It will work on the latest platforms without any kind of compatibility settings being required. OpenTH will be cross-platform, supporting Windows, Linux and Mac. The goal being to clone Theme Hospital and provide a game engine build on the original Theme Hospital data files. House (also called House, M.D.) is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on the Fox network for eight seasons, from November 16, 2004, to May 21, 2012. Better yet, it’s now available as a £5 download for modern systems – my 12-year-old self is gearing up for those dawn sessions already. OpenTH is a Open Source programming project. And while the 12 increasingly-difficult levels don’t take too long to complete, it’s the sort of game in which – like reading a great novel – you find new details and quips every time you play. For the past two months or so, one of my side projects has been writing an open source clone of Theme Hospital. But this was a business sim with balls, and its trademark dry wit and dark humour quickly gave it cult status – everything from the ridiculous diseases you had to treat (“slack tongue” caused by “chronic over-discussion of soap operas” or “transparency” caused by “licking the yogurt from the foil tops of opened pots”) to the CVs of the potential staff you can hire (“twisted and resentful – burning up with hate”).

Released in 1997 by now-defunct British developers Bullfrog (the guys behind the also-legendary simulators Theme Park and Populous), the premise of the game seems incredibly unsexy: it’s your job to build and manage a hospital complex, hire and fire staff, cope with possible epidemics, and make your establishment profitable. By Liam Dawe - 27 June 2023 at 1:28 pm UTC Views: 17,453. CorsixTH is an open source reimplementation of the 1997 Bullfrog business sim Theme Hospital. My adult self finds it hard to comprehend just how addicted I was to Theme Hospital when I was a kid, regularly booting up my Compaq at 5am before school to see how my patients suffering from “bloaty head” were faring. Open source Theme Hospital game engine CorsixTH v0.67 gets a first Beta.

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