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https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ - you can thank me later
by makach 5y ago
https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/ - you can thank me later
- dspillett 5y agoOr the originator (IIRC) of that piss-take-but-not style of idle game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker
- psyc 5y agoI was working at a big serious game company when this debuted. One day I looked around and every dev on our serious game engine team was alt-tabbing to it while they worked. They were pretending to play it ironically, and I thought it was the dumbest thing I’d ever seen, until I tried it.
- wruza 5y agoI remember “clicker heroes” one. People calculated charts of most effective and fastest upgrades to grow the number. Without that the game seemed pointless to me, you click or wait, so what. That’s partly why I like games like Borderlands or Fallout series. I spend most of the time searching for and testing guns and gear, because it gives you control over situations and alerts when you’re not ready for it.
- makach 5y agoyes, no one expects the grandmapocalypse
- marvin 5y agoI remember I heard Elon Musk criticize this game in an interview once, ~"my kids aren't allowed to play computer games anymore; they play a game called cookies or something, you literally just click on a cookie, it's the dumbest thing ever" and thought it was hilarious. I obviously had to try it, and got hooked straight away.
- animal531 5y agoOh, thanks for nothing!
- dijit 5y agoit's ok, the fun wears off when you realise you can cheat easily by opening the javascript console.
- shrx 5y agoWhy would you cheat?
- duckmysick 5y agoFor one, there's an achievement for it. But more importantly, it will let you reach the end faster, so you spend less time playing it. Which, might be a good thing.
- thunderrabbit 5y agoAnd you have the option of restarting the game, while retaining value from previous play.
- sokoloff 5y agoI must never let my kids see this. I hope they find online porn before this.