Father dies At The End by nahual
STORY
Sometimes doctors do god's work, saving the lives of millions of people in spite of their fate. In spite..? Who really decides who is destined to live or to die? Perhaps you could take the responsibility, would you?
You play as an ambulance doctor who fights to maintain the life of a patient on the way to the hospital. You are given three tools that you must use to prevent the patient from dying: a defibrillator that will make the patient's pulse grow, a bag valve mask (breathing bag) that needs to be pumped from time to time to keep the patient breathing and a bandage that you better keep pressed to his arm to prevent bleeding.
CONTROLS
Defibrillator: ←→ (to charge) left-mouse click (if you click it outside of a patient's hitbox it will relieve the charge)
Bag valve mask: left-mouse click
Bandage: left-click and hold
CREDITS
CODE: Nick Bondar
GRAPHICS: Maksym Vulchyn
MUSIC: Akop Krot, Ivan Zelenyi, Nick Bondar
VOICE-OVER: Maksym Vulchyn, Akop Krot
| Youtube | https://indievids.itch.io/father-dies-at-the-end |
| Youtube | https://indievids.itch.io/father-dies-at-the-end |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/46/father-dies-at-the-end |
Ratings
| Overall | 591th | 3.766⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 2011th | 2.915⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 595th | 3.606⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 106th | 4.266⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 276th | 4.309⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 59th | 4.234⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 52th | 4.319⭐ | 49🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 64🗳️ | 35🗨️ |
It was really hard for me to keep him alive, I couldn't do it two minutes.
The intro is really powerful!
Took me a few tries too. Nice graphics and the sound, especially during the phone call... very good.
It would be good if you could skip the into cutscene, when you fail and want to try again. Some more player feedback during the game would also be nice, some indicators of what kind of impact your actions are having.
The intro story combined with thee music is great and builds up the tension. Would have been nice though, if you could skip it or fast forward.
I am really too dumb and completely fail to understand how to use the defibrillator. Do I have to drag it onto the patient? Do I have to move the mouse left and right to charge? Do I have to let go of the mouse button at the correct moment? I have no idea, sorry.
Even though I did not get far, you made a nice gloomy experience. Good job!
@TheOmelet now you only watch it once you start the game and you can skip it pressing any key but every line separately.
@fabula-rasa it has some indicators like if his pulse are at 0 and you use a defibrillator it says "critical, but stable" etc. Harsh decisions though we wanted to keep balance between, you know, impossible to end the game in one attempt and understandable UI overall. Needs more improvement that clearly will be done in future.
@zubspace to use a defibrillator you must click on it to activate, using left-right arrows you charge it and then click on his chest area. There is one thing about it that I don't want to ride to keep the intrigue but in case you'd want to relieve the charge just click it outside of the character's hitbox. ;) I sincerely recommend you to finish the game, it's a complete story and there is a message in it but in any case thank you!
Thank you very much, lovely words, this is really heart warming.
Within the game a little more feedback on the interactive objects would make the experience perfect.
Great submission thanks!
Overall I'm very impressed, great job!
Я решил попробовать. Это довольно жестокая игра, к ней нужно быть готовым. Тебя настраивают с самого начала: меню, начальный диалог, геймплей. Игра может отпугнуть некоторых игроков: я сам был напуган. Не работать мне в скорой помощи... Как вы поняли - атмосфера у вас вышла просто обалденно! За Mood - 5 баллов без вопросов!
Очень простая игра, с такой, какой надо графикой, звуком, камерой - замечательно.
Единственная моя проблема - механика дефибриллятора, я ее не понял с первой моей попытки, только со второй. Наверное, тут сложно впихнуть обучение. Хотя, небольшая секция того, как учат нашего врача перед первой сменой, смогла бы это сделать, но мне сложно сказать, как это повлияло бы на атмосферу.
Но это игра, пожалуй, самая атмосферная игра всего ивента, великолепная работа!
Your post with Nagiev drew my attention.
I decided to try your game. It is really brutal, you should prepare yourself before you play it. It's all starts with menu, than its intro, futher you experience gameplay. This game is scary: I was pretty scared. I am not made for the work in ambulance... What basically I am trying to say is that your game have awesome atmosphere! You deserved 5 points for Mood!
Very simple game, with graphics, sound and camera that it deserves - cool.
I have only one tiny problem with defiblrillator, it wasn't obvious how to use it at my first playthrough. Maybe tutorial could help. Little section before first change where everything is shown to our hero could solve this, but who knows how it would turn the atmosphere of the game.
This game is the most atmospheric game of the event IMO, awesome job!
The sounds were great as well and I was immediately invested!
Sadly the gamepay wasn*t really intuitive, I tried 10 ties and couldn't save the dad, I think more instructions would have been nice.
Like an overlay of showing what to do, also more feedback if what I was doing is even right, like I wasn*t able to charge the defibirlator I think, although I clicked away from the body and waited?
That sadly was a bummer honestly, as the rest of the game is really great!
But everything I did didn't seem to help at all, I think if the bag vavle mask and pressing the bandage does something, there should be a slight improvement to indicate this, sadly it didn't (or I did it wrong?)
The artstyle as I already mentioned is great, but the UI and verything looked perfect as well!
Anyway, a good job for a gamejam, congrats to the team :))
@vernalbehemoth yes, this is good idea to add more feedback, probably will do after we'll add more functionality
@sandra-martinez sometimes you need to use a defibrillator twice in a row in a short period ;)
@adam-clayden sometimes, when his pulse is dropping too fast you should use defibrillator twice
@notredamstra there IS and ending :smiley_cat: and is very important, would love if you get to it, use defibrillator twice if once doesn't have any effect.
@bredian Это реально классная идея с флешбеком как учат врача, очень интересно и логично. Дело в том, что несмотря на то, что механика достаточно понятна с первого раза многие люди путаются, на данном этапе это играет нам на руку, потому что цель нашей игры предполагает то, что игрок не с первого раза пройдет ее, что он успел почувствовать желанеие достичь результата. Функционал реализован не во всех аспектах, в которых нам бы хотелось его реализовать, поэтому пока что сделать игру реально сложной только лишь сложным геймплеем не получается, соответственно туториал бы предварительный сделал бы игру слишком простой, но в будущем, конечно, такая проблема должны быть и будет устранена, спасибо за отзыв!
@fatpenguin there is a feedback from bag valve mask, when he's not breathing and you force him to you get a notification that he's breathing in. You should charge the defibrillator first by pressing :arrow_left: :arrow_right: after that you hit him in a stomach area and it works but sometimes you need to hit twice but be careful, it's possible to overdo it.
I loved the graphics and the dubbing.