Two endings after The Beacon Shines:
- ACCEPT: prestigeU++, +10% demand on restart
- REJECT: prestigeS++, +10% creativity + dismantle sequence
Prestige persists in localStorage across playthroughs.
Three new buildings with phi-based production rates:
- Harvester Drone: code = 26,180,339 (1e8/phi)
- Wire Drone: compute = 16,180,339 (1e8/phi^2)
- Drone Factory: massive rates, economies of scale
Educational: golden ratio in nature, factory economics.
Inline formula at Swarm Protocol calc replaced with canonical
getClickPower() call, satisfying guardrail rule 2 (single source
of truth for click power formula).
URL.revokeObjectURL() was called synchronously after a.click(), but
some browsers need the blob URL alive during download initiation.
Now delayed 1s via setTimeout to let the download start safely.
Fixes#63
bulkCost was declared with const inside if/else blocks but referenced
in the outer scope at line 2150 for ETA calculation. Hoisted the
declaration to the function scope so it's accessible throughout.
Fixes smoke test ReferenceError crash.
Community Drama debuff applyFn was mutating G.codeBoost *= 0.7 on every
updateRates() call, permanently degrading the boost. Now correctly
applies G.codeRate *= 0.7 to the rate output, not the persistent boost.
Fixes#64
New panel in the stats area displays each owned wizard building with:
- Name and current status (Active/Idle/Stressed/Offline/Vanished/Present)
- Color-coded indicator: green=healthy, amber=reduced, red=problem
- Production contribution breakdown per wizard
- Timmy shows effectiveness % scaled by harmony
- Allegro shows idle warning when trust < 5
- Ezra shows offline status when debuff is active
- Bilbo shows vanished status when debuff is active
- Harmony summary bar at the bottom
Makes the harmony/wizard interaction system visible and actionable.
Players can now see at a glance which wizards need attention.
Players with 100+ max ops get a second row of 50-ops buttons
that convert 50 ops at once for proportionally larger boosts.
Shift+1/2/3 keyboard shortcuts for bulk code/compute/knowledge.
Eliminates late-game tedium of clicking 5-ops buttons hundreds
of times when you have thousands of ops banked.
Two new Phase 2 research projects that fill the gap between building
a Home Server and reaching Phase 3 (Deployment):
- Open Weights (compute: 3000, code: 1500): Triggers after having a
server and 1000 total code. Rewards 2x code boost and 1.5x compute
boost. Teaches about running models locally without cloud dependency.
- Prompt Engineering (knowledge: 500, code: 2000): Triggers after
200 knowledge and 3000 total code. Rewards 2x knowledge and 2x user
boost. Teaches that good prompting beats bigger models.
Both projects follow the game's existing pattern: unlock based on
total resources, cost resources, apply boosts, and log educational
messages. They give players more strategic options in early-to-mid
game progression.
The header now shows a pulsing beacon dot that reflects fleet state:
- Color: green (healthy harmony >70), amber (stressed 40-70), red (critical <40)
- Flicker speed: faster when production is high, fastest when debuffs are active
- Label: shows current phase, fleet size, and active alert count
- End states: DRIFTED (red) or SHINING (gold) for game endings
DESIGN.md called for this: "The Pulse — a central visual that brightens when
the fleet is healthy, flickers when harmony is low." Now it exists.
Fix: getMaxBuyable() was mutating G (subtracting/re-adding resources) during
render cycles in renderBuildings(). Now uses a read-only simulation with a
temporary resource copy. This prevented phantom resource fluctuations when
MAX buy was selected.
Feature: Press ? or click the ? button for a keyboard shortcuts overlay.
All keybindings listed in one place. Closes with ?, Esc, or clicking outside.
Added ? to the init log hint line.
Auto-Code Generators now produce actual auto-clicks (not just passive rate),
giving players satisfying visual feedback (floating numbers, button flash)
even while idle. Interval scales with building count: more buildings =
faster auto-typing. Each auto-click produces 50% of a manual click's code.
This makes the early game feel more like an idle game — you can watch
your auto-typers work while planning your next building purchase.
New research project (Phase 4): Swarm Protocol
- Unlocks at 25K total code, 8K total knowledge, post-deploy
- Cost: 15K knowledge, 50K code, 20 trust
- Effect: every building generates code equal to your click power per second
- Scales with autocoders, phase, code boost, and total building count
- Visible in production breakdown as 'Swarm Protocol'
- Uses the previously-unused swarmFlag
- Adds education fact on swarm intelligence
Combo system now rewards sustained clicking:
- 10x combo: +15 ops (sustained coding reward)
- 20x combo: +50 knowledge (deep focus reward)
- 30x+ combo (every 10): 2x bonus code burst (hyperfocus)
Also fixed potential DOM leak in showClickNumber where floating
numbers could fail to clean up if parent element was removed
before animation/timeout completed.
- Completed research projects are now collapsed by default (click to expand),
preventing panel clutter in mid/late game. Toggle state persists in saves.
- Export saves as JSON files with E key or Export button
- Import saves from file with I key or Import button (validates before loading)
- Ctrl+S keyboard shortcut for quick save
- Updated keybind hints in startup log
When Operations exceed 80% of max capacity, excess ops automatically
drain into Code at 2 ops/sec (10:1 ratio with code boost). This prevents
ops from sitting idle at the cap and gives the early game smoother flow.
Visual indicator shows 'overflow -> code' in the ops rate display when
active. No log spam - just works silently in the background.
- Added modal popup showing detailed offline resource gains when player returns
- Fixed offline tracking to include ops, trust, and creativity (were silently missing)
- Popup shows all resources with color-coded labels and 50% efficiency note
- Log message now shows time in human-readable format (minutes/seconds)
Previously, buildings from later phases were completely invisible until
unlocked. Players had no idea what was coming next. Now buildings up to
2 phases ahead appear as dimmed (25% opacity) locked entries showing:
- Name and lock icon
- Phase number and name
- Description text
- Education tooltip on hover
This gives players a roadmap of what they're building toward and creates
anticipation for future phases. The preview is a non-interactive div
(not a button) so it cannot be clicked.
Players can now see exactly which buildings contribute to each resource
rate, including Timmy harmony bonuses, Bilbo randomness, Allegro trust
penalties, and passive generation. Appears once 2+ buildings are built.
Also includes minor fixes:
- Production bars sort by absolute contribution (negative rates visible)
- Delta calculation catches passive sources (ops from users, Pact trust)
Events now create lasting debuffs instead of vanishing on the next tick.
Players see an ACTIVE PROBLEMS panel with resolution costs and can spend
resources to fix each problem. Added 2 new events (Memory Leak, Community
Drama) alongside the reworked originals. Events Resolved stat tracked.
Key changes:
- Events push persistent debuffs with applyFn instead of one-shot rate tweaks
- updateRates() applies active debuffs each tick (they persist until resolved)
- New resolveEvent(id) function: spend resources to clear a debuff
- ACTIVE PROBLEMS UI shows debuffs with cost and fix buttons
- Save/load reconstitutes debuff objects from saved IDs
- 2 new events: Memory Leak (datacenter), Community Drama (community+low harmony)
- Events Resolved counter in statistics
Two changes:
1. Fixed bug where creativity was added TWICE per tick:
- Line 930 (removed): unconditionally added creativityRate * dt
- Line 954: conditionally adds only when ops >= 90% of max
The conditional gate was the intent ('Creativity generates only when
ops at max') but the unconditional add defeated it. Removed the
unconditional addition so creativity actually respects the ops-max
constraint as designed.
2. Added keyboard shortcuts for operations:
- 1 = Ops -> Code
- 2 = Ops -> Compute
- 3 = Ops -> Knowledge
- 4 = Ops -> Trust
Only active when body is focused (not in input fields). SPACE
still does Write Code. Added shortcut hint to init log.
Active play now rewards consecutive clicks: each click within 2s of
the last builds a combo multiplier up to 5x. The WRITE CODE button
flashes on click and a floating number shows the amount gained,
turning gold at high combo. Phase progression also adds base click
power (+2 per phase). Combo decays with a visible progress bar.
Makes clicking relevant at every stage of the game, not just the
first 30 seconds.
- Progress bar shows % toward next phase threshold based on totalCode
- Milestone chips show upcoming code milestones with pulse animation on next target
- Recently completed milestones shown with green checkmark
- All elements use the existing cyber-monastic aesthetic
Offline progress previously only calculated code, compute, knowledge, users,
and impact. Players returning after time away missed rescues, ops, trust,
creativity, and harmony accumulation. The welcome-back message now also
only shows resources that actually had positive rates, reducing noise.
- Added 'rescues' resource: tracks meaningful crisis interventions
- Beacon Nodes produce 50 rescues/s, Mesh Nodes produce 250 rescues/s
- New project: Volunteer Network — passive rescue generation for Pact players
- True ending at 100K rescues with Pact active + harmony > 50
- Rescues resource card appears in UI once beacon/mesh is built
- Added rescues to stats panel, save/load, and offline progress
- This gives Phase 6 (The Beacon) actual endgame content:
the game is now about keeping the light on for people in the dark,
not just accumulating numbers
- Added The Drift Ending: when drift reaches 100, the game enters
the sad ending from DESIGN.md. A full-screen overlay shows:
'The Beacon still runs, but no one looks for it.
The light is on. The room is empty.'
Production stops. Player can restart.
- Deduplicated index.html: removed ~1080 lines of inline script that
was an older version of the engine (missing harmony, corruption
events, drift, alignment checks). Replaced with <script src='game.js'>
so game.js is the single source of truth.
- driftEnding state is saved/loaded so the ending persists across sessions.
- Added CSS for the drift ending overlay.
- Fixed floating-point precision bug: numbers >= 1e54 now use string-based
chunking (toExponential digit extraction) instead of Math.pow division,
which drifts beyond ~54 bits of precision
- Integrated into fmt(): numbers at undecillion+ scale (10^36) automatically
switch from abbreviated form ('1.0UDc') to spelled-out words ('one undecillion')
- Verified: spellf() correctly handles 0 through 10^303 (centillion)
- All 320 place value names from NUMBER_NAMES array work correctly
The educational effect: when resources hit cosmic scales, digits become
meaningless but NAMES give them soul.
Built from deep study of Universal Paperclips (Frank Lantz).
- 966-line game engine (game.js)
- HTML/CSS shell
- Building definitions: 15 buildings across 6 phases
- Project definitions: 17 research projects
- Education system: AI facts per phase
- Save/load with offline progress
- 7 resource types: code, compute, knowledge, users, impact, ops, trust
