Hello everyone, First of all: thank you for checking out FACEMINER! It seems like people are generally enjoying their experience with it, which is really nice to see. This is a mini patch which addresses the most common bugs which have been reported so far. Full list below: - Fix for a few different bugs that were happening with the audio, including the voice message ducking causing strange side effects and settings not being applied between sessions. - Fixed bug where reactors were appearing twice in some endless mode sessions, causing lots of downstream impacts if the shadow-glitch-reactor was purchased (eg an unintentional infinite money glitch*) - Fix for the 'final rank' not triggering in endless mode. Embarrassing! - Fix where opening the logstream at the end of the game would cause some sessions to crash - Add error catching to the manager graph hovering, as a safety precaution - kWh -> kW, MWh -> MW, etc. *An Intentional infinite money glitch can be unlocked by beating the game on the slower difficulty, btw. My apologies to anyone who was inconvenienced by these, and thank you for being an early FACEMINER adopter. Onwards!

[ 2025-03-02 20:52:09 CET ] [ Original post ]

Welcome to FACEMINER, where Every Face Has Value. Your job? Harvest biometric data, optimise computational infrastructure, and expand your data processing empire as hard as Planet Earth can take it.

Set against a backdrop of 90s techno-optimism, FACEMINER is an experimental, narrative-driven management sim that tasks the player with building a planetary scale biometric processing empire from scratch. All from within a suite of vintage software.

WORKLOAD

Manage data-streams, software upgrades, and hardware extensions as you rapidly expand your plant’s infrastructure. Ensure profits remain high and avoid bankruptcy (or worse) as you navigate oppressive electricity bills, high-maintenance cooling systems, and crooked politically-enforced carbon offsetting schemes.

CORPORATE CULTURE

Mining alone is no fun! Learn more about your fellow miners and keep up to date with the office gossip through internal email. Sift through messages to unravel the mysteries – and ultimate plans – of the shadowy creators of the FACEMINER software suite.

GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES

Climb the corporate ladder and gradually rise through the ranks as you are promoted from manual data-filtering rookie through to the ultimate harvesting automator as you classify and sell facial data at ever-increasing speeds. The world of data brokering is ruthless, and poor prioritisation can lead to costly mistakes down the line. Do you have what it takes to climb the ranks and become the ultimate FACEMINER?

Remember: Every Face Has Value.