The Unexpected Philosophical Depths of the Clicker Game Universal Paperclips
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#2Well i've wasted my morning building a paper clip empire.
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#3Well i've wasted my morning building a paper clip empire.
Oh, so you're still only in stage 1 of the game. :-)
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#4I remember starting this game at mid-day and having no idea that I would end up building paperclips well into the night.
What impressed me the most was how the "secret" gradually unfolded, so that you were already hooked and felt a compulsion to continue game play, even after it became clear that this wasn't the innocuous game you thought it was at first.
It led me to build a clicker game that also has more to it than meets the eye. (Shameless self-promotion starts here.) Whereas Universal Paperclips explores the dangers of letting A.I. take over, my game (Unaware, https://unaware.pressbin.com) explores the moral status of people who exist in a simulation.
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#5I played through it like 5 times over a couple of weeks. Great example for mechanics > graphics.
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#7That game really made a huge splash awhile ago, I just so happened to have played through it again on the iPhone. It's just a great game and shows how the idle/incremental genre has a lot of room to grow.
If you like that game I recommend buying A Dark Room, which has a good story behind it and some interesting gameplay elements. Like Paperclips the gameplay changes as you progress.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, so you're still only in stage 1 of the game. :-)
I never got past the later stage... "competition". I should look up to see if there was much more after that and what I missed, since I doubt I'll go through it all again.
Gameplay changes pretty drastically after you unlock drones, and even more-so after that phase.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, so you're still only in stage 1 of the game. :-)
I never got past the later stage... "competition". I should look up to see if there was much more after that and what I missed, since I doubt I'll go through it all again.
I stopped playing prematurely at first because I thought I'd seen everything. You haven't seen it all until the end credits play.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never got past the later stage... "competition". I should look up to see if there was much more after that and what I missed, since I doubt I'll go through it all again.
Gameplay changes pretty drastically after you unlock drones, and even more-so after that phase.
I was past that. By competition I mean the drifters. I was very close to the end, I was just having problems optimizing enough to deal with that specific problem and also running out of time for the day.