids (in addition to sounds) when they're choking.

Also, the colors of the kids have a low contrast with the background, it would be better to use colors with higher contrast ([this might help](https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/)).

I agree this would fit well as a mobile game. Good job!

@guaranteedtrainwreck
I talked to some friends today and mentioned your game, they said it was funny because hula hoops where loops too. Is that the reason why you came up with this idea?
Also congrats on getting 20+ ratings :smiley:

@wouter52
hey thanks ! It is exactly why yes ! We are literally talking about people stuck in Hula Hoops ;)

I see you've passed the 20 ratings too so congrats to you too !


@igor-kingamer
Thanks for the feedback and the link ! I am working on the post jam version as we speak, will post a link when done for those interested !

Well done! It takes me some time to understand what is going on, however, the game is fun to play! I like your humor about Hula Hoops and loop itself. The art is great as well!

@wouter @igor-kingamer @tomate-salat @dodidouda @mirakazumi @kassie-kitsune @jk5000

For parties interested I have been (and still am) working on a post Jam version of the game, taking into account your great feedback !

Here's the link : https://guaranteedtrainwreck.itch.io/hoops-paradise-postld

Major changes :

- The game is now left click only
- Coolness is not an endgame factor anymore, but gives you up to 3 heal bonuses
- Your boss will fire you only after 3 unanswered messages
- Every 2 deaths on floor, your boss will give you more ambulance space (if you answer his text)
- Chaos is gone, goodbye chaos
- (soon to be fixed) It goes on forever as long as you answer your boss
- There are a whole new bunch of visual and sound feedback
- There is a proper intro
- I have tweaked and tweaked again and am still tweaking the difficulty slope

Feel free to let me know what you think, if you enjoyed the changes or not, and if you encountered any bugs !

Cheers !

Damien

Nice audio and funny graphics. You used the theme hilariously. I had hard time answering the boss and always lost because of that... I think. Also, in the HTML5 version it felt the buttons didn't always respond.

Hey @tomssuli !

Thanks for playing, yes the endgame on one call missed was a bit extreme.. You mentioned buttons not responding, was that on the phone ?

Feel free to try the updated version, the link is in a previous comment !

Cheers

Damien

@guaranteedtrainwreck

At times it felt that clicking the first aid or ambulance also didn't register but on the phone the buttons really did nothing and I couldn't close the phone so it was stuck on the screen.

After couple of tries I downloaded the game and the downloadable version seemed to work fine.

@tomssuli, ok that is weird, especially the fact that you did not experience this on the desktop version...

On what browser did you try the game ?

Could you perhaps try running the new version and see if you experience the same problems ?

Here's the link : https://guaranteedtrainwreck.itch.io/hoops-paradise-postld

Thanks again

Damien

@guaranteedtrainwreck
Hey, now it seems to work fine and the UI was also clearer when you had the healing icon on mouse :)
I found couple of bugs now that I got longer in the game. One is that sometimes hula dancers would come on top of each other and another maybe bug that I couldn't use the extra ambulance space. It would take one person I click and go. Or does it come back faster?

EDIT: For the browser I have Chrome

EDIT2: Hmm... Now that I played it longer and got many ambulance updates, I could collect many people. Not sure if it bugged or if I just lost the ambulance upgrade before using it... But it makes hard to see suffocating people if other people is on top of them.

@tomssuli glad to hear the triggering problems are gone..

As for the several bugs you outlined, I am happy (happy ?) to report that I have found the source for most of them and am currently working on the fixes (hopefully after that and a few polishing touches we can call this done)

Thanks again for your helpful notes ! Will keep everyone updated when I push the update !

Cheers

Damien

Hey, I got your game on stream, and enjoyed playing it! Here's the vod if you wanna rewatch; https://www.twitch.tv/videos/779148172

And thanks for submitting your game!