Spaceplan

http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/

by dcminter • 10 years ago

252 66 10 years ago

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erdevs3• 10 years ago

I think I like it more than No Man's Sky. But I'm suing you for carpel tunnel.

Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

karshan• 10 years ago

If you wanna avoid carpel tunnel, window.setInterval(kinetigenClick, 1) :P

erdevs3• 10 years ago

I always feel cheat codes don't let me experience the game as its designer intended. But... always tempting. :)

verelo2• 10 years ago

or even less annoying:

var x = 0; while(x < 10000) { x++; kinetigenClick(); kinetigenRelease(); }

pmontra• 10 years ago

Or open with a tablet, I couldn't do anything.

arawde• 10 years ago

Beautifully done :)

mablap• 10 years ago

Here are some useful shortcuts:

power = n; (where n is whatever you need)

sol.mass = 3e7;

Cool game!

rotomatt• 10 years ago

хороший один товарищ

DblPlusUngood2• 10 years ago

Obviously a direct translation from English to Russian -- I doubt a Russian would ever actually say this.

They should change it to: молодец.

terminado2• 10 years ago

Неплохо, товарищ

nyxtom• 10 years ago

Great game! Thanks for sharing :D

ORioN63• 10 years ago

Why do you keep doing this? :(

You put a clicker in front of me and baam. Lost a hour.

monk_e_boy• 10 years ago

Loading 'Cookie' library -- haha, nice. Lost a lot of time to cookie clicker

DblPlusUngood2• 10 years ago

Never before have I been so eager to shoot potatoes into the sun.

c3RlcGhlbnI_• 10 years ago

Cool, but does a clicker game really need to use 4 cores?

oxplot• 10 years ago

so I did `for i in {1..10000}; do xdotool click 1; done` and ... the game crashed :(

christiangenco4• 10 years ago

Do `setInterval(kinetigenClick, 1)` instead.

gozur88• 10 years ago

Surprisingly addictive.

erdevs3• 10 years ago

Okay, now that more people have played, what is everyone's fastest time getting to the end (without cheats)?

Fun game concept!

taneq2• 10 years ago

Took me about four hours, toward the end I was playing it more like a Tamagotchi (click the buttons every now and then and then leave it to rack up more power).

Also [[SPOILERS]] the ending sequence wedged after 'go be a hero', luckily when I refreshed the page it put me back to just before the black hole bit. Maybe it broke because I was on the solar system view and not the planet view or something? It worked the second time anyway.

rurban2• 10 years ago

Love potatoes. And saved the world in 2 hours. (without cheating)

transfire2• 10 years ago

Hmm... I seriously doubt that's possible. How?

stepik777• 10 years ago

Why do we accumulate watts? That's stupid.

rurban2• 10 years ago

Check Tipler. We won't need them now, we would be even much better off to save more, but we would need them to save the world on the galactic scale.

terminado2• 10 years ago

C'mon man, what's it take to post a link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler

christiangenco4• 10 years ago

I love it! Found myself doing mental calculations for the most effective thing to buy next, and the next thing I knew I'd written a script to automatically buy it:

    var clickBestThing = function(){
       var things = [...document.querySelectorAll("#manufacture__container > div")].map(function(e){
        var res = {e};
        [...e.getElementsByTagName("span")].map(function(s){
          res[s.id] = +s.innerText.replace(/[^0-9]/g, '')
        })
        if(e.id === "item__spudGun" || e.id === "item__potatoLauncher") res.powerGain *= 1000;
        res.score = res.cost / res.powerGain;
        // res.score = res.cost / res.spudGain;
        res.name = e.getElementsByClassName("manufacture__name")[0].innerText;
        return res
      }).sort(function(a,b){return a.score - b.score})

      window.things = things;

      var bestThing = things[0];
      if(!things[things.length-1].score) bestThing = things[things.length-1]
      console.info("clicking " + bestThing.name)
      things[0].e.click();
    }
    var timer = setInterval(clickBestThing, 5000)

Of course it's much easier to `power = 999...`, but this feels more like automation and less like cheating.

drewamox• 10 years ago

Typical Noob idiot coming through, first of all i've got to praise you for doing that the amount of effort that took must be high, but being the typical noob idiot I am I have to also wonder how I actually use this? reply

christiangenco4• 10 years ago

No need to be self deprecating - this isn't 4chan :)

Copy and paste the code in your browser's javascript console. In Chrome it's under View/Developer/JavaScript Console.

For a good intro on how this works: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/h...

niix• 10 years ago

Nice! After clicking the button a few times my first inclination was also to open the console and see how I could make my life easier.

TusanHomichi• 10 years ago

You can actually improve this a little with a better scoring function. Suppose we currently produce p, and A costs cA, for a power gain of pA. Likewise for B. Under the assumption that we will buy at least one more of A and B, we can look at whether A then B or B then A is faster, which is:

cA/p + cB/(p+pA) < cB/p + cA/(p+pA)

Solving this, we get cA * (p+pA)/pA < cB * (p+pB)/pB Since the left side is all in A, if we pick the item minimizing that quantity, it is faster to buy it before any other item. So changing res.score to be res.cost * (cur_power + res.powerGain)/res.powerGain is going to be a bit faster

christiangenco4• 10 years ago

Ahh of course! I had the thought to take this into account but couldn't wrap my head around the math last night.

cA/p is just the time it would take to earn the money to buy A at the current production level - seems much simpler now.

I think the last term should be `cA/(p+pB)`. When I solve from there[1] I get `cB * pB < cA * pA`, which means that the most optimal item A will have the largest product `cA * pA`.

This would translate to:

    res.score = res.cost*res.powerGain
    ...
    }).sort(function(a,b){return b.score - a.score})

Does that check out? It seems too simple, and now that I'm thinking more about it I think this would be functionally equal to what I already have. Did I do my inequality[1] wrong?

1. http://i.imgur.com/pyMY3zr.jpg

thexa4• 10 years ago

Slight modification so it doesn't automatically buys the item but just highlights the best one

https://gist.github.com/thexa4/2da63028a1d8007dedbd0ba9432c8...

smaddox• 10 years ago

Fixed for latest version: https://gist.github.com/scott-maddox/dadb6c74f3e5db98aad6bba...

djhworld• 10 years ago

Frighteningly addictive.

new299• 10 years ago

I might just be tired and dense. But does watts per second make sense here? Shouldn't the accumulated power be in joules (or Watt hours?) and the per second value just be watts?

rzzzt• 10 years ago

In our universe, energy would be accumulated (measured in joules or watt-seconds), and each upgrade bought would produce more power (measured in watts or joules per second). But the game might be taking place in an alternate timeline where James Joule and James Watt were switched at birth (also born at the same time).

TaylorAlexander• 10 years ago

This is the best explanation.

david-given• 10 years ago

Yes. Yes it should.

...I'd complain but I'm too busy micromanaging space potatoes.

buremba• 10 years ago

nice ending scene with pomme de terre.

rcarmo• 10 years ago

This is bloody amazing. Best way to spend a quiet Saturday morning :)

hijp• 10 years ago

Nicely done! I just finished with no cheats and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

The level of polish is what kept me clicking 285 times just to 'start' the game. Very cool.

omginternets2• 10 years ago

How do I obtain the planet boosters?

Also, thanks for ruining my dissertation...

lionyo• 10 years ago

Click "System Peeker" in the top middle of the screen, under "Planet Looker"

josscrowcroft• 10 years ago

There goes my Saturday morning! Time to go stick my wrists in a bucket of ice.

Kudos to the developers. Really lovely game, intuitive and entertaining, well-built.

taneq2• 10 years ago

Why is everyone clicking so much? Once you get your first few 'taters the extra gain from clicking is so small as to be pointless.

tgibson• 10 years ago

Once I figured there would be lots of clicking, I went into the console and typed the following to automate the Kinetigen:

var ki = setInterval(function() { kinetigenClick(); kinetigenRelease(); }, 10);

Then later on at a certain point in the game, I had to stop it:

clearInterval(ki);

mrblackbull• 10 years ago

Tried pasting your code into the console, but i'm getting the following error:

(program):1 Uncaught ReferenceError: kinetigenClick is not defined

What am I doing wrong?

wodenokoto• 10 years ago

Looks like Cookie clicker [1]

[1] http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

runevault• 10 years ago

It's basically cookie clicker with an actual plot and an ending.

makkesk8• 10 years ago

Pomme de terra

wanda• 10 years ago

Reminds me of Larry Niven's Ringworld, or more specifically the Puppeteers and their planet-ships fleeing the galaxy.

twic• 10 years ago

For me, it was Liu Cixin's 'The Wandering Earth', with a heavy dose of Stephen Baxter hard-SF (ish) cosmic madness. And potatoes.

itsjoesullivan• 10 years ago

Very fun! Only cheated a little.

omginternets2• 10 years ago

Is this a Latvian game studio?

leovander• 10 years ago

And here's the Stranger Things Soundtrack[1] to play in the background.

[1] https://youtu.be/5sy2qLtrQQQ

tdburn• 10 years ago

Loved it

transfire2• 10 years ago

POMME DE TERRE

arnorhs• 10 years ago

A really well executed Incremental game[1] and the best part about it is that it has an ending. Even a retro end-game sequence. Well done. I really enjoyed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game

kristianp• 10 years ago

See Cookie Clicker for the original (or early) quirky game: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

threepipeproblm• 10 years ago

I learned so much about myself. Time to cook some potatoes.

evantahler• 10 years ago

Just came back to this... they've done a very good job of blocking "click" automation!

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