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Hey wanna see some cool experimental clicker / idle / incremental games? Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some *incredible* incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work! 1/ 👇📈👇📈👇

(Quick background: The prompt was to make 'recognizably an incremental game', but otherwise open ended. It's a systems design class, so that's the focus. These were all solo projects, made in about five weeks. They're all relatively short-form, generally playable in a single sitting) 2/

Derin Ogut's 'Incremental Island Adventure' is a fun mix of traditional mechanics with some new twists borrowed from other genres, it's a prototype mixing town building mechanics and tile placement with an incremental game: 4/ derin-ogut.itch.io/incremental-...

"you are a writer" by @thewriterwins.bsky.social is a "typing incremental". The typing-as-clicking mechanical premise here works really well, and it's put in service of a great narrative about creative writing, with multiple possible endings! 5/ thewriterwins.itch.io/you-are-a-wr...

I happened to have designer Sam Tian in both my classes this year. As a bit, he kept making variations of the same game at every opportunity he could: a fish-based incremental game. Like the best jokes, it got funnier each time it was repeated. The latest iteration: 6/ samtian.itch.io/a-fish-clicker

Thanks for the shout out!! Markov chain text gen update coming soon 👀