Hospital Dash by brads.space

Hospital Dash
Everyone is dying and it's up to you to get them to the hospital. Collect patients and bring them in. You can collect multiple people at once for bonus score! If too many people die then its game over.
How to play
- WASD to drive
- Drive into the red balls to collect Patients
- Drive into the green drop off zone to drop them off
| Link | https://bradjohnson.itch.io/hospital-dash |
| Link | https://bradjohnson.itch.io/hospital-dash |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/50/hospital-dash |
Ratings
| Given | 13🗳️ | 1🗨️ |
I love that you can chain multiple stretchers, and they can collide and make the driving harder. Really great idea there ! And you managed to make physics work without glitch, that's amazing !
The steering is inverted when driving backward, very confusing.
I like the art style. The street plane texture reminded me of the city-mat i had as a kid.
Great work on the camera.
The concept is nice, but camera and controlls are very confusing.
Other than that good entry!
One thing though: The car ist turning the wrong way while going backwards. You need to inverse the car rotation while driving backwards.
A plus for awesome car handling: Zero out the perpendicular vector of the driving dir. That way it dies not slide around like a boat.
Other than that a good entry for the theme.
One thing I wished for was if the red sphere would indicate when they're about to expire, like flashing, or changing size or something. Quite a few times I'd start chasing a sphere only for it disappear just before I reach it.
Overall a fun play!
I was NOT a fan of the squeaking turning noise, it was very off-putting. Otherwise I loved it and nice work!
One thing I would change is to make the camera a bit less... flaily? Especially when backing up, it feels like it's a bit too wild. It made already difficult game a bit too difficult. My best attempt got me to 21 points:
https://i.imgur.com/4pJjE3a.png
There were also some collider issues with the stretchers, one time I got one embedded in a building and were unable to get out, and here the last one got stuck in the ambulance:
https://i.imgur.com/anPkTjP.png
Well done!
I converted it into VR for fun, here's me playing it on my Valve Index:
https://youtu.be/99x3iVB4SMM
Thanks for including the source! It didn't include the camera code though but I was going to throw it out anyway in favor of making the player giant :smile: