[Discuss] The Design of Clicker Games!

wccrawford · Jul 24, 2017

KunoNoOni said: ↑

Sorry to necro this over 7 month old thread but I was curious about the actual creation of the variables. I've seen also of tutorials on how to make these types of games and I don't understand why people use Floats and Int. Ints can only go from -2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647 while a float can go from -3.402823e38 to 3.402823e38, which is -162142051655736711558.36628676024 to 162142051655736711558.36628676024 if I did that right. From what I've seen these games can count very high, higher than an int can go, which is just over 2 billion (10^9), and a float, which is over 162 quintillion (10^18). In my mind a decimel would seem to be better as it goes to over 72 octillions (10^27). Unless I'm missing something and it is very possible that I am. How are they able to display such large numbers?
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Google for "floating point inaccuracy" and you'll find a lot about this subject and why you'd choose one over the other.

OneApk · Aug 2, 2017

Gigiwoo said: ↑

The Design Elements of Clicker Games!

Ian Bogost was mad at the game industry! He felt modern games were making a mockery of everything he loved. So, he made a spoof called Cow Clicker with only one mechanic - click a cow, once every six hours. He released it to Facebook and began to write about it, hoping to change the industry. And, overtime, people took notice. Some came to look and said, 'Yeah! You show 'em!' and some came ... and played. More came, and more, until it became so popular he was compelled to remove it entirely!

Whether Bogost deserves the credit or not, there's no question that clicker games, aka "Incremental Games", have become their own genre. Today, there are hundreds of clicker games, on all sorts of devices! Of course, the most famous is Cookie Clicker and arguably, one of most beautiful is Clicker Heroes.

The question is ... what can we learn about game design from clicker games?

Gigi
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