Summary
A French person named Orteil developed this free, browser-based game. On a friend’s website called DashNet, Orteil released the game on August 8th, 2013 which reportedly took him about 24 days to design and create. It was an instant hit and was called “the game where grandmas bake cookies.”
To play, you must click on the cookie. After enough clicks, you are able to buy various upgrades or cookie creators ranging from auto-cursors to grandmas and more. The game is only about making more cookies.
As simple as it sounds, the game feels very rewarding after your hard work creates a game is self-producing in growing your cookie count. It’s easy to purchase upgrades while doing nearly nothing at all, making this game scarily easy to be addicted to.
Inside the game, there is a news ticker at the top that at first describes a very normal world with normal problems and people are not very interested in the quality of your cookies. However, as you progress with the amount of cookies, the news gets more and more horrific and disturbing. From your own family enjoying your cookies, to royalty loving them, and soon outer space aliens, your cookies get as far as rewriting the fundamental laws of the universe.
On September 15th, the same year as the release, Cookie Clicker made its rounds on Twitter through Japanese users, exploding in popularity. Since it was posted to 4chan, someone cross-posted it to 2ch, which then made its way to Twitter. People started illustrating Cookie Clicker and soon illustrations about the lovable cookie baking grandmas found their way on pixiv. The developer made a comment about how if he knew his game was going to be so popular, he would have added beautiful or cute girls instead.
Cookie Clicker on pixiv
Since the game only features grandmas as actual characters, most illustrations about Cookie Clicker on pixiv feature the grandmas.
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