My Sick, Little World

I think it's very cute as an idea, though I feel like with more time there could be more opportunity to add different areas for the little guys to go and different things for them to do, I feel like this is a really good start to a promising game and I look forward to seeing what it'll become if you work more on it post-jam! :)

I love characters as they are so cure ^^ and I didn't read the description first, so I wasn't sure about the goal first, and didn't know they were sneezing. Eventually it clicked, adorable szeeses :) I hoped there was way to select multuple at once. I managed to get Hospital level 20 without anyone getting too sick, and then I just let everybody get sick and just make money (And then managed to get 4 upgrades before first death). It was also nice everybody had name :)

(game crashed after my first year passed, 6 deaths, and hospital was level 30. I got more people in than they died.)

The exact rules of the game didn't seem that clear to me. The colour difference between healthy and sick people was very minor so a lot of the time I couldn't tell the status of each person. I'm not sure what exactly the hospital does - I presume it's supposed to heal people but if/when it did I could really tell. It's possible this stuff was supposed to be deliberately vague but I found it hard to strategise when I didn't really get was going on.

I know this was a bit critical but I really do like the idea and wish I could have enjoyed it more. The concept is clever and seems well though out. The presentation of the game is also very nice. The little people look very cute and the sound effects are charming too.

Super cute art and sound effects!

I tried a few different gameplay styles, my favorite however (and in a very dark disturbing dystopian manner) was to stick everyone into the industry, and let them generate as much money as possible. Once there were only about 10 left alive, I upgraded the hospital as much as I could, got rid of the dead bodies and then played passively healing the "employees" who got sick.

My main feedback would be maybe having healthiness be instead of a scale from pink to grey, maybe pink to a colour? It was kind of hard to differentiate the healthy ones from the sick (that might, however have been your goal).

Also some tool to add more crowd control would have been interesting (Maybe slow down zones, grab and move in groups, add physical obstacles to the map, there's many options)

Really liked how you integrated the current world situation into the jam's theme! Overall, good job :D!

Upgrade to grab many at once?

Sound effects were good and I enjoyed the animations of the little dudes. Unfortunately my hospital was packed with sick little dudes. I made it pretty far though

So I started off by putting a few workers in the industry building while manually distancing the rest in the main area. It worked for a while, but they started getting sick in both places. So I moved the sick ones to the hospital, where lots and lots of them died. A necessary sacrifice for the greater good. After a while I realized keeping all the dead ones in the hospital might not be a good idea, so I made a graveyard in the corner. Then I put all the living ones in the industry, and shuttle-bussed the sick ones to and from the hospital to work. With this strategy I was able to upgrade my hospital more and more without anyone really dying. Then I figured I'd just leave them to work so that I could save up for a vacation at the bahamas! I finished year 1 with a total of 40 deaths and a hospital level 22. Cute little game!