Digital Tech: Clicker Games

Digital Tech: Clicker Games

1. Existing Solutions

   • Cookie Clicker
     • A game all about clicking a cookie and ascending to become a cookie god.
     • Has upgrades like farms and factories that boost cookie production.
     • Has many achievements and secrets to find in the game.

2. Game Name + Context

   • Choccy Milk Tycoon
     • Click a chocolate milk
     • The game will follow clicking a chocolate milk and upgrading the chocolate milk to different flavours of chocolate (mint chocolate, dark chocolate).
     • Sell the chocolate milk for upgrades.
     • Achievements which involve buying and selling chocolate milk + buying upgrades
       • "Like Me": Make 9999999999999999999999999999 chocolate milk's
       • "When I wake up in the morning and I step outside": Click the chocolate milk once
     • Upgrades other than chocolate milk?
       • Chocolate milk pond's
       • Chocolate milk river's

3. Aesthetics

   • Brown writing.
   • At least 3 buttons in the shop.
   • Brown chocolate milk to click.
   • A popup appears when an achievement is completed.

4. Game Features

   • Achievments
     • Once a challenge has been completed, a popup will appear gifting the player a certain amount of chocolate milk or upgrade for free. They can be easy or very difficult to complete.
   • Clicking
     • The main game is all about clicking the chocolate milk and saving for upgrades in order to fully complete the game.
   • Upgrades
     • Once you reach a certain amount of chocolate milk, you can use it to buy upgrades to increase the rate of gaining chocolate milk, such as creating chocolate milk pond's and oceans.

5. User Experiences

   • Clicking
     • Self explanatory, and very easy to do, meaning the grind will not be too long for the player.
   • Achievements
     • Will give an incentive for players to keep playing to 100% the game, holding their retention and making the game more addictive.
   • Upgrades
     • Something that the player can work for in order to complete the game, and can be stacked endlessly. This can help engage the player and fuel their imagination of how much chocolate milk they can make.

6. Pro's/Con's

   • Pros
     • Room for adding loads of upgrades.
     • Many places achievements could be added.
     • Not hard to code and easy to build up and make into a more complex game.
   • Cons
     • Aesthetics may not look as good as other clicker games.
     • Game may have no end limit, meaning that the end game progress might be boring and too long.