Quick Question

[Kayato]

This game have some kind of options??? Because I know they never put any kind of option in theyrs games.

[checkers_of_shalmone]

Nope. Can't set volume nor change resolution.

[Kayato]

I really can't understand why they make all the games like that!!

[Gimlao]

There are options in « %appdata%\Human Resource Machine\settings.txt » :

fullscreen = 0
language = system
volume_music = 1.0
volume_sfx = 1.0
vsync = 1

Only the fullscreen option can be modified in-game.

[Aap op Sokken]

You can toggle the music in-game.

Steam also has a per-game language setting, but it seems to be ignored.

[Gimlao]

Yes, I forgot about the ♫ button. x)

The language tab in the game properties works for me. '-'

[ima420r]

This is stupid, I want to turn down the volume on the game so I can hear some music playing instead. How is there no volume control for sound effects?!? I love the company and their games but it's 2015, get with the times!

[Gimlao]

Maybe they will add the music and sfx volume settings in-game, after some requests. :3

https://twitter.com/Gimlao/status/655560843543842816

[Schmurfy]

that would actually have been a reason for me not to buy this game, having no options at all on PC is just ridiculous, I suppose laziness has no limits if they manage to send their games.

[checkers_of_shalmone]

Originally posted by Gimlao:

Maybe they will add the music and sfx volume settings in-game, after some requests. :3

https://twitter.com/Gimlao/status/655560843543842816

Did you get a response? They seem to be rather active, but I've found contact with them is really unreliable.

[Kayato]

The last 3 games they have made are all without sound and graphic option, so I guess this is "theyrs style".

[Snypar]

Originally posted by Aap op Sokken:

You can toggle the music in-game.

Steam also has a per-game language setting, but it seems to be ignored.

how do you toggle music? never done it before... never HAD to... stupid no control ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[chriskringel]

All settings I could think of (and tested!):

1.) You actually can toggle the *music* in-game on/off (mute/unmute) easily and during play. The button is next to the play button for your program. No in-game option to toggle sound effects off though.

2.) You can toggle fullscreen on/off via F and/or Alt+Enter. If in windowed mode, you can just resize the window to (probably) whatever possible size you can imagine. The game scales very well, also different aspect ratios imho.

3.) In Steam's properties window you can set the language. And this settings option *does* work just fine for me. You can choose from the supported languages listed on the game's store page. If it however doesn't work, check that in %APPDATA%\Human Resource Machine\settings.txt "language = system" is set and nothing else. (you can manually override this entirely, like "= de", "= en", "= fr" and so on.)

4.) While you can toggle music on/off in-game, you can only adjust the volume for each between sound effects and music only in the settings.txt

5.) In settings.txt you can disable vsync. Or leave it enabled. (Some games don't have a working vsync option. So this is a plus.)

For more, plus Mac-specific (and later Linux) config paths see: http://tomorrowcorporation.com/faq#HumanResourceMachine

And I actually like their style with not too much in-game settings. That doesn't mean it's a "mobile port" or "casual" or anything by the way. I quite often read that in a few reviews on the store page. It was first released for PC/Mac/(Linux:TBA) and later for Wii U. And I read an iPad port should follow.

PS: Isn't there a mixer app on Windows to let you set different volumes for different running applications? On Linux I hated PulseAudio, but this specifically is very nice.


yours, -- hopefully helpful settings-justice-warrior ^^
(In most other types of games checking and tinkering with settings is the first thing I do, in other types of games I actually can't have enough settings to change. I love to tinker with the console in Half-Life 2.)

[SadBunny]

Ok so I know I'm resurrecting all kinds of threads on this awesome game now... But by far the worst thing for me it the constant swaying/wobbling. It hurts my eyes and my brain and make me RQ every few minutes. Then the challenges draw me back in. I can't be the only one. At his point I'm just screenshotting the game board, writing my scripts in notepad with the game minimized and the music off, then pasting them in when I'm done. Much better in terms of eye soreness, but man how this game would have been helped by just a few obvious settings like that. Colorblind mode, no swaying mode, volume controls, enable/disable GFX like the mist and particles flying around the office room in later levels... Small, obvious things.

Oh well, they have a new game out now, maybe that's better in those regards as well. (As if :/ But I'm still gonna play the heck out of it :) )