Diagnosing Desire

An AI infused, House MD themed romance game that plays like a mix between Dispatch and a standard dating sim.

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Inspiration

Our team loves the show House MD. The characters have so much personality and it does so much to improve baseline medical knowledge of non-doctors, like us.

What it does

We wanted to express the romantic and medical aspects of through a dating and puzzle game. You can romance the various House MD characters while performing tests and treatments to solve the ultimate diagnosis.

How we built it

We used Node.js as a backend to turn Patriot AI isn't a pseudo API. Then we used a unity project to showcase the experiment. All of our members were artists, so we have some pretty great art for the game.

Challenges we ran into

We didn't have much experience with Unity, so lots of stuff was a struggle; our organization especially hampered us because we rushed through initially creating some of the UI elements, but then it took longer to make changes.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Getting the Node.js server to cope with Patriot AI not having API keys was super cool! The art also turned out great.

What we learned

We learned a lot about medicine (while doing research) along with about Unity and various Node.js libraries (specifically Playwright).

What's next for Diagnosing Desire

Fix some non game breaking bugs like diagnoses occasionally disappearing and sprites being stretched.

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