Human Resource Machine VS Hungry Cat Picross

Human Resource Machine mentions (14)

• Six times faster than C

  This is pretty much `assembly language the game`: https://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine It's not a useful architecture, but it teaches the thought process really well, and you end up discovering a lot of optimization naturally. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• My teacher wants me to show him if Factorio can be used to teach programming, I need help with ideas!

  Other options have been given in this thread and I'd agree that for this particular situation the Tomorrow Corporation's "Human Resource Machine" is probably the best match. It's a constrained environment in a game that scales up to introduce this and more. Source: 12 months ago

• Ask HN: Technology/Creative books and games for my daughter (7 years)

  Not sure if 7 is old enough, I made this card "game" with my daughter when she was 10: https://punkx.org/4917/ which is not really a game but more like a puzzle, you have 54 small programs for a 4 bit made up computer (Richard Buckland's computer) and you have to interpret them in your head or with pen and paper. It's quite interesting to play with her when I change few instructions on a card. Other interesting... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• How would a video game based on being a sysadmin look like?

  We have programming based games like Human Resource Machine and Hacknet. Source: about 1 year ago

• Which programming language for a kid of grade 1-6 is better?

  The game us actually called Human Resource Machine and it is excellent. I've beaten that one and its sequel. But some people might find it difficult and I would say somebody in the lower grades definitely would. Source: about 1 year ago

Hungry Cat Picross mentions (0)