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A library that saves the entire Pinia store to local storage sounds the most efficient choice, like pinia-plugin-persistedstate

Note that the library must be able to serialize/deserialize custom types, like bug numbers

• Game view
• Icons for actions
• Icons for prestige

Reported in itch.io by several players:

You can just press release game many times and win... Button just looks disabled.

Yep. I just clicked release game about 5x and won. Good for me.

Later: Okay, as I was writing this I tried to click release on the second game even though the button was grey and my health was no where near the limit (0/50) and the game released! So the main mechanic doesn't work. That's worse.

This could help users to know what's happening. It shall contain at least events :

• Save and load events
• User actions (when buying/making a choice)

For performance issues, it shall only contain the last X lines of log. It can also be collapsed (collapsed by default?)

• Select a CSS framework → Tailwind
• Display a home screen with basic game instructions
  • This is currently displayed in a pop-up, that is always displayed
• Display the game frame
  • Top banner with counters
  • Main frame with each possible actions
  • Bottom frame with "game logs" This will be part of another issue (#16)

• Release conditions
• Release action

Indie developer (level 0)

• Coding: Writing code for the game
• Researching: Learning new technologies and techniques
• Debugging: Tracking down those nasty bugs
• Optimizing: Improving game performance and compatibility

Small Studio (level 1)

• Marketing: Promoting the game to potential customers

Medium Studio (level 2)

• Testing: Testing the game for bugs and errors

Large Studio (level 3)

• Polishing: Adding visual and audio effects to the game

AAA Studio (level 4)

• Hiring: Hiring other developers to join the team

Game Industry Leader (level 5)

• Monetizing: Adding in-app purchases and ads to the game

• Actions that generates money
  • Develop (+ 1𝕔/s)
  • Design new features (+2𝕔/s)
  • Bug fixing (+ 3𝕔/s)
  • Optimize existing features (+ 4𝕔/s)
• Check money balance before allowing actions
• Exponential formula creation for pricing stuff
  • Game design : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CpBMCvsIm3sWbbkwCqbUAIlL-VIuqLiE7T9JmePAuqE/edit#gid=0

• Find-out the best way to implement a game loop
• Implementation at 5 FPS (i.e. values are updated every 200 ms

• Highlight the next action
• Write a short text on the right column about the next action

• Use a .eslintrc.js file with good-looking defaults (reference)
  • Unfortunately, I cannot use hideoo configuration, due to an incompatibility (error being "ESLint couldn't determine the plugin "@typescript-eslint" uniquely.")
• Add stylelint
• Find-out default formatters for VueJS
  • Do I need a new VS Code extension?
  • Can I format properly CSS?

This one looks good : Pear36

• Publishing to a free online host like Vercel?
• Publishing to itch.io if possible

• A non-pixel art for UI
• A pixel-art for game labels

• Something to click on to gain Health or Popularity
• Something to click on to not add bugs

• Game frame
• Menus
• Buttons and cursor
• Favicon

It shall contain :

• Author name (🙋‍♂️)
• Credits for assets
• Link to GitHub
• Version number

This was originally part of the "Settings" menu, but that is better to add another window for that.

• Include VueJS
• Display "Devolution" on the home page
• Remove all default VueJS assets (including images and texts)

Reported on itch.io:

Am I missing something? I can't get my health up to release the second game. Even using relaxation therapy, it drains from 1 to 0 inside the duration of the perk. I have nothing else active, but it seems like the health drain is ridiculously fast as a baseline with only one incredibly ineffectual way to try to raise it.

• Version of package.json
• Last commit (according to this)

• No programming experience needed
• Can be played using mouse only
• Can be played using keyboard only
• Libraries that may be useful:
  • TypeIt
  • react-fake-code-typing
• Inspirations:
  • Hacker Typer: a website that is pretty much the mini-game I have imagined
  • Online Hacker Simulator: there are some cool animations here

• Are they useful?
  • If the tab is not in the foreground, counters are not going up. That's pretty bad for an idle game...
• How?
  • Vite provide a convenient way to load them
  • It seems that workers of type "module" are better, according to this StackOverflow answer

• Ability to save and load progress
  • Through a string to copy/paste
  • Through a file to download/upload
• Auto-save progress (enabled/disabled)
• Ability to hard reset the progress
• In-game options
  • Notation : classic / scientific

Pinia is the main solution for state management using VueJS (reference).

We need to store at least the value of each metric (coin, health, popularity and bugs)

• Create a HtmlLink component
• Add a text for licensing

• Display a reference on About page
• Bind classic key shortcuts
  • Ctrl + , for settings
  • Ctrl + S for saving
• Bind shortcuts for actions

• Player has to select one among 3 choices
  • One of them is a "do nothing"-like but with consequences
  • Sometimes, it is better to select "do-nothing"
• Ability to see the log of previous events
• Consequences must scale on current level
  • Maybe current prestige?
  • Maybe current player balance
• Target : around 15 events to implement
  • Each game will show ~6 events
  • One event for each prestige?
  • One event for each 10 minutes played?

• Total number of coins gained
• Reach 0% and 100% in all metrics
• Total number of spendings

• Ability to display them
  • According to user preferences : normal (in plain english) or using scientific notation → will be part of the Settings task
• Ability to compute with them
  • Add and subtract
  • Multiply
  • Comparison
• Ability to serialize them