Comments for Idle Clinic

Still on it. Not sure if I get it ready today or not.

As you most likely already saw from other answers I work on an improved prototype. The gameplay is different and more complex. Most of the current problems should be gone I guess some new issues will show up. But I´m sure it will be way more enjoyable overall.

I know there are still many typos in the game. That has right now a low priority since I want to improve the gameplay first and get rid of bugs and performance problems.

Thanks, I work on a new version with better gameplay and way fewer troubles. The "memory leak" is caused by a combination of poor design decisions in the core of the game and the way how Unity games translate to the web-gl Platform. Basically, I gave the garbage collecter more work than he can handle at any given time. The game is so far just a prototype and I work as fast as I can on the improved version. If it turns out that many preferred the original concept I switch back to it. Otherwise, I stick to the new concept. In that case I´ll take over the new better core code and improve this here.

I will at least leave a comment with the link her as soon as I upload the next prototype. As mentioned before, the gameplay is pretty different to this one. I compare the two prototypes and their response here. I still like the concept of my self and want to build on the foundation. I should have done more testing first and put some more time in polishing things out. However, even if I stick to the new concept I consider to remake the original one later on. The new concept offers more content and more things to do. Thanks for the nice words. After I fixed a few things after the inital start I got a lot of positive feedback that´s why I iron out the problems now. I put as much time as possible in it so I hope it will be ready in 1-2 weeks.

Since the amount of patients you get is kinda random it is possible to lose money. But it might be that things go wrong while the game has no focus. I´m not sure how the different browsers handle it. IF you have the money to buy or upgrade a room you can do so. You´ll -0 for a day or two but you can´t go bankrupt.

Frankly, I did not expect that people play that far in this prototype. And since it´s balanced poorly I did not know that you guys get to many patients. However it was planned first to make more treatment rooms like the ward and the surgery ready soon after launch. I had to change planes because of poor design decisions in the core of the game.

A lot of that was actually planed. Most of it is even in the game but locked. In the Basement is the Morgue and the organ bank for dead patients. Next, the toe drugstore is Garage and an EM. Since most people complained about the too slow gameplay I went back to the drawing board and I work on an improved prototype with different gameplay. I´ll compare the feedback the two prototypes and go from there.

The night time is there because it was planned to have Ward rooms in the top Level of the clinic. The rahter low levellimit is because it´s a prototype and I have to balance the rooms and costs out first. How ever, since many complained about the slow gameplay I make a new prototpye with mor to do. But th gameplay is far from the same. I´ll compare the feedback to the two prototypes and got from there. Frankly, after the bad start, I did not expect that so many people keep playing it.

Yes, sorry for that. I have to do a lot of the code from scratch. How ever this is a prety poor prototype anywas but I got a lot of usefull information out of it. I hope I´ll be able to deliver a new prototype with way more gameplay in 1-3 weeks.

Well, I have to admit the whole saversystem I made here is rubish anyways. To build in a checksum would be the way to go but a hazle with my current mess. Many things are stored as ints while the patients are stored as strings. And even worse, every single patient has his own save string.

It´s there but there is a display error. Just click the buy button again/re-open the room and it shows up. But I´ll fix it soon.

Faster speed during the day is in the current version not possible because of silly limitations I made in the core code. Frankly, I did not expect to get so many plays at first. It´s so far just a prototype. I work on an all-new version with a lot more to do but the game is also very different. Since I got a lot of feedback I consider to redo/improve this variant of the game as well.

That´s just a display error. If I find time between I´ll fix it. But right now I spend my time working on the all-new version of the game since this one kinda sucks.

yeah, there is not much to do in the game. Sorry for the spelling errors I used an browser addon to fix the most of it but there might be some left. I started already to redo the whole thing. The new version will be very different but offers way more to do for the player. Hard to tell how long it will take.

It´s building it there is just display error. It does not update the data after buyng it.

Is that still happening? Maybe I messed something up with the save string form the patients.

Did they delete by them self? If so, it was not intentionaly.

I work currently on the memory issue. The thing with the room upgrade seems to be a display issue. So you get the room it just does not show up in the menu. I´ll have a look at this too.

Great, that´s usefull information. Thanks for that report.

Yep, seems like this game is way more boring to the most players than I expected. It was meant for players that just want to have something open while they chat. However, I´ll rebuild the thing and make something more fun out of it. As soon as as the bugs are fixed since the real-time aspect will stay. The current "gameplay has to leave" and will be replaced by something that gives the player things to do.

I´m afraid it´s not that simple. There is a memory leak somewhere. So giving it more space would just expand the time until it´s to big again.

That´s a hard one. May I ask about the browser you use? Did you have a lot of other tabs open? Did you try to close your browser and load the game again?

The problem with the pharmacy should be fixed now. So you make more money with lvl2 even if you have only the Alternative station. It is still a very slow progressing game and that´s currently because there is yet not that much to buy. As soon as you have another treatment room you get way more money and from there you are able to buy all the current rooms in very litle time.

The one with the neagtive money is odd. Must have been one of my last second changes. I´ll fix it today. TO close the clinic during the night seems legit right now. But would not work in the fututer. There are more rooms (not yet aviable for the player) and some of them run durng the night.

The idea was to bring back old school idle games. But it seems like they ae not popular anymore. So I´ll see if I can make the whole thing a bit faster.