Hey! It's time for another update of this game. Although we redesigned some key parts of the game, progress is going well on our public demo. Hopefully, it will be released by the end of the month. Fingers crossed!

New immobilisation mini-game

To care for your patient, we plan on having eight mini-games in the final game. All will be playable in full-screen, while your picking them up, so that they're easier to do the first time. But all will also be doable while you're driving so that you can raise back the health of your patient if you drove badly! This week, I'd like to focus on the immobilisation mini-game. When you're given care of a patient that received an injury to a limb, it's often important to prevent that limb from doing any movement. This eases the pain and ensures the situation doesn't deteriorate more.
To that end, this mini-game has you use a pump to inflate a vacuum splint. You must inflate it enough for the limb to be secured but not too much as to not cause too much discomfort.

Radio

There's been quite some progress on the audio front, with new engine sounds and more general mixing. That's hard to show on an image, obviously! But we can talk about one important aspect of the audio of game. Paramedics spending most of their days driving, not necessarily in urgence, they listen to a lot of music. Some even do work playlists! Our approach here will be to give you six radios to listen to. Using the holowatch, you'll be able to easily change which one you'd like to ear. All will feature varied styles, from punk rock to latin music, probably some electronic music too.
In between the tracks, radio jingles and news will pop up. These will be designed to immerse you even more in our beautiful city of Le Mascaret. By the way, do you know what Mascaret means? It's french for a tidal bore, a wave that goes backwards: from the sea, up the river! I must tell you something: listening to hours of music for work is a lot less fun than it sounds! (pun intended) It's about finding which tunes suit best, writing them down, grouping them together, trimming the list again and again... It's a lot of spreadsheets! DJ'ing isn't just about showing off on stage, it would seem. Let us know which styles you think would be best to drive to!

Next Week

By the end of next week, all three mini-games planned for the demo should be working. Maybe we will show you the other two. There will probably be many surprises for us by then. Maybe the new name of the game? We'll see! See you next time and remember to take good care of yourself!

[ 2025-03-07 13:28:23 CET ] [ Original post ]