Players can read into that what they like, and have the means to change it all if they so wish to. We expected it to be a daily roller coaster, but turns out the results have been surprisingly steady since the beginning, with 40% gold hearts, 60% stone. We wanted players to be able to see the choices other players were making, so we made use of the trusty swingometer to track the votes as the roll in. Giving players the opportunity to ‘vote’ with a heart of gold or a heart of stone seemed highly appropriate in an election year. Why did you decide to make the live feedback accessible?
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It’s always difficult to anticipate how players will react, especially with an update like this! But our fans from across the political spectrum seem to have taken this in the right way, and seen it for playful joke that it is. The majority of the videos posted on YouTube are filled with laughter and expletives (mostly due to the absurd difficulty level of the game, which is its hallmark), and they apex when finding secrets we’ve left in there - such as the shrinking of Nigel’s hand if he stabs himself with a syringe (playing on Marco Rubio’s desperate comments on the size of Trump’s hands).
Players took to the Trump update much like they did to the original game: with a good dose of jokes and nonsensical fun. What reaction did you anticipate from players? How did player reaction differ from your expectations, and how much were you right about? How many other presidential nominees can say that? He’s the most talked about man in the world right now and a perfect fit for a humorous game! That’s why Trump: simply because it’s unexpected, and therefore funny. You have seen him body-slam Vince McMahon on a WWE ring, and fire Chewbacca from The Apprentice for his bad grooming habits (to which Chewbacca pointed out Trump had a dead squirrel on his head). Some people have forgotten that Trump is a funny guy and has a history of being playful with his personality. We immediately found a satirical link between the unlikelihood of Surgeon Simulator’s setting and Trump’s ascendancy to the Republican nomination: Is he for real? Does he really mean all the outrageous things he says? Will he truly build that wall? There’s a lot open to voters’ interpretation. Is Nigel truly a surgeon? Do those surgeries really happen or is it all in his imagination? Why does he black out in-between procedures? Is he actually in space, saving the lives of astronauts towards the end of the game?
We broke surgeon simulator simulator#
Surgeon Simulator is a humorous and surreal game, one that leaves a lot open to players’ interpretation. Our most famous title follows a wannabe doctor, Nigel Burke, performing science-defying surgeries such as brain transplants in the back of a speeding ambulance hitting potholes, all the way to the emptiness of space in zero-gravity.Īnother title of ours is I Am Bread, where you play as a piece of dough trying to fulfill your life’s ambition of becoming toast (a bit more difficult than it sounds), while driving the homeowner hosting your antics literally mad, as he’s convinced his bread has come to life.įirst off, and most obviously: Why Donald Trump? We’re Bossa Studios, an award-winning independent games developer in the UK whose games are known to defy genres and bring unexpected twists. Please introduce yourself to our readers (especially for those who might not have enjoyed your work before).
Results aside, it’s been a fascinating experience to watch the response to the game. Bossa Studios granted us an exclusive interview with Henrique Olifiers and his team about the project.
Significantly fewer opted for the more approving Heart of Gold option. Out of the nearly 10 billion virtual dollars spent to successfully save Donald Trump’s life, almost two-thirds gave him a Heart of Stone. Nearly sixty billion in-game dollars were spent on efforts to save Trump, about thirteen times his estimate net worth, and ten to twelve times most estimates on the cost to build his now infamous border wall. Nearly 80% of amateur surgeons weren’t able to complete the heart transplant that puts Trump in the care of your surgeon’s incapable hands. As per usual for Surgeon Simulator, most went horribly wrong. For the most part, those surgeries didn’t go so well. That’s ten surgeries per minute since the DLC’s release, one every six seconds. Trump had already been operated on more than 106,000 times.
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