7 Billion Humans is Tomorrow Corporation's programming puzzle game, the follow-up to Human Resource Machine, in which players write little programs to direct entire crowds of office workers at once. Each puzzle is a parallel-computing problem dressed in dark corporate comedy: dozens of employees execute the same instructions simultaneously, so solutions must handle collisions, race conditions, and workers wandering into shredders. The visual programming language introduces real concepts, conditionals, loops, variables, and concurrency, so gently that players learn parallel algorithms without noticing. Optimization challenges for speed and instruction count give experienced programmers surprising depth. Wrapped in the studio's signature hand-drawn style and deadpan satire of white-collar automation, it is among the best games ever made about how code actually thinks.
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