[HN Gopher] CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
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CorsixTH: Open-source clone of Theme Hospital
Author : scrlk
Score : 236 points
Date : 2024-02-18 11:45 UTC (11 hours ago)
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| Daunk wrote:
| I've had my eye on this for over 10 years, and I'm still just
| waiting for Multiplayer.
| arrowsmith wrote:
| I loved this game so much as a kid. Here's hoping the new
| generation can discover it and have as much fun as I did!
| eterm wrote:
| The new generation has Two Point Hospital, which is very in
| keeping with the original, and was developed by some people who
| worked on the original.
| fourfour3 wrote:
| Unfortunately it didn't quite hit the nostalgia button for me
| - I think the lack of the classic diseases like bloaty head
| was particularly felt!
| Oddskar wrote:
| I randomly started playing through Theme Hospital, and I'm now
| almost at the last level.
|
| I must say: in general it hasn't held up very well. There are so
| many mechanics that are extremely poorly explained that are
| fundamental to the game. E.g. epidemics and earthquake/machine
| strength. Trying to micromanage all of the gameplay systems that
| are quite annoying to begin with doesn't end up being .. fun.
|
| As a child I'm sure I liked it because it was goofy and
| approachable, but playing through it now I doubt I ever got
| through the levels where managing epidemics is important.
| blibble wrote:
| was that the old theme hospital or CorsixTH
|
| about a year ago I got most of the way through CorsixTH before
| realising a few things didn't behave as they did in the
| original, namely epidemics
|
| I went back and completed the original instead
| Oddskar wrote:
| It's the original TH.
|
| Epidemics is a pretty bad gameplay system. Especially
| considering patients going between buildings automatically
| fails it; which makes it almost completely broken. On some
| maps buying some particular buildings is a complete foot-gun
| due to this.
| TheCycoONE wrote:
| Curious what you prefer about the original epidemics. As a
| rule we try to balance quality of life improvements with
| faithful implementation and lean towards faithful when a
| change is controversial.
|
| For our own protection we do not reverse engineer though so
| the goal is similar to what can be observed and fun to play.
| moritonal wrote:
| Just wait until you find the fax machine mechanic xD
| shamiln wrote:
| Every year I play this, started with CorsixTH a few years ago
| when it became stable enough to play.
|
| Those damned earthquakes destroying different equipment (usually
| the slack tongue slicer) annoy me, but it's all good fun though.
|
| I tried to play the reboot, but I prefer Theme Hospital.
|
| On the mend.mid is my favourite piece of music from the series.
| Oddskar wrote:
| It's poorly explained in the game, but you can increase the
| amount of machine health by researching "Improvements". One
| also has to keep track of the machine strength which is only
| visible in the bottom right corner when hovering over the
| machine. It will deteriorate over time, and at some points the
| machines will have to be replaced.
| wildrhythms wrote:
| As another more modern and 'serious' (but still fun) game in this
| genre, I recommend Project Hospital. You manage building, hiring
| staff, addressing difficult diagnoses, and so on.
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/868360/Project_Hospital/
| omarqureshi wrote:
| SEGA employee here, so, a little biased, however, I don't play
| many SEGA games. For what it's worth one of our studios has
| members that are ex-Bullfrog and have Two Point Hospital -
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/535930/Two_Point_Hospital...
|
| Give it a try, this is one of the few ones that I have played and
| enjoyed.
| k__ wrote:
| Not a SEGA employee here.
|
| I played TPH and liked it.
|
| Is the university game already released?
| bikson wrote:
| Yup. Last year or two.
| RobotToaster wrote:
| Also on sale on GoG.
| HanClinto wrote:
| 75% off -- not bad!
|
| https://www.gog.com/en/game/two_point_hospital
| ta1243 wrote:
| Works on: " Windows (7, 8, 10, 11) "
|
| Oh well.
| jameshart wrote:
| It's time to upgrade from XP
| solardev wrote:
| The Steam version is on GeForce Now too, so you can play
| it from any browser. There are native apps available for
| most platforms too.
| __jonas wrote:
| That's odd, the steam version does support Linux
| (natively) and Mac
|
| https://store.steampowered.com/app/535930/Two_Point_Hospi
| tal...
| Caligatio wrote:
| Two Point Hospital is very much the spiritual successor to
| Theme Hospital and I would have no problems pointing people
| towards it first rather than Theme Hospital.
|
| I have extremely fond memories of playing Theme Hospital back
| on my PS1 but it does have some rough edges.
| mattlondon wrote:
| +1 very very much the spiritual successor, and I think even
| some of the same developers.
|
| The negative side of course is that they have not really
| added that much in terms of new gameplay mechanics in Two
| Point Hospital compared to the original, and a bunch of the
| levels are DLC so are extra money. But hey it is fun.
| Daunk wrote:
| I would have played if it had been multiplayer.
| Matroftt wrote:
| Github feed is getting spamm'd with all these new stars added :P
| andruby wrote:
| Are you one of the devs?
| lewri wrote:
| Matroftt helped us find out where our sudden stars were
| coming from. Very thankful to get a flurry of appreciation
| from the community today for CorsixTH :)
| TheCycoONE wrote:
| Hi Lewri!
|
| I suppose I can answer a few questions about the history.
|
| Peter Crawley (Corsix) built the original versions of
| CorsixTH back in 2009. I made my first significant
| contribution in 2012 when I added movies. Now I am the
| oldest active contributor and Windows packager. I primarily
| work on the engine and leave the scripting to others.
|
| Lewri joined in 2020 and brought a lot of energy back to
| the project, improving community outreach, bug triaging,
| patching and keeping everyone talking.
|
| Alan runs the distinct but parallel Android port which was
| recently started again after a long hiatus.
|
| A number of other developers are currently active and can
| be found in our discord/matrix channel.
| foxhop wrote:
| If you want to see a cool beta game in a related genre check out
| https://luckeyproductions.itch.io/park
|
| I've been messing with the game engine, Dry the successor to
| Urho3D on my blog lately
| atum47 wrote:
| I love this game so much. Thanks, I'm gonna start playing it
| again today
| atum47 wrote:
| Pretty straight forward the installation process on Debian,
| nice job
| rtuin wrote:
| This is awesome, can't wait to play TH again. Totally forgot
| about this game, but i remember playing a demo version of the
| original game. The game was good fun. What impressed me most back
| then was the quality and "realism" of the videos (mind you, it
| was 1997)
| seabass-labrax wrote:
| I enjoyed playing a demo version of Theme Hospital too. It
| wasn't the version on the UK Playstation Magazine Demo Disc No.
| 18, volume 2 for you as well, by any chance? :)
| rtuin wrote:
| Similar though! It was on PC, either downloaded from Tucows
| or from one of these shareware discs they sold at computer
| fairs.
| jcul wrote:
| I was never a big gamer but I loved theme hospital!
|
| Can't wait to try this.
| serf wrote:
| TH, and CorsixTH afterwards have taken an unbelievable amount of
| my life away since the game first landed on the PS1.
|
| I feel like I speak with a British twinge on my voice for days
| after a few hours of listening to the PA secretary audio -- that
| applies to both TH and all the new Campus bullfrog games, too.
|
| ( I love Bullfrog, but I still like the original TH and Corsix
| remake more than any of the new stuff. Probably just nostalgia. )
| Fawlty wrote:
| Theme Hospital (c $4) and CorsixTH is an amazing combo - they
| brought back all my childhood memories, highly recommended
| charles_f wrote:
| > we love Lua and its approachable and easy to pick up nature
|
| I keep seeing Lua popup in random places, like home automation or
| this game. I've never really looked at it into details, what
| makes one chose Lua over something more standard?
| TazeTSchnitzel wrote:
| It is more or less standard for game scripting because it's
| easy to embed.
| feydaykyn wrote:
| I made a few commits now and then on corsixth and I want to
| stress how much the team has been welcoming, with "first issues"
| label, guidance and help on the code.
|
| Many thanks!
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