Cookie Clicker facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Cookie Clicker |
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| Designer(s) | Julien Thiennot, Opti |
| Programmer(s) | Julien Thiennot |
| Platform(s) | Web browser, Android |
| Release date(s) | August 8, 2013 |
| Genre(s) | Incremental |
Cookie Clicker is a fun incremental game created by a French programmer named Julien "Orteil" Thiennot. He made it in 2013. In the game, you start by clicking a big cookie on your screen. Each click earns you one cookie!
You can then use your cookies to buy helpful items. These include "cursors" and other "buildings." These items automatically make more cookies for you. You can also buy "upgrades" to make your clicks and buildings even better. The game has many ways to earn cookies. There's no real ending, but there are hundreds of achievements to unlock. Players often try to reach huge numbers of cookies!
Cookie Clicker is one of the first and most important games in its type. It has a big group of dedicated fans. The first version was made in just one night. But Cookie Clicker is still updated regularly. Many people say the game is very addictive. It's even been noted that the game can almost play itself!
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How to Play Cookie Clicker
At the start, you click the large cookie on the left side of your screen. Each click gives you one cookie. With these cookies, you can buy new items. These items include cursors, grandmas, and farms. They all automatically make cookies for you.
You can also buy upgrades. These upgrades increase how many cookies your buildings or clicks gather. Sometimes, small "golden cookies" appear randomly on the screen. They fade away after a few seconds. If you click them before they disappear, they give you bonus cookies. They can also make your cookie production faster for a short time.
Boosting Your Cookie Production
After earning a lot of cookies, you can "ascend." This means you lose your current progress. But you earn "heavenly chips" and "prestige." These give a permanent boost to your cookie production rate. This helps you make cookies faster in future games.
Other features also help you make more cookies. These include prestige upgrades (unlocked with heavenly chips), "wrinklers," and the Cookie Dragon. There are also minigames and "sugar lumps." These can boost your cookie production. Sometimes they even make cookies when the game is closed!
You can earn "achievements" by completing different tasks or goals. For example, you might reach a certain number of total cookies. Or you might own a specific amount of buildings. Also, special "seasonal events" happen during holidays. These events come with more upgrades and cookies to unlock.
Growing Your Cookie Empire
The game shows amazing growth. You start by baking just a few cookies. But you can quickly reach billions of cookies. Eventually, you can get to numbers like duodecillions of cookies or even more! The game does not have a clear ending.
Because the game's code is quite simple, you can find many cheats and add-ons. Players can use tools like browser consoles and bookmarklets to try them out.
The Story of Cookie Clicker
Julien "Orteil" Thiennot created Cookie Clicker in August 2013. He wrote the game in just one evening. He then shared a link to it on a website called 4chan. Within hours, 50,000 people were playing it!
A month after the game first came out, over 200,000 people played it every day. Orteil later said that traffic reached 1.5 million visits in one day in August 2013. By January 2014, Cookie Clicker was still getting about 225,000 visits each day.
The game has received updates regularly since it was released. Important updates include the "legacy" update in February 2016. Another big one was the "spiritual" update in July 2017. On October 25, 2018, Orteil started a Patreon page for the game. This was to help him work on Cookie Clicker and other games full-time. On August 8, 2019, a mobile version of Cookie Clicker was released for Android phones. This happened after a long wait.
See also
In Spanish: Cookie Clicker para niños
