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Ian Bogost, creator of Cow Clicker, similarly notes that "Cookie Clicker isn't a game for a human, but one for a computer to play while a human watches (or doesn't)." [5] Cookie Clicker has been said by reviewers to be addictive, [1] [2] and its fanbase have been described as "obsessive" [15] and "almost cultish". [2]
Lantz states that exponential growth is another strong theme, saying "The human brain isn't really designed to intuitively understand things like exponential growth" but that Paperclips as a clicker game allows users to "directly engage with these numerical patterns, to hold them in your hands and feel the weight of them."
C. Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (video game) Captain Morgane and the Golden Turtle; Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time; Carol Reed Mysteries; Casebook (video game)
Incremental games gained popularity in 2013 after the success of Cookie Clicker, [3] although earlier games such as Cow Clicker and Candy Box! were based on the same principles. Make It Rain (2014, by Space Inch) was the first major mobile idle game success, although the idle elements in the game were heavily limited, requiring check-ins to ...
Jam City was founded by the Myspace co-founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado. [4] [5] [6] The company launched in 2010 when the co-founders raised US$28 million from Austin Ventures for their business, then called Platform G. [4] [7] Platform G acquired MindJolt, a social gaming platform founded by Richard Fields, in March ...
Cow Clicker is an incremental social network game on Facebook developed by video game researcher Ian Bogost. The game serves as a deconstructive satire of social games. The goal of the game is to earn "clicks" by clicking on a sprite of a cow every six hours.
Clicker Heroes is an idle game that was developed by American independent studio Playsaurus. It was originally released for browsers in 2014, for mobile devices in 2015, and for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 consoles in 2017.
The game was released for macOS and Windows in May 2022 and for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S in November 2022. Norco received positive reviews, with praise directed towards its art, writing and worldbuilding. It was nominated for several awards and won the Long Form Award at A MAZE. / Berlin.