Spaceplan(jhollands.co.uk)

252 pointsby dcminterقبل 10 سنوات66 comments

jhollands.co.uk

http://jhollands.co.uk/spaceplan/

69 comments

I love it! Found myself doing mental calculations for the most effective thing to buy next, and the next thing I knew I'd written a script to automatically buy it:

    var clickBestThing = function(){
       var things = [...document.querySelectorAll("#manufacture__container > div")].map(function(e){
        var res = {e};
        [...e.getElementsByTagName("span")].map(function(s){
          res[s.id] = +s.innerText.replace(/[^0-9]/g, '')
        })
        if(e.id === "item__spudGun" || e.id === "item__potatoLauncher") res.powerGain *= 1000;
        res.score = res.cost / res.powerGain;
        // res.score = res.cost / res.spudGain;
        res.name = e.getElementsByClassName("manufacture__name")[0].innerText;
        return res
      }).sort(function(a,b){return a.score - b.score})

      window.things = things;

      var bestThing = things[0];
      if(!things[things.length-1].score) bestThing = things[things.length-1]
      console.info("clicking " + bestThing.name)
      things[0].e.click();
    }
    var timer = setInterval(clickBestThing, 5000)

Of course it's much easier to `power = 999...`, but this feels more like automation and less like cheating.

TusanHomichiقبل 10 سنوات

You can actually improve this a little with a better scoring function. Suppose we currently produce p, and A costs cA, for a power gain of pA. Likewise for B. Under the assumption that we will buy at least one more of A and B, we can look at whether A then B or B then A is faster, which is:

cA/p + cB/(p+pA) < cB/p + cA/(p+pA)

Solving this, we get cA * (p+pA)/pA < cB * (p+pB)/pB Since the left side is all in A, if we pick the item minimizing that quantity, it is faster to buy it before any other item. So changing res.score to be res.cost * (cur_power + res.powerGain)/res.powerGain is going to be a bit faster

christiangencoقبل 10 سنوات

Ahh of course! I had the thought to take this into account but couldn't wrap my head around the math last night.

cA/p is just the time it would take to earn the money to buy A at the current production level - seems much simpler now.

I think the last term should be `cA/(p+pB)`. When I solve from there[1] I get `cB * pB < cA * pA`, which means that the most optimal item A will have the largest product `cA * pA`.

This would translate to:

    res.score = res.cost*res.powerGain
    ...
    }).sort(function(a,b){return b.score - a.score})

Does that check out? It seems too simple, and now that I'm thinking more about it I think this would be functionally equal to what I already have. Did I do my inequality[1] wrong?

1. http://i.imgur.com/pyMY3zr.jpg

thexa4قبل 10 سنوات

Slight modification so it doesn't automatically buys the item but just highlights the best one

https://gist.github.com/thexa4/2da63028a1d8007dedbd0ba9432c8...

smaddoxقبل 10 سنوات

Fixed for latest version: https://gist.github.com/scott-maddox/dadb6c74f3e5db98aad6bba...

niixقبل 10 سنوات

Nice! After clicking the button a few times my first inclination was also to open the console and see how I could make my life easier.

drewamoxقبل 10 سنوات

Typical Noob idiot coming through, first of all i've got to praise you for doing that the amount of effort that took must be high, but being the typical noob idiot I am I have to also wonder how I actually use this? reply

christiangencoقبل 10 سنوات

No need to be self deprecating - this isn't 4chan :)

Copy and paste the code in your browser's javascript console. In Chrome it's under View/Developer/JavaScript Console.

For a good intro on how this works: https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/h...

new299قبل 10 سنوات

I might just be tired and dense. But does watts per second make sense here? Shouldn't the accumulated power be in joules (or Watt hours?) and the per second value just be watts?

rzzztقبل 10 سنوات

In our universe, energy would be accumulated (measured in joules or watt-seconds), and each upgrade bought would produce more power (measured in watts or joules per second). But the game might be taking place in an alternate timeline where James Joule and James Watt were switched at birth (also born at the same time).

TaylorAlexanderقبل 10 سنوات

This is the best explanation.

david-givenقبل 10 سنوات

Yes. Yes it should.

...I'd complain but I'm too busy micromanaging space potatoes.

arnorhsقبل 10 سنوات

A really well executed Incremental game[1] and the best part about it is that it has an ending. Even a retro end-game sequence. Well done. I really enjoyed it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental_game

kristianpقبل 10 سنوات

See Cookie Clicker for the original (or early) quirky game: http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

hijpقبل 10 سنوات

Nicely done! I just finished with no cheats and thoroughly enjoyed myself.

The level of polish is what kept me clicking 285 times just to 'start' the game. Very cool.

leovanderقبل 10 سنوات

And here's the Stranger Things Soundtrack[1] to play in the background.

[1] https://youtu.be/5sy2qLtrQQQ

josscrowcroftقبل 10 سنوات

There goes my Saturday morning! Time to go stick my wrists in a bucket of ice.

Kudos to the developers. Really lovely game, intuitive and entertaining, well-built.

taneqقبل 10 سنوات

Why is everyone clicking so much? Once you get your first few 'taters the extra gain from clicking is so small as to be pointless.

tgibsonقبل 10 سنوات

Once I figured there would be lots of clicking, I went into the console and typed the following to automate the Kinetigen:

var ki = setInterval(function() { kinetigenClick(); kinetigenRelease(); }, 10);

Then later on at a certain point in the game, I had to stop it:

clearInterval(ki);

mrblackbullقبل 10 سنوات

Tried pasting your code into the console, but i'm getting the following error:

(program):1 Uncaught ReferenceError: kinetigenClick is not defined

What am I doing wrong?

DblPlusUngoodقبل 10 سنوات

Never before have I been so eager to shoot potatoes into the sun.

ORioN63قبل 10 سنوات

Why do you keep doing this? :(

You put a clicker in front of me and baam. Lost a hour.

monk_e_boyقبل 10 سنوات

Loading 'Cookie' library -- haha, nice. Lost a lot of time to cookie clicker

erdevsقبل 10 سنوات

I think I like it more than No Man's Sky. But I'm suing you for carpel tunnel.

Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

karshanقبل 10 سنوات

If you wanna avoid carpel tunnel, window.setInterval(kinetigenClick, 1) :P

erdevsقبل 10 سنوات

I always feel cheat codes don't let me experience the game as its designer intended. But... always tempting. :)

falcolasقبل 10 سنوات

Given how little obfuscation surrounds the click button, what if scripting it was what the developer intended?

jhollandsقبل 10 سنوات

I have no idea how to prevent people from 'hacking' my game, but I don't think I'd try to stop them — it's so fun to see what people are coming up with. I'm learning from it!

vereloقبل 10 سنوات

or even less annoying:

var x = 0; while(x < 10000) { x++; kinetigenClick(); kinetigenRelease(); }

oscilloscopeقبل 10 سنوات

Had to save+reset after bumping this up to 100000, but it only took a few seconds and now I have 6 million watts. Dropping my first Tater Tower. Beautiful, elegant cheat.

vereloقبل 10 سنوات

"Beautiful, elegant cheat."

That is the nicest thing anyone has ever called me.

latchقبل 10 سنوات

power += 100000000000

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pmontraقبل 10 سنوات

Or open with a tablet, I couldn't do anything.

wandaقبل 10 سنوات

Reminds me of Larry Niven's Ringworld, or more specifically the Puppeteers and their planet-ships fleeing the galaxy.

twicقبل 10 سنوات

For me, it was Liu Cixin's 'The Wandering Earth', with a heavy dose of Stephen Baxter hard-SF (ish) cosmic madness. And potatoes.

threepipeproblmقبل 10 سنوات

I learned so much about myself. Time to cook some potatoes.

stepik777قبل 10 سنوات

Why do we accumulate watts? That's stupid.

rurbanقبل 10 سنوات

Check Tipler. We won't need them now, we would be even much better off to save more, but we would need them to save the world on the galactic scale.

terminadoقبل 10 سنوات

C'mon man, what's it take to post a link?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler

rurbanقبل 10 سنوات

Love potatoes. And saved the world in 2 hours. (without cheating)

transfireقبل 10 سنوات

Hmm... I seriously doubt that's possible. How?

wodenokotoقبل 10 سنوات

Looks like Cookie clicker [1]

[1] http://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker/

runevaultقبل 10 سنوات

It's basically cookie clicker with an actual plot and an ending.

mablapقبل 10 سنوات

Here are some useful shortcuts:

power = n; (where n is whatever you need)

sol.mass = 3e7;

Cool game!

erdevsقبل 10 سنوات

Okay, now that more people have played, what is everyone's fastest time getting to the end (without cheats)?

Fun game concept!

taneqقبل 10 سنوات

Took me about four hours, toward the end I was playing it more like a Tamagotchi (click the buttons every now and then and then leave it to rack up more power).

Also [[SPOILERS]] the ending sequence wedged after 'go be a hero', luckily when I refreshed the page it put me back to just before the black hole bit. Maybe it broke because I was on the solar system view and not the planet view or something? It worked the second time anyway.

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rcarmoقبل 10 سنوات

This is bloody amazing. Best way to spend a quiet Saturday morning :)

evantahlerقبل 10 سنوات

Just came back to this... they've done a very good job of blocking "click" automation!

rotomattقبل 10 سنوات

хороший один товарищ

DblPlusUngoodقبل 10 سنوات

Obviously a direct translation from English to Russian -- I doubt a Russian would ever actually say this.

They should change it to: молодец.

terminadoقبل 10 سنوات

Неплохо, товарищ

makkesk8قبل 10 سنوات

Pomme de terra

omginternetsقبل 10 سنوات

Is this a Latvian game studio?

omginternetsقبل 10 سنوات

How do I obtain the planet boosters?

Also, thanks for ruining my dissertation...

lionyoقبل 10 سنوات

Click "System Peeker" in the top middle of the screen, under "Planet Looker"

c3RlcGhlbnI_قبل 10 سنوات

Cool, but does a clicker game really need to use 4 cores?

arawdeقبل 10 سنوات

Beautifully done :)

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transfireقبل 10 سنوات

POMME DE TERRE

burembaقبل 10 سنوات

nice ending scene with pomme de terre.

itsjoesullivanقبل 10 سنوات

Very fun! Only cheated a little.

nyxtomقبل 10 سنوات

Great game! Thanks for sharing :D

oxplotقبل 10 سنوات

so I did `for i in {1..10000}; do xdotool click 1; done` and ... the game crashed :(

christiangencoقبل 10 سنوات

Do `setInterval(kinetigenClick, 1)` instead.

djhworldقبل 10 سنوات

Frighteningly addictive.

gozur88قبل 10 سنوات

Surprisingly addictive.

tdburnقبل 10 سنوات

Loved it