#Trimps game hacked console series#

The mathematical tapestries that get overlaid on one another, that's what I find interesting. The thing that interests me in them seems to have only been tangentially touched upon, though. I've always liked clicker games, and there is a very long-running instance of Cookie Clicker running in my browser at home right now. What exactly will they want to take from us?) They could tick away at one cycle every 500 years and be perfectly content. They don't need space, food, water, or even time. (Most reasonable fears of AI are fears around what we will use it to do to others, not what it will do to us, as all conflict is driven by resource contention and machine intelligences would be so profoundly different in their needs than ourselves that there would be almost no overlap to contend over. The notion of the Paperclip AI that destroys humanity to build paperclips is a sublime illustration of how badly computer scientists need to take a few philosophy courses to broaden their thinking, as is its facile allure. I missed out on Universal Paperclips, but I immediately love the idea.

For me at least, the last thing i need is a bunch of numbers and bars with a button to fill them. Thousands of hours thinking about and managing imaginary numbers.

#Trimps game hacked console series#

Games like the diablo series and other action rpgs, the civilization games, a whole bunch of real time and turn based strategies, just about every jrpg on every console, a good majority of earlier computer rpgs and some recent ones, 4x strategy games, space sims and lots more. I've wasted a lot of time on things like that. I've spent way too long playing games about managing numbers, but i fail to do this effectively in life and i realize i end up spending way too much time sucked into imaginary worlds and not enough time focused on things i should. I try to limit my gaming to platformers and arcade type games these days. I'll play fortresses until it takes ten minutes to do shit from fps death or spend several evenings in Cataclysm building a base and collecting food and resources and crap. I get into dwarf fortress and CDDA every once in a while until i start to realize how much time i waste on them. I realized one day i'd played for several hours but had done nothing but craft things and organize my storage and inventory. I've realized through personal experience, I get too into games with experience, status bars and things to manage. I've gotta admit, I've avoided anything with clicker in the description these days because of that experience. Some clicker-games have this awful behavior, but the good ones tend to avoid it. Honestly, the dumb skinner-box grind is far more present in mainstream games (MMORPGs, Loot Crates). In Universal Paperclips, you build a few paperclips one-at-a-time at the beginning of the game. There's just a 'click' mechanic to connect the player with the absolute baseline activity of the game. Clicker Heroes does have an infinite grind however, so it loses points in my eyes.Īll in all, a clicker-game is simply a management game, like Sim City. As you purchase heroes, the game is more about figuring out the optimal distribution of hero levels.

Which is why I consider it to be one of the better clicker games.Ĭlicker Heroes also manages to make the jump into a solid management simulator. So you're 'free' once you see the ending (unlike a lot of other games). In a similar way, Universal Paperclips is a management game, and with an ending to boot.

The 'clicks' are there to give a sense of scale (it takes ~2 seconds for a beginning player to mine 1-iron). Of course, Factorio is a management game, but at its core, its a clicker game (click to mine Iron / Copper / Stone).įactorio becomes recognized as a good Management game because although the 'clicker' mechanic exists to mine stuff, it isn't actually how the player is supposed to play. Instead, a good clicker game is really a management simulator.įactorio is probably the best example: build your factory correctly, and you never have to lift a finger to do any work at all. However, a GOOD clicker game (such as one with Universal Paperclips) recognizes that the genre is not about dopamine rushes. That's certainly one way to think about clicker games, and it probably applies to most clicker games I know of.