I’ve heard that there was a Japanese incremental games community before, but this is the first time I’ve come across signs of such a community. Now I’m wondering what’s going on over there.

Aside from the sources you mentioned, I browse the itch page for games tagged incremental. There’s a lot of stuff there which isn’t posted on the other channels, although most aren’t personally engaging to me. Still, I find some gems once in a while.

This week I’ve been replaying Algebraic Progression. It’s much slower than I remember, and I cheated via the console multiple times to get past parts that I found really slow. I guess I’m just accustomed to Squareixion, which for the most part won’t progress unless you actively monitor the game.

This one looks genuinely interesting.

This week I’ve been mainly continuing my run of Antimatter Dimensions NG-5 (you have to go into the settings to find that mod). However, for some reason every github.io page refuses to load for me. I had to go to the page for the repository and download it.

I found a game this week called Our Ascent, which is a “run-based” incremental (aka has a lot more in common with roguelites than most incrementals). I enjoyed it enough to make a post here where I outlined some of my issues with the game. I also joined its discord server (yes I know) where I found that it was inspired by an Android game called “Inflation RPG”. Other people say that another similar game is “Zawia RPG”, also on Android. Too bad I can’t install games on Android…

Lastly, I’ve managed to get past sector 74 in Unnamed Space Idle (there’s also a steam page). A lot of mechanics open up past that point, and in pretty quick succession too. It was a sharp contrast with the pretty long wait I had to endure to get to that point.

This week I’ve been playing lots of Antimatter Dimensions. I decided to pull a save at 1 Reality and start from there, since I feel the game flows better that way. I don’t intend to complete the game, I’ll probably end my run as soon as Automator scripts become required.

I’ve also been playing some mods of that game. Aarex has a collection of mods from before the Reality update. To access all of the mods, you have to go into the “settings” tab, click “load”, then click on the “mods” section in the pop-up. I’ve been playing NG-5, which nerfs you heavily but adds 2 new pre-infinity prestige layers to compensate. I really like this kind of mod, because you get to experience the new content right from the beginning of the game. It’s a bit too slow for me, but I’m okay with that. The alternative, which is adding in one of the mods that buffs me, makes the game too fast and prevents me from appreciating the new content.

I tried playing Antimatter Dimensions: Simplified, which aims to make the content of the Reality Update easier to digest. I like what it’s trying to do, but my problem with it is that it’s too easy - it becomes a test of how quickly I can navigate through the UI. It also doesn’t seem to do anything about the Automator being required at some point in the game. Still, I’ll keep a save of it just in case.

In other news, I’ve been trying to learn the Canvas API in order to replicate the grid in CLEANSED. Progress is slow, but I’m getting there. My current task is making sure that the grid will look clean no matter what font I select or what size it is, which (I think) requires the use of TextMetrics.

Marill?

Sounds fun! I’d reinstall the game if only to be able to help fellow players. Sadly, I can’t download the game now due to restrictions on my device.

This week I played some more of Vepro’s games. In particular, Yet Another Merge Game and Universe Shrinker. Both games have big enough numbers to warrant large number libraries. However, I noticed that in Universe Shrinker the shrinking of universes was represented on an exponential scale but could be easily translated to a linear scale. I guess I could find more examples of this in the “really big numbers” group of incremental games, but that one felt glaringly obvious to me.

I was browsing itch.io for new incremental games this week, and found Centrist Simulator. It seems to be good although it’s short and the appeal looks different from most other incremental games. Haven’t played it yet.

edit: haha I messed up the link format again

My bad, was wondering why it was called “recon”… HACK GROW HACK WEAKEN? What on earth is this madness? Did… did you… did you do this on purpose?

Anyways, I think I’m going to write the essay despite no one asking.

The code is for an incremental RPG programming game called Bitburner, which uses a version of JavaScript that has some additional game-specific APIs and restrictions (the game originally ran in a web browser)

This code in particular is a (flawed) solution to the first problem the game throws at you, which is finding a way to hack as much in-game money as possible from in-game servers. (The problem is more complicated than it appears at first glance, and I’ll try to elaborate if you ask.)

Urghh, now I must post before I leave…