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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/

First off, check out Karma Clicker by @cmi.bsky.social, which nails the 'innocuous premise that quickly goes off the rails' thematic feel of the genre. Also makes clever use of a couple of different intersecting currencies over the arc of the experience. Check it out! 3/ cxmi.itch.io/karma-clicker

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...

You know that moment in a deckbuilder when you have to choose between 3 cards? Olin Gao made a game that's *just* that, over and over, for the whole game. Some fantastic design minimalism. It eventually gets out of control, but its amazing how well the idea works: 7/ radetzky.itch.io/three-card-w...

One of the most formally experimental is @caelangm.bsky.social's 'Finite Infinite Card Game', an incremental game where you're playing a trick taking game with an upgradeable deck, against an opponent who's rolling different kinds of dice. 8/ caelan.itch.io/finite-infin...

There's a lot of cool ideas in @yoyozm.bsky.social's "Pray", which traces a connection between meditative prayer and the repetitive actions of a clicker, while drawing some grand religious ethical questions to their logical conclusions (so, it all goes off the rails, naturally). 9/ ziou.itch.io/pray