Plywood Studios

"I hear that Roderick Cushion guy is filming a new medical drama at Plywood Studios. Just what we need... another show about a handsome doctor! If anyone from Plywood Productions is listening, I'm... I'm still waiting to hear back about my show. I don't wanna spoil it for you, but let's just say it's about a professional bowler that solves interdimensional mysteries! Actually... that's... that's pretty much it."

- Harrison Wolff

Plywood Studios is the first hospital in World 10 of Two Point Hospital, which requires the Culture Shock DLC. To unlock it, the player will need to reach Star Level in Flemington. It is recommended, however, that the player progress at least as far as Grockle Bay and Sweaty Palms, so as to unlock several treatment rooms, most notably the multi-illness rooms Surgery and DNA Lab, that will be required in the DLC. Upon reaching Star Level in Duckworth-upon-Bilge, Plywood Studios will automatically be unlocked, whereas it would previously have had to be unlocked manually.

The Culture Shock hospitals will all play host to a new VIP visitor, Zara Fitzpocket - yes, THOSE Fitzpockets! Another VIP will be playing a different role in Plywood Studios - Roderick Cushion will serve as a doctor, to fit with the level's conceit of a hospital show. This hospital uses the Target Challenge Mode, but only in addition to the normal sources of income, unlike in previous hospitals. A new clinic illness, Stunt Trouble, will make its first appearance, along with the Danger Zone, in which it can be treated.

=Career Mode= My name is Zara Fitzpocket (yes, those Fitzpockets) and I am writing to ask for your help. But where to begin?... As you may know, I am an artist, specialising in mixed media collage, papier-mâchê and oily paints. My friend, the Arts are sick and the people are too - coincidence? I'm afraid not...

For far too long, we have overlooked a sickness in our minds, our homes and our loft-studio work spaces. What may have begun as a collective dry spell has become an all too literal illness. No single remedy, be it dramatic, melodic or medical will be enough. No, we must all work together on my biggest project yet.

With my connections and your uncanny ability to heal things, we must cure the ailing culture of Two Point County. First things firstly, i believe that we'll be needing a shot in the arm, and who better to administer the injection than a certified healthcare wiz such as yourself? If you're interested - and I hope you are - your first task will take you to Plywood Studios and the silver screen! Remember, the pen is mightier than the scalpel. Zara

Welcome to Plywood Studios, where the producers of a new medical drama have asked you to run their show. They want a real administrator to add "validity, dynamism and an amusing, gimmicky quality". On the show, titled "Back Wards", Roderick Cushion will be playing a senior doctor who's inexplicably forgotten all his training. They've decided to call the character Dr Roderick Cushion, because, well, I'd actually rather not get into that again. It's just simpler for Mr Cushion, okay? Let's leave it at that.

To produce a compelling, County-gripping hit show, you'll need to work on developing your main character, Dr Roderick Cushion. People don't like characters who tread water, it reminds them of their desperate, repetitive existences. Roderick won't fraternise with the rest of the cast on his breaks - not on his salary! - so he's got his very own trailer. If you can't find him, he'll probably be in there. Oh, and to inject some urgency into proceedings, the actors will be curing, trying to at least, real patients. What could go wrong?

Pilot Episode
Rewards:
 * Train Roderick Cushion
 * Build a Marketing

10,000

Now that the show is fully underway, we'll start to receive requests from the show's producers about what they think should happen next. If they see their ideas make it into the show we'll receive some additional funding.

People online can be mean about television, or about anything really... When someone says something negative about the show it'll affect our reputation. Luckily we can combat their cruel, cruel words by investing in some Marketing.

Doctor Roderick Cushion
Roderick Cushion will be the sole member of staff present in the hospital at the outset of the level. He functions similarly to any other doctor, with several distinctions: In addition, it should be noted that several Star Objectives involve Roderick diagnosing and treating patients, and there is an achievement for training him up to level 5.
 * The player may not select room assignments for him, he will work in any room for which he is qualified (including those for skills that must be trained, such as Psychiatry or Research), although he can be picked up and manually placed.*
 * He will often leave the room he is working in, even if there is a queue and he is not on break.
 * He will take his breaks in his trailer in the centre of the map. He cannot be picked up while he is inside.
 * His salary is hugely inflated compared to an ordinary doctor and he cannot be fired.

*It appears there has been an update that does not allow him to work in rooms requiring special qualifications (such as Psychiatry or Research), but this is yet to be fully verified.

Producer Ideas
Target Challenge Mode makes its third appearance in Plywood Studios. However, in contrast to Duckworth-upon-Bilge and Underlook Hotel, here the targets are in addition to the regular forms of income, not as a substitute for them; in addition, Producer Ideas may not be declined, thus must be completed in order to receive more, and none will result in a reputation gain. Suggestions from the producer may include the following:

Illnesses Encountered
Below is a list of illnesses that will appear in Plywood Studios, and the rooms that will be required to treat them. Illnesses may arrive as a general admittance, on an emergency-only basis , or possibly both.

The icon, with a number next to it, represents how many patients can be expected if this illness appears in emergencies; it may be clicked on for more information.

Illnesses with a Star Level (, or ) next to them will only appear after that Star Level has been achieved.

Trivia

 * If the player constructs rooms facing the Stage A plot, construction equipment will overlap existing hospital rooms during hospital expansion.
 * Plywood Studios' savefile is named 928.