Calling all Scrubs - Two Point Hospital requires your artistic flair!

For the next week (starting today at 3pm and running until Monday 4th March at 3pm) we're going to be running our Open Art Surgery Competition! We want to see your art or artist inspired Interior Designer items. You can be as abstract or traditional as you like, your hospital is your canvass, but your creations must be art or artist themed.



There will be 2 runners up and one overall winner. Our runners up will win a coveted Two Point Hospital t-shirt, whilst our 1st place winner will get a code for our Bigfoot DLC and a Two Point Hospital t-shirt to boot! If you come in first place and already have the Bigfoot DLC we will find an alternative and fitting reward.

Be it a Starry Night in Hogsport or a Sunday Afternoon in Grockle Bay, let your imagination run away with itself. After all, Venus had to be born somewhere and even The Girl with a Pearl Earring had to go to a medical professional at some point... probably.

All you have to do to enter is follow these steps:

1) Get up to speed with the terms and conditions: www.sega.co.uk/sega_prize_draw_terms_and_conditions_nps

2) Create your artistic marvel using Two Point Hospital's Interior Designer Function

3) Publish it to Steam Workshop and share on Twitter, using the hashtag #TPHOpenArtSurgery, or post your entry in the comments of our Facebook announcement of the competition.

4) Sit back and await the glory that may or may not come from being chosen as one of our top 3 entrants!

Good luck! We look forward to seeing what visual delights you come up with!

Continuing our Steam Workshop Interior Designer feature, let us bring to your attention the classiest bundle of flooring we've EVER SEEN! And you can trust us... we've seen at least 5 by this point.



Amoebae has succeeded in creating beautiful flooring that would impress the most hoity, and indeed toity, VIP. There is not a scrap of kardean to be found in this hospital - only genuine polished planks grace the floors - which will no doubt make your doctors feel like they're performing medical miracles in style!

Subscribe now!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1659916555

Another fortnight has passed, and therefore it's officially another Tunesday! Get these right in your ear holes! Like what you hear? Let us know who's music taste is most in tune with yours in the comments below!


Chris Knott, Lead Animator:


Meduza - Piece of your Heart

Yuksek - Showbiz - purple disco machine edit.

Earth Wind and Fire - Shining Star.

Pertubator - Future Club.


Dave Oxford, Artist

I recently watched the Blackkklansman and liked the soundtrack. The track Blut Und Boden (Blood and Soil) captures the flavour of the film really well, I thought.

Well worth a watch and listen.


Prem Fatek, Artist:

One lil energy boost
Snake man by RichaadEB

And one intense orchestra song (except the original is not on spotify >:( , so have a base filled cover of it )
D.V.M.N(From "devilman crybaby") by falkkone


Rich Brooks, Coder:

White Lies - Ritual - Bigger Than Us
White Lies just released an album called Five, that seems pretty cool. But the first couple album are still their best imho. This one is from Ritual and is typical of their sound. Love it!

Radiohead - The Butcher EP - The Butcher
The is an obscure Radiohead track, released as an extra for those that bought King of Limbs from their website. It's definitely a big out there, but if you're not tapping your foot or nodding your head by the end of it, then there's something wrong with you.

Gomez - Bring It On - Whippin' Piccadilly
Classic band. Classic song.


Lauran Carter, Community Manager:

MegaRan - Splash Woman.
A whole song about the first ever female boss to appear in Mega Man? Yes. Please.

Also, I've very much still on the Mac Miller train. It's been a full month of Mac for me now, and I have no intention of moving on. I won't add another track to the playlist, but do go and listen to more if you feel so inclined. I love him. I am sad.


Craig Laycock, Brand Manager:

When Nik Kershaw wrote The Riddle he succeeded in creating the most confusing banger in pop history. Take the lyrics, “Near a tree by a river, there’s a hole in the ground/ Where the Old Man of Aran goes around and around”. I’ve done some research and I can confirm the whole premise is absolute tripe. Tripe that I can’t stop listening to and that I’m now inflicting to ruin your day, and this playlist. Damn your songwriting hands, Nik Kershaw!


Ben Hymers, Lead Coder:

This week I have just had my big playlist on shuffle. The shuffle gods have chosen this song more often than all the other songs: Les Fleur, by 4hero. It's a lovely tune :)


Mark Webley, Director:

I've been listening to Gorillaz: The Now Now pretty bloody excellent.

*editors note - I've chosen the first track so as not to bombard you with Gorillaz!*


Gary Carr, Creative Director:

Adolescent Sex - Japan

Up Around The Bend - Hanoi Rocks


Harry Puttock:

Tokyo -Brockhampton

Your Dog - Soccer Mommy

Vibrant - Brasstracks



We've set up a Two point Radio Specific Spotify Channel now, where you will find our older and brand new playlists. You can find the 2019 playlist here!: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jycpaF6TYJ38nIXI8kezv

And if you're interested, you can find our 2018 playlist here!:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2q7q4m0bXZT1U1XumCGXDF


Enjoy!

Lauran

Hi everyone,

We have just released our latest update (1.12) which fixes some bugs from the Interior Design release (1.11) last week.

We are loving seeing all of your creations in Workshop! There are 1900 items in total so far, and they are all brilliant! If you have any feedback on the feature, or if there is anything else that you'd like to see in Workshop than let us know in the comments below.

Change log:

• Fixed preview images larger than 1MB causing failure to upload to Steam Workshop - images are automatically downscaled
  
• Fixed issue with UGC (User-generated content) room items not being unlocked in sandbox when "All Unlocked" option is turned on
  
• Fixed issue with selection area rotation in UGC image picker
  
• Fixed issue with Workshop sandbox saves not updating level Kudosh
  
• Fixed issue with incorrect message dialogues appearing when loading UGC sandbox saves
  
• Fixed issue causing black textures when deleting local UGC
  
• Fixed issue where downloaded hospital items were not getting updated on workshop items update notifications
  
• Added support for line breaks in UGC description field
  
• Added tab key toggling between input fields on UGC screen
  
• Added filter to item filters list for each UGC bundle
  
• Improved item icons for e.g. long rugs. For any existing items you will need to update the item for the new icon to be regenerated.
  
• Tweaked display of names of missing UGC items

We also have a wiki for Workshop with some tutorials on it, which you can find it here: https://wiki.twopointstudios.com/Main_Page

Let us know if you have any problems with the update and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Thank you so much for the support :)


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Patch/Update history;

v1.01 Version 1.1.20734
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1737715419894374958/

v1.02 Version 1.2.20902
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1737715419912789209/

v1.03 Version 1.3.21016
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/2590022385657630517/

v1.03 - Hotfix 1.3.21253
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/2590022385674105664/

v1.04 Version 1.4.21500
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1742220359686940247/

v1.05 - Version 1.5.21458
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1734339901242274332/

v1.06 - Version 1.6.22002
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1730963192532977799/

v1.07 - Version 1.7.22557 -
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1734342161870561505/

v1.08 - Version 1.8.23179
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1735468693696549361/

v1.09 - Version 1.9.24567
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1744479698793334049/

v1.10 - Version 1.10.24826
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/2806204040006424820/

v1.11 - Version 1.11.26305
https://steamcommunity.com/app/535930/discussions/0/1778262124933711289/

v.1.12 - Version 1.12.26819

Afternoon Scrubs!

Today we're kicking off our community workshop feature, we're calling it The Cream Of The Shop! 😏

GoblinandDuck's paisley passion is absolutely something we can get on board with! We've been thoroughly impressed here at Two Point Studios, you'll probably find this collection in most of our Hospitals!

Fancy Schmancy rugs for all! Subscribe now to get them in your hospital:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1651392063



Great work, GoblinandDuck! Thanks for your support!

Lauran

Go wild with your own custom designs with the free Interior Designer update for Two Point Hospital!



Stop us when this sounds familiar - you're happily beavering away on your world class Health Care Empire when you catch yourself thinking "I wish I could put my mate's face on a rug". Don't worry, we've all been there, your mate does have an excellent face after all - which is (a very small) part of the reason we're bringing Interior Designer to Two Point Hospital!

From this point forth, your rugs, pictures, floors and walls in Two Point Hospital can be entirely of your own design - and it's super simple too!



To create your own floors and walls all you need to do is head to the room you want to change, click 'customise' and then tap on the Steam icon and the 'wall and floor' option should appear. Then it's simply a case of choosing which pattern or image you'd like to use and importing it. Remember - the image you choose will be repeated to cover the whole wall or floor so try and choose something that tiles nicely. Or don't. This is YOUR Hospital, after all, and you are free to make it look as nauseating as you like! TESSELLATION BE DAMNED! *ahem* sorry about that.

For pictures and rugs, it's a slightly different process but still as easy as catching a cold in a hospital - just head to the item menu and look for that cute little steam icon again. This will give you all the size and shape options for both the rugs and pictures, and then you just need to import your chosen image.

https://youtu.be/5YTN9UQiHC4

Invaluable for labelling up the different wings of your hospital, this first workshop iteration is going to add a plethora of customisation to Two Point Hospital. How about a rug adorned with the words 'Gross Body Fluids' for your lab? Or you could remind your patients and staff just how lucky they are to have such a caring Hospital Administrator by putting your own mug on a rug and placing it in every room. Oh let's just throw caution to the wind, shall we? - Place those rugs MULTIPLE times in every room.

Wondering what the recommended image sizes are? We got you, fam:



Here's some other things you could try out:
- Wallpaper made entirely of meat. Yum?
- The floor is lava! Not really, but you could totally make it look that way
- Your cat, on canvas, in a psychiatry room. Mmmm, calming.
- Two Point Creative Director Gary Carr flooring. That's right: Gary Carr-pet.
- Go to a real hospital, take photos of everything and plaster it all over your own hospital... wait, is that allowed? We're not sure. Maybe don't do that.

The game is currently 20% off in the Steam Lunar Sale too, so if you haven't yet indulged your inner Hospital Administrator now is definitely the time!

TLDR: The free Interior Design update is AVAILABLE NOW for Two Point Hospital, here's a handy How To video.

We're back with some brand new additions to the Two Point Radio playlist! We've been insanely busy for the last couple of weeks getting some exciting new updates ready for you, so busy, in fact, that I wasn't even able to get tracks out of every team member. So this update is small but perfectly formed.



Chris Knott, Lead Animator:

Classics.

I Walk Alone Haji & Emanuel Dub – Those Guys
Lazy ( Feat David Byrne ) Extended Version – Xpress 2


Prem Fatek, Artist:

For efficient visual work:
To the moon and back by Savage Garden
Move your feet by Junior Senior
Little lies by Fleetwood Mac
Knights of Cydonia by Muse


Lauran Carter, Community Manager:

Do The Bartman, Bart Simpson: Seriously, I've listened to this about 15 times this week alone and it holds up, I swear!


Craig Laycock, Brand Manager:

This Love, Maroon 5: I recently heard that Adam was poorly... or did I? I think I did. Anyway, Lauran and I worked late whilst this blasted out of some tinny speakers, so here we are.


Ben Hymers, Lead Coder:

This week I have listened to tons of Presidents of the USA for nostalgia's sake! Too many to stick on the playlist, so I'll pick one randomly: Back Porch. It's just fun :)

I've also been more than a bit obsessed with Eels - Flyswatter. Super cool melody.


Gary Carr, Creative Director:

Bentley Rhythm Ace, Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out



We've set up a Two point Radio Specific Spotify Channel now, where you will find our older and brand new playlists. You can find the 2019 playlist here!: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4jycpaF6TYJ38nIXI8kezv

And if you're interested, you can find our 2018 playlist here!:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2q7q4m0bXZT1U1XumCGXDF


Enjoy!

Lauran