Idle clicker games, also known as incremental games, got popular around 2010 with titles such as 'Cow Clicker' and the infamous 'Cookie Clicker'. Curious to know more I played two modern versions of the genre called 'Egg Inc.' and 'Cell to Singularity'. Then I tried the original Cookie Clicker when I had a few minutes to spare today before class. As the names suggest, these games involve a lot of clicking, or in the case of Egg Inc. a lot of clucking... you could say that the game had many layers. As you pass the levels, things cost more but you make more profits. In Cookie Clicker you can even buy 'grandmas' to help you make cookies. In the end, I concluded that these kind of games are not really games at all, rather they are a kind of interactive media. For example, in Cell to Singularity it was like clicking your way through a University textbook on life science. This small painting is an abstraction of a clicker game, it has some interesting thing in the middle with various supporting structures, and energy-stars are bubbling off the top with each click.
Idle Clicker Art, watercolour 5 x 7" cold press, November 2024
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