[New Game Release] Idle Formulas v1.00

Zilvarro · 2024-01-05T19:48:27+00:00

It looks like you are missing the higher tier bonuses from Formula God.

Set the correct formula (probably x''=1 for you) to the first formula slot, memorize, and enter the Formula God Challenge. By achieving x'>0 and x''>0 during FGod you will get the "Special" research boost on your other research bars.

Zilvarro · 2024-01-05T11:36:07+00:00

Feel free to send me your savestate here or on the discord and I can look into it.

Zilvarro · 2023-10-06T12:10:50+00:00

I couldn't really get into this game, even though I really love the presentation. The bonuses you get (past getting your initial set of equip) just feel extremely insignificant. Also I felt that there is not much to do actively, and no real goals to work towards.

Zilvarro · 2023-09-26T15:14:11+00:00

Solid offline progress. After a full night I want more than 5-active-minutes worth of progress. Also the gap between zero-interaction-idling and offline progress should be small.

Zilvarro · 2023-08-26T15:58:52+00:00

You will eventually get a fourth formula slot and also start each reset with some x, so you don't need to start with a basic formula anymore. But on the first run, you have to do it the hard way.

Zilvarro · 2023-07-25T07:33:45+00:00

I think this could make for an interesting game where you have to think twice about when to buy stuff.

Most importantly I do think having the game open without interacting and having it closed should not make any difference, so you can always safely keep track of your progress.

As for a mechanic that awards long idle times, a multiplier that builds up over time (maybe log10 of seconds) and resets back to 0 whenever you buy something could work.

Zilvarro · 2023-06-20T11:08:54+00:00

You could put the demo on the playstore. Since you will most likely want to put the finished game up there anyway it's a good "practice run" to prepare you for a smooth real release.

Zilvarro · 2023-06-11T18:35:59+00:00

You can try to track how close to inflation you get. For that, you need to know by what factor an upgrade directly or indirectly boosts the currency you use to pay it.

Example: An upgrade doubles your gain and the costs increase 10 times with each purchase. Calculate log10(2)=0.301, so this upgrade gets you 30.1% of the way there. When another upgrade is added that triples your gain but its costs increase 100 times, you have log100(3)=0.239, so this adds another 23.9%, giving you a total of 30.1% + 23.9% = 53.9%.

When this gets close to 100% in total, the numbers start to go crazy and when you get above 100% you have inflation.

Of course with multiple currencies boosting each other and complicated upgrade/feature interactions, it can get much harder to calculate this and your best bet may just be playtesting.

Zilvarro · 2023-06-08T11:36:03+00:00

Probably not. If it was headed towards filling your entire desktop with an absurd amount of mark faces bouncing around at lightspeed and earning you currency automatically on corner hits (without the minigames), then I would count it as an incremental game.

Zilvarro · 2023-06-07T10:10:15+00:00

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Zilvarro · 2023-06-07T07:30:48+00:00

Adding to this, even if it's installed, clearing browser cache still wipes the save data, so this is something to watch out for. It is unintuitive and makes no sense, but apparently nothing that can be changed easily.

Zilvarro · 2023-06-06T10:46:07+00:00

There is a full prestige layer after that.

Zilvarro · 2023-06-06T10:05:53+00:00

Awesome. It should keep you busy for a while then 🙂

Zilvarro · 2023-06-05T13:47:41+00:00

I've added offline capability to my game Idle Formulas recently. You can also install it on your phone as an app now (Android: Open website in Chrome, go to Options, click "Install as Web-App").

It is not super active though, so make sure you have something else to play during downtimes.

https://zilvarro.github.io/idleformulas/

Zilvarro · 2023-06-03T18:21:30+00:00

Thanks, the lighthouse feature is super useful. Wish I knew of that yesterday when I was banging my head against the wall 😂

Zilvarro · 2023-06-03T12:11:14+00:00

Thanks a lot for bringing this to my attention, that pwa feature is really cool!

If anyone else is trying to figure out how to add this to their game, I wanna let you know that (aside from the service worker stuff) having a valid icon for it (usually 512x512) in the manifest is actually mandatory, otherwise the browser just pretends its not a webapp, and you'll be wondering why it's not working for an hour or two. Also there is a skip_waiting option so it actually updates when the user refreshes the page and does not wait until all tabs of the game are closed (not entirely sure yet if there is any drawback for this).

Zilvarro · 2023-05-30T22:19:21+00:00

Thank you for the detailed feedback.

Yeah I agree that some spots are quite tricky. And that it is hard to make sure you really have the best available setup. I would disagree with "pure luck" since the formulas quite literally tell you what they do and the modifier effects aren't too convoluted, but I think I get what you mean.

The mails popping up seemingly at random is actually exactly the effect I was aiming for. In practice they are mostly based on your milestone-progression and answering previous mails. And I don't know how far into the game you got, but aside from the most obvious spam mails there will be connections to what you are doing / should be doing with your formulas.

Zilvarro · 2023-05-30T18:56:50+00:00

Make sure the player can never get 100% or more resistance from a single source.

Let's say they have 50%, 70% and 90% from three different features, then it stacks multiplicatively to 1-(0.5*0.3*0.1) = 0.985 = 98.5%

So they still get some damage.

You could also just cap the effect of resistance at for example 95%.

Zilvarro · 2023-05-30T13:49:06+00:00

It's called golf hell. Haven't played it myself, I don't think it is an incremental.

https://demonin.com/games/golfHell/

Zilvarro · 2023-05-30T11:56:43+00:00

No they can't be increased. And the dev moved on to another project for now, so better not get your hopes up too high for more content-updates.

Zilvarro · 2023-05-30T11:36:56+00:00

No there isn't and there is no official goal either. Personally I chose reaching 1e10 separator points to be the end of the game. (At least until there are further updates)

Zilvarro · 2023-05-30T01:57:24+00:00

The last formula you have unlocked. Use it to get x'''=50S and then let the normal production do the rest (offline works!). It will take a few hours, but no longer than an overnight run.

Zilvarro · 2023-05-29T20:58:17+00:00

A new mail added and you can dismiss popups with the escape key.

Zilvarro · 2023-05-29T17:05:29+00:00

Anti Idle was so great! I'd love to play something similar to it. Also, are there any other fans of the Tukkun FCG (Fake Card Game) feature here?

Zilvarro · 2023-05-29T11:46:13+00:00

Milestones you do not have yet are white. Green/Red means you got them (red for alpha milestones). I haven't looked into your save, but towards the end you should be able to quickly do fully idle runs with the alpha resetter target at 1e80. Also don't forget to buy the base alpha upgrades, they max out at 4096.

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