- CategoryGames
- First releasedJune 1, 2016
- Versions4 archived
- Installable4 of 4
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerExperimental Gameplay Group
- Bundle IDcom.tomorrowcorporation.humanresourcemachine
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
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Report an issueProgram little office workers to solve puzzles. Be a good employee! The machines are coming... for your job.
- Included in the 'App Store Best of 2016'. - A worldwide App Store Editors’ Choice. - Winner of Excellence in Innovation by the International Mobile Gaming Awards.
Human Resource Machine is a puzzle game for nerds. In each level, your boss gives you a job. Automate it by programming your little office worker. If you succeed, you'll be promoted up to the next level for another year of work in the vast office building. Congratulations!
Don't worry if you've never programmed before - programming is just puzzle solving. If you strip away all the 1's and 0's and scary squiggly brackets, programming is simple, logical, beautiful, and something that anyone can understand and have fun with! Are you already an expert? There will be extra challenges for you.
From the creators of World of Goo and Little Inferno. Have fun! Management is watching.
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“Amidst the trend of instant gratification that the internet and gaming as a whole has perpetuated, having a game that both excels in its puzzles and also challenges your wider perception of it is commendable, and makes Human Resource Machine exponentially essential.” - Touch Arcade 5/5
“Sometimes a game catches you by surprise. Be it with its ingenuity, its style, or its sense of humor. Other times a game catches you with all three, like Human Resource Machine.” - Gamezebo 9/10
"Human Resource Machine Could Be The App Of The Year” - Mobile n’ Apps
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8 of 25This simulates a simple CPU. There is only one register and no subroutine calls. The worst feature is if you write a partial program and did not run it, you could lose the program if this app gets deactivated by ios when sitting in the background.
I wish this game would let me stop the numbers from changing at each attempt Programming is already abstract enough, please allow for static numbers!
I share the developers' cynicism. We are in a mindless bureaucratic march toward nothing. But if I'm going to waste my life staring at screens, solving meaningless puzzles that have already been solved by someone else and are solvable much more easily by computer programs that have already been built—if I am to be boxed in by machines that quantify my every move—it's at least nice when the pointless puzzles are challenging. So thanks. Maybe I should go outside and play now.
I made a script which multiplies two inputs, the way the level tells you to. The script gives the correct output, but the manager requests a zero on the last pair, regardless of what said pair is. I am stuck.
it was very fun but for every level above ten I would spend minutes thinking and my head always felt like it would explode afterwards in conclusion i think it’s a very entertaining game but it’s also realllllllly hard to solve each floor
They need to have locking screen orientation. The minimal basic options are poor. The game itself is decent. It’s polished and I appreciate the hard work designing a friendly debugger. The optimizations are the main fun of the game, the levels and instructions themselves are reasonable. Polish and design 5/5. Basic quality of life features 3/5. Puzzles and gameplay 4/5. Price and platform implementation 3/5. Story 4/5.
Wonderful game. Great way tonelagem procedure thinking too. (I’ve even assigned it as HW as a way to build familiarity with procedural thinking and implication. Most programming tools just teach you commands and don’t help people develop thinking habits they need to program.) Great game if you like logic puzzles and games with character.
the game is really fun but seriously not much levels so hard to figure out what to do instructions kind of hard to understand NO UPDATES WHAT THE WHAT
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