The robots are coming, and their coming for YOUR JOB – so proclaims the trailer for Tomorrow Corporation’s new game 7 Billion Humans. You would possibly know Tomorrow Corporation because the studio behind Little Inferno or World of Goo, however they’ve simply introduced a follow-up to their 2015 programming recreation Human Resource Machine.
HRM was all about automating a single workplace employee’s duties utilizing easy(ish) programming instructions, however 7 Billion Humans kicks issues up a notch and enters the great and intimidating world of parallel computing. Not certain what which means? Me neither! Let’s attempt to determine it out collectively.
Details are skinny on the bottom in the intervening time, with just one line of description on the sport’s announcement post: “Automate swarms of office workers to solve puzzles inside your very own parallel computer made of people.”
What we do have are GIFs. Terrifying, brain-melting GIFs. I imply, what’s… what’s taking place right here?
What’s taking place HERE?
Ok, so I simply had a fast browse of the related Wikipedia page, and might now let you know that parallel computing is carefully associated to concurrent computing, although it’s attainable to have parallelism with out concurrency, and whereas parallelism may be clear to the programmer with bit-level or instruction-level parallelism, parallel algorithms are rather more troublesome to put in writing than sequential ones.
I can’t, nonetheless, let you know what any of these phrases imply. Or how they relate, in any manner, to the GIFs above.
I’ve to confess I’ll be mightily impressed if Tomorrow Corporation can flip these ideas into one thing that’s each comprehensible and enjoyable. When Matt Sayer took a look at games teaching programming, he thought Human Resource Machine did succeed on each counts. If you’ve a budding curiosity in studying how one can code, then that’s nicely value a learn.
Here’s the trailer for 7 Billion Humans, which is enjoyable however reveals little or no extra.
