Idle game thread

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

It’s kind of ironic for the format, idle games are simple but this one is about a complex brain!

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Complex stuff can be explained simply in some cases…

[AnthropocenianAge (𝒜𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓊𝓇𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝓊𝑔!)]

How come no one has mentioned Flappy Bird, assuming the game still exists.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

I mean, it is a click-game but it also requires an admirable amount of skill to fully beat…

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

It isn’t an idle game. It can’t progress in the background automatically, a key feature of idle games.

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What would be an example of a non-clicker idle game?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Antimatter dimensions is a good example, as well as NGU idle.

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What are these two about?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Antimatter dimensions is about creating a comical amount of, well, antimatter, while NGU idle is set in a generic fantasy world where you can fight fluff balls and sticks for some reason.

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What would be the opposite of an idle game?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

The max un-idle ness a game can be is to have your full brain power directed to the game at all times, something impossible if you want it to run in the background.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

It doesn’t have to be run in the background if it’s the opposite of an idle game.
Albeit this sort of “focused on it all the time” could be some kind of “game-ized brainrot”…

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

But this thread isn’t about hypothetical anti-idle games, but idle games. Did you know Orteil (the guy who made cookie clicker) made a simple script thing to make your own idle games?

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Does Dice game count?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

Yes, because it can be run in the background.

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Would some sort of “view countries rise and fall” game-in-the-background count?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

There also has to be a number at the core of the game going up. In a game like that, there is no core number.

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Would the banana game that took over steam sometime ago count as an idle game?

[JustaDumbThriver (He who has the IQ of a half-eaten Wendy's Baconator(tm))]

I’m not sure that ran in the background, so no.

[aah31415 (The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)]

What is the most borderline idle game you can think of?