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# Idle Clicker
A themeable idle game inspired by *Universal Paperclips*. Make units by hand, sell them, automate production, buy upgrades. Runs in any browser (phone, tablet, desktop); progress is saved in cookies and can be exported/imported as a JSON or TXT file.
A themeable idle game inspired by *Universal Paperclips*. Make units by hand, sell them, automate production, buy upgrades. Runs in any browser (phone, tablet, desktop); progress is saved in cookies and can be exported/imported as a JSON or TXT file. There is **one game**: themes (paperclips, witch potions, alien minerals, leaf-piling insects) are only skins, so switching theme keeps every amount.
Zero runtime dependencies: a small Node server (`http` module only) plus a vanilla JS frontend (ES modules).
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## Saves
- Each theme has its own save slot, stored in cookies (`ic_save_<theme>_*`, chunked and base64-encoded because a cookie holds ~4 KB), plus one preferences cookie (theme + language).
- **Save & settings** exports the current theme's save as `.json` or `.txt` (download or copy/paste) and imports either (file picker or pasted text). Imports are validated and sanitised: unknown ids are dropped, numbers clamped.
- One shared game for all themes, stored in cookies (`ic_game_*`, chunked and base64-encoded because a cookie holds ~4 KB), plus one preferences cookie (theme + language). Saves from the first version (one per theme) are merged automatically: the most advanced one is kept.
- **Save & settings** exports the save as `.json` or `.txt` (download or copy/paste) and imports either (file picker or pasted text). The file does not depend on the theme. Imports are validated and sanitised: unknown ids are dropped, numbers clamped.
- Progress continues while the game is closed: up to 8 h, at 50 % efficiency (`public/data/rules.json`).
- Cookies are sent with every request to the server. A save is under 2 KB and there is one per theme, so this stays far below header limits, but it is the reason to keep saves compact.
- Cookies are sent with every request to the server. A save is under 2 KB, far below header limits, but it is the reason to keep saves compact.
## Tuning the game
Everything numeric is in `public/data/`: `rules.json` (market, marketing, offline, autosave), `generators.json`, `upgrades.json`. Customers want `baseDemand × demandMultiplier` units/s at the *fair price* and demand collapses above it, so: raise the price when supply is short, buy marketing/demand upgrades to sell more.
Everything numeric is in `public/data/`: `rules.json` (market, raw material, marketing, offline, autosave), `generators.json`, `upgrades.json`.
- **Selling:** customers want `baseDemand × demandMultiplier` units/s at the *fair price* and demand collapses above it. Raise the price when supply is short; buy marketing/demand upgrades to sell more.
- **Raw material** (wire, herbs…): the price per unit starts high (`startUnitPrice`, about a third of the sale price) and falls towards `floorUnitPrice` as total production grows (economies of scale). Lots grow with the operation, in doublings. The market is erratic: random swings every `updateEverySeconds` plus occasional shortages and gluts (`spikeChance`, `spikeSize`), with ▲/▼ next to the price showing its last move. The auto-buy upgrade is patient: it waits for a fair price unless stock is nearly gone.