clicker

My wife has clicker trained our cats based on what she found on youtube videos.

Desktop and simple web stuff worked fine, but it died on cookie clicker.

Is there any way that cookie clicker could have been farming CPU cycles?

The thing that defines Cookie Clicker is that it only has improve-stat-get-dopamine mechanics.

So basically the concept is to frame the content with an ad unit for the clicker in order for the person who shortened the url to have the chance of winning an iPod nano?

What made Cookie Clicker fun for me was automating the whole game.

Cookie Clicker really shows how game mechanics by themselves (and boredom or need to take your mind off something) can motivate people to play.

Arrow length is generally fixed if you are using a clicker.

It's an incremental game like cookie clicker or candy box.

Ian Bogost received death threats for removing Cow Clicker online.

I think it's a lot like the theory behind clicker training for animals.

Cookie Clicker has a heavenly chips mechanic, where you essentially reset all progress (except achievements maybe?) in exchange for heavenly chips that give a minor % boost.

That is what Cookie Clicker raises, but with more kinds of "boosts" and whose costs also increase based on how many you've purchased.

You want to get the dog really comfortable with sit, stay and a "warm clicker" (Basically just get them used to the click noise = treat).

There's something for everyone, including lots of short cuts between simultaneous (or flashback) story lines, to keep the pace of "reveals" sufficient for even fidgety, clicker-happy viewers.

"clicker training" is also stimulus control.

Even mundane things, time wasting games like Cookie Clicker, still have some educational value behind them.

Two of us in the office, busy and capable people, became competitive bandits for Cookie Clicker.

It was (not quite, but almost) an early Cookie Clicker.