Doctor! Doctor!

For GBJam-9

Theme

There's a pundemic sweeping town and the Doctor has to do his best to help the local population... using medical grade puns.

Gameplay

Doctor! Doctor! is a smooth scrolling walk-n-talk RPG. You collect an inventory of diagnostic pun words that must be used in occasionally jovial and frequently inappropriate conversations with the townsfolk.

Controls

• Arrows and Space
• Gamepad

Engine Notes

'Doctor! Doctor!' was created in my unreleased fantasy console Marv300. Due to the resolution mismatch with the Game Boy I've added a decorative border like you'd see in some Game Boy emulators, but the game itself sticks to gameboy resolution and colour limits.

Credits

• All code, writing, graphics and game design by @TheMightyGit
• The font is based on the 'Kitchen Sink' 6x8 font by Retroshark and Polyducks
• Palette by Polyducks

Why..?

I'm really bad for skipping over text in games, if it's skippable I'll skip it.  I've also never written a game that's largely driven by the writing. This jam was my opportunity to feel the pain of other people skipping over my lovingly crafted text, so maybe I'll think differently about skipping over text in the future...