Cookie Clicker

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Cookie Clicker is an additional 2013 game created by French programmer Julien "Orteil" Thiennot. The user initially clicks a large cookie on the screen, generating one cookie per click. They can then spend cookies on buildings, which will automatically generate cookies. Improvements can improve the efficiency of clicks and buildings, and other mechanics leads to many other ways in which users can get cookies. Although this game has no ending, it has hundreds of achievements, and the user may aim to achieve important cookie numbers.

This game is one of the first and most important in the incremental game genre and has a dedicated fan base. Although the first version is encoded in one night, Cookie Clicker is updated regularly. It has been widely portrayed as an addiction, and it has been noted that the game barely requires humans to play it. It has a doomsday theme and its gameplay can be attributed to ideas about capitalism.

Video Cookie Clicker

Gameplay

Initially, the player clicks the cookie on the left side of the screen to get one cookie per click. With this cookie, players can purchase "buildings", such as cursors, grandchildren, and farms, which automatically create cookies. Upgrades can be purchased to improve the cookies collected from buildings or clicks. Gold cookies, smaller cookies that appear and fade for a few seconds, appear periodically and give bonus cookies or increase production rates for a short time.

After earning certain cookies, players can restart the game to get heavenly chips and prestige, which will add a permanent boost to the future rate of cookie production. Other mechanics such as prestige improvements (opened with celestial chips), "wrinklers", Dragon Cookies, and minigames can also be used to increase cookie production or generate more cookies in other ways (such as when the game is closed). Achievements can be obtained by completing various tasks, such as producing a certain number of cookies or having a certain number of buildings.

The game features geometric growth - players start baking a handful of cookies, but can quickly reach billions of cookies, and eventually reach duodecillions of cookies or more. The game does not end.

Because the game code is relatively simple, cheats and add-ons are widely available and only implemented using the browser console and bookmarklet.

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History

Julien "Orteil" Thiennot created Cookie Clicker in August 2013. Written in one night, the game was posted on the link in 4chan, and garnered 50,000 players within hours. A month after the game's initial release, it has more than 200,000 players per day. Orteil later wrote that traffic reached 1.5 million clicks in a single day during August 2013, and in January 2014 Cookie Clicker still gets 225,000 clicks per day. The game has been constantly updated since it was released, including a "legacy" update in February 2016 and a "spiritual" update in July 2017.

Cookie Clicker is similar to Cow Clicker , a pre-existing idle game created by Ian Bogost. Bogost has called Cookie Clicker "the logical conclusion of Cow Clicker". Orteil then released other idle games such as: Idle Game Maker, a tool that allows dedicated idle games created without coding knowledge; AdventureQuest Dragons , mobile games created with Artix Entertainment; and Inheritance .

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Analysis

Impact on idle games

In an IGN article, Cookie Clicker is credited as one of the few games that have played a major role in the formation of the idle game genre (also called additional games). An article in The Kernel describes it as the "probably the most famous" game in this genre.

In the Digital Culture & amp; The public, Paolo Ruffino noted that the game is "supposed to be a parody of Farmville" (a popular game that Ruffino thinks can be easily played with algorithms, since the optimal action is always clear), but it is "Equally addictive". Thus, the game "explores the absence of human agents". Ian Bogost, creator of Cow Clicker , also notes that "Cookie Clicker is not a game for humans, but one for computers to play during human watches (or not)." Cookie Clicker has been said by reviewers to be addictive, and fan bases have been described as "obsessive" and "almost cult". Kiberd notes that gaming enthusiasts have shown that their games are bad for the environment (because computers are left around the clock) and lead to reduced efficiency in the workplace.

However, due to their simple mechanics, idle games are also considered by many relatively simple people or, as stated in the IGN article, "super dumb". Games like Cookie Clicker have used this combination of simplicity and complexity to create new genres that some may not even be considered real games. Orteil himself describes his works as "non-game".

Themes

The game has dark humor in the name and description of some improvements, achievements or mechanics, and the theme of dystopia. Examples include the accomplishments entitled "Global Warming" (when owning 100 factories), a news ticker tape reading "New cookie-based religion sweeps the nation." and Grandmapocalypse, where "the screen turns red liquid and the central cookie is attacked by phallic 'wrinklers'".

In The Kernel, Kiberd argues that gaming is "a parable of how capitalism will destroy itself". Kiberd points out that Cookie Clicker is "burdening [the fun concept] with the idea of ​​success, achievement, and productivity", and "using its own form as a critique of the structure of greater expectations and rewards."

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Reception

Justin Davis of IGN describes Cookie Clicker as the biggest Idle Game and says "it may achieve the best balance of power [...] so every step of how you feel like flying, cookies are much faster than before, but you still can not wait until the next major milestone finally gets "Boing Boing review Cookie Clicker as" a highly addictive browser game ". Polygon describes the game as "interesting", and its fan base as "obsessive". Destructoid emphasizes that it's "centered on the pursuit and accumulation of vast wealth", providing players with " illusion , with no substantial progress being made. "

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References

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External links

• Cookie Clicker

Source of the article : Wikipedia