The Human Resources Manager by Humpert764
You play the Human Resources Manager of the Illuminati: Your planet is running out of space and you have to stop the overpopulation.
To fulfill your job, you have all kinds of crude methods to keep the population small.
Controls:
Look around: W/A/S/D
Speed up: V
Pause: Spacebar
Fullscreen: F11


| Windows | https://humpert764.itch.io/thrm |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/42/the-human-resources-manager |
Ratings
| Overall | 244th | 3.727⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 210th | 3.659⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 406th | 3.364⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 323th | 3.804⭐ | 25🧑⚖️ |
| Graphics | 267th | 3.932⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Audio | 494th | 3.068⭐ | 24🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 78th | 3.857⭐ | 23🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 395th | 3.342⭐ | 21🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 23🗳️ | 12🗨️ |
I was doing good until I tried the plane and... I guess glitched the game?
Other than that, great game :)!
There was one thing that bugged me in my other tries:
I noticed that the upgrade system did not work as intended. The signs say something like '(+30 % with next lvl)' but when you buy an upgrade the value from before gets **multiplied by 30 % = 0.3** (instead of by 1.3 for an increase). For example: Chemtrails 8.0% death reate * 30% = 2.4% death rate for the next lvl. This way all 'upgrades' are in fact downgrades. I then simply decided to buy no upgrades anymore and I was able to beat the game. Maybe this was also an issue for @jk-studio , @heidelbert
You can press V and see the population decimation even faster!
Dark humour, funny concept, well executed and and original take on the theme. Reminded me of that mobile game where you spread viruses. Graphics were nice, though they could do with a little bit of refinement. Good job!
The background music was nice, it was a lot of waiting and just watching a number. The ending is also a bit anticlimactic.
Would be a shame to not make a complete game out of this.
- The plane chemtrail upgrade is quite OP for its price
- It said that the meteor would crash in April of 2118 but I made 2 bil. in August or something and it still let me build a rocket so I guess this is a bug
- Number rounding is sometimes broken so it says like 23.0000001% so that's just a minor bug :P
- And I missed the camera rotation
Good job!
We didn't have time to update/fix anything in the last few days, but we now reuploaded the original version as it was originally released. It's called "THRM_original_release.zip", the version with the fixes and everything is called "THRM.zip".