Two Level Museum, the most recent enterprise sim from Two Level Studios, is an engrossing museum administration sport that retains you hooked with fixed rewards. The very act of sending out an archeological workforce to amass extra displays nets you a (completely free) loot field of historic antiquities. Exhibit-buffing gems and extra themed decorations will be unlocked by researching the duplicates you discover.
You’ll even be assigned quests in your path to rating up your museums, and every of those can have a number of aims. Early on, these assignments nudge you to study new sport mechanics or deal with small enhancements to your visitor expertise. These requests and your museums will be fairly fantastical: one museum was situated in a haunted mansion with precise ghosts I wanted to wrangle and my area museum required fastidiously arranging alien artifacts to be able to activate their secrets and techniques. However on my path to a five-star museum, the trickiest problem I confronted was determining the way to pay my workers sufficient.
The precise goal was to achieve “75% pay satisfaction” for all my workers, a stat I admittedly hadn’t been being attentive to. I definitely had workers sometimes complain about their pay and threaten to go away, and a fast elevate took care of that drawback. However attaining this for my complete employees? The place would I discover the cash!?
As colourful and foolish as Two Level Museum can seem, it’s nonetheless a enterprise sim at coronary heart, and this problem pressured me to assume that means… in my workers’ greatest pursuits! My museum ran on a shoestring finances cobbled collectively from grants, donations, and present store gross sales, so I wanted to consider rising all of these money streams and add some extra.
First, I took some inspiration from actual museums and redesigned my present store so my friends needed to cross by means of it to achieve the dinosaur wing, rising foot visitors and gross sales. Subsequent, I grabbed a sponsored poster and caught it subsequent to the toilet — which is to say, I put it in a excessive visitors space the place it wouldn’t detract from my pristine displays. Investigating my museum ranking, which ties instantly into the grant you obtain month-to-month, I discovered that leveling up my worker abilities would really improve my ranking, and the grant. Coaching my workers did improve how a lot pay they desired, however the advantages outweighed the added value. It’s virtually as if investing in your workers makes your online business run higher!
Slowly however certainly, I used to be capable of elevate my wages, which was simple to do within the worker administration window. One button lets me instantly take care of any particular wage complaints by agreeing to a brand new wage, elevating worker pay above the brink the place they’ll grumble about leaving. To go additional, I may proceed to handle every worker’s pay individually, however the sport additionally has a useful “1% elevate” button you may jam a pair occasions when your money circulate appears good. (One thing one thing they need to make that button in actual life one thing one thing.)
Whereas it was robust at first, meticulously managing my finances and slowly elevating my common pay, finally my workers’ larger happiness ranges began enhancing my museum instantly. This suggestions loop rapidly helped pay for all these raises. Lastly, the mission was full and my museum was extra fashionable than ever. What a whimsical idea!
