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Cursed Nurse by InitialPosition

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made by InitialPosition for Ludum Dare 52 (COMPO)

You are a normal nurse bot in a robot powered hospital... or are you?

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Control a nursing robot that was accidentally posessed by demons and no longer runs on electricity but on blood. Don't worry, it's perfectly fine. As long as you manage to harvest enough of the stuff from patients when no one is looking...

Features

  • Nurse AI that is so sophisticated it ate about 70% of my time
  • Stealthy gameplay
  • The most beautiful win/game over screens you will ever witness
  • At least three sounds

Controls

  • Arrow keys: Movement
  • Shift: Sprint
  • E: Harvest patients

Changelog

1.0

  • Initial release
  • Implemented bugs

1.1 (POST COMPO UPDATE)

  • Balanced game difficulty to levels that indicate more than 2 minutes of playtesting
  • Nurse bots now have different colors for different AI states
  • Enter now goes back to main menu from game over / game win screens
  • Fixed some rooms having incorrect background colors / missing effects
  • Added missing game icon
Link https://github.com/InitialPosition/LDJAM52
Link https://initialposition.net/LD/52/CursedNurse_WIN.zip
Link https://initialposition.net/LD/52/web/
Microsoft Windows (POST COMPO UPDATE) https://initialposition.net/LD/52/CursedNurse_WIN.zip
HTML5 (web) (POST COMPO UPDATE) https://initialposition.net/LD/52/v110/web/
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/cursed-nurse

Ratings

Overall 125th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Fun 99th 3.632⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 101th 3.579⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Theme 112th 3.895⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 186th 3.447⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Audio 73th 3.667⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Mood 121th 3.5⭐ 21🧑‍⚖️
Given 16🗳️ 11🗨️

Feedback

0xWAVY
08. Jan 2023 · 23:52 UTC
Super fun. The little robot sprites were cute too. Music was really enjoyable as well. The game itself was harder than I expected, what made it satisfying to reach the end. Really well done.
Frib
10. Jan 2023 · 18:55 UTC
Quite enjoyable little game! At first I thought I had to farm everyone, but once I learned you can revisit bodies after they've been refilled, I just hogged the leftmost 3 bodies until the end of the timer.

Even though some things felt rushed or unfinished, it's a very nice and fun game! :D
Efilheim
11. Jan 2023 · 15:24 UTC
Nice game, the detection mechanic is working well!
Awesome visuals and music, good job!
arron-fowler
11. Jan 2023 · 22:13 UTC
I really loved the end scene! It was a simple and well put together game loop that I enjoyed. What more can I ask? Kudos
BoxedMeatRevolution
11. Jan 2023 · 22:21 UTC
I was congratulated for winning! I like the aesthetic and the controls felt smooth. It's a little easy, because you can just wait by a bed until all the nurses leave and then drain the blood. Maybe if you were "tainted" for some time after drinking the blood and needed to hide then you'd be forced to move around and hide from the nurses more. Nevertheless, the atmosphere and evil fun of being a vampiric robot kept me playing until the end!
Yngvarr
13. Jan 2023 · 18:58 UTC
I just can't stop jamming to the beat! Nice combination of music and graphics, I love the 8-bit aesthetics. Gameplay is smooth and fun, it even got me thinking. The game seems a bit repetitive, but doesn't overstay its welcome, being pretty short.

Here's my playthrough:
https://youtu.be/OoWYmjgiEWI
D3kryption
14. Jan 2023 · 08:15 UTC
The audio on this was amazing. I love how harvesting often lined up with the audio to make the tune just work.

The game play was fun. I absolutely kept getting caught. But I managed to do it in the end. Great idea. Great game play.
I really enjoyed playing it.

nice work! :)
Adam Konig
15. Jan 2023 · 20:10 UTC
Super super clean and fun entry. Gameplay was simple and easy to pick up, but also very interesting and gave lots of options on how to play. Visuals were quirkly and simple but perfect for a game jam. Overall very very solid entry that I enjoyed a lot
shp
15. Jan 2023 · 20:20 UTC
I loved the game! one of the most fun ones I played this LD, the stealth gameplay is super intuitive and fun and the music fits like a glove. the concept of the game already made me smile before playing
lfreinoso
17. Jan 2023 · 01:13 UTC
I loved the game, but I didn't hear any audio, like suspenseful music, but the game is great and I had a lot of fun, I loved the graphics. Happy birthday.

Check out my game: https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/52/space-harvest
amarokczukay
19. Jan 2023 · 13:57 UTC
nice addictive game! the post-comp version is harder (for the best). i really liked having to predict AI movements, it was nice!
Mephistase
21. Jan 2023 · 10:25 UTC
Everything is so simple yet so effective!

It is easy to read, everything is working and it is fun!

Congratulations!

Would have been perfection with some music ;)

And, in my book, this is proper ending!
🎤 InitialPosition
21. Jan 2023 · 20:18 UTC
@lfreinoso @mephistase I see the funny bug where music doesn't play in the HTML5 version is back this time. If you played HTML5, I can only suggest to download the standalone version, that has consistently working music. I still don't exactly know why the web version sometimes doesn't load the music properly but I'll try to find a fix for that.