Human Resource Machine

This game portrays itself as a programing tutor but unless you already know what to do you'll find yourself up a creek without a paddle real fast. There are no instructions beside a quick blurb on how a new command operates (add = add, sub = subtract basic kiddy stuff) other than that you're on your own, and things get complicated real fast. I repeatedly had to look up answers on youtube because they wont even give you a hint on how to reach the answer and there's no way to tell just where the problem with your code lies. Don't get me started with the interface, clunky is underplaying it, the further you get the longer the code and the more loops you need until you're looking at the god of all gordian knots. What little charm this game has will quickly fade as frustration piles up and the soundtrack starts to grate on your senses.

This is a programming puzzle game. You are given programming challenges and you have to write a computer program that solves that task. The game has several problems though. The challenges (in the later levels) are all basically staples of programming 101. They are not particularly challenging for expert programmers, and the puzzles lack imagination and force you to write the same logic over and over again with small variations (in one challenge you literally just swap "add" with "sub"). The game has about 40 puzzles, but more than 50% of the game is basically a tutorial that could have been covered in a help page. This is just lazy from the developers: you are getting actually very little "content" - most of the game is "challenges" where the solution is "take this NEW feature (addition, subtraction, etc) and use it to solve the problem in the obvious way". The programming interface is also atrocious. It kinda works fine for very, very small programs, but once things start getting a bit more complicated it becomes unmanageable - you will have lots of arrows pointing everywhere and you can only see like 7 lines of "code" at a time. This is made worse by the fact that the programming "language" only has a handful of constructs - it's "kind of" assembly, you see? - so writing a "if x == y then foo else bar" is 4-6 extra instructions. Writing this the first time is fine, but writing this the 8th time is just annoying and makes the "code" very hard to read. You might be wondering if this is at least educational. It absolutely is not: you spend more time fighting the interface than you do learning stuff, and the challenges are boring. You are not really learning about programming, you are learning about how to beat a (bad) game. In short: stay away from it.

Your brain must be charged up 100% if you want to solve the challenges in this game!

New... Good. Let's see... all ok... bit tiresome interface... wait it's for not only keyb users... Good Code ... simple... Good More code .... oh, i have to think... Good What? I could have done that better!!! ... Good ALL GOOD except: - need much more levels :(.