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Can someone explain the appeal of this? I'm not going to spend minutes clicking on a button repeatedly. What changes? Is there a story that gets told or somethi

• forgottenpass 11y ago
  It's a cookie clicker. You start by manually gathering 1 by 1, then can incrementally gain the ability and funds to buy faster means of production and spend resources on other goals. I think the way people play these are to leave it running in a tab and check back now and then over the course of a day, and then never look at it again.
  • coldpie 11y ago
    Lol at the downvotes. I'm asking, not judging. What are the "other goals" you mention? How's this different from "for(i=0;;i++) printf("%u\n", i);"?
    • forgottenpass 11y ago
      What are the "other goals" you mention? Just play it for like 10 minutes, try and get as much catnip as possible, and things will be added to the interface. As you get better at managing those systems, even more will be added.
• cheshire137 11y ago
  I don't understand it either. I got to a point where I couldn't buy more of anything and my advisor was warning me I didn't have enough catnip. I left it open with some JavaScript gathering catnip for me, but finally closed the tab when I seemed to be at a standstill.
• splawn 11y ago
  I have played games like this in the past. They are extremely addictive not sure what part of the brain they tap into, but its powerful. However, in the end it sort of boils down to hitting +1 over and over again on a calculator then going "wow look how big the number is now". (Yes, there is usually some minmaxing that allows you to increment faster.) Having said that... I will still probably still end up checking this one out. =P