Dark Idle
Click, buy upgrades, prestige and finally reincarnation leading to a whole new game within the game. Powdered with some surprising twists.
Remember, you don't have to do a prestige or reincarnation right away if you can.
You can play the levels as long as you want (and not break the infinity wall).
I wish you a lot of fun and look forward to your comments and if you like 'Dark Idle' a positive rating.
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Comments
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So I counted roughly 12 animals. Each time you karma, you earn a little more, but things are a lot more expense, so you're just doing the same thing over and over, but each time it takes longer and longer... Is there anything else to the game? Because I'm only half way through my 3rd, and there is no way I'm going to keep doing the same thing all the way through 12...
I had fun with this. I have left it on my PC for a couple of days and I am wondering if the game ends when you've had every avatar once or if Light, Water and Flora endlessly cycle with a slightly higher initial requirement.
This is my slightly OP karma level 3 current game.
Thanks for your comment.
I am very happy that you liked the game.
After playing all reincarnations, they will be chosen randomly.
So the game goes on (theoretically) endlessly. With more bonus and higher requirements.
However, you should continue with your current reincarnation until you have exhausted everything. Then it goes very, very quickly to prestige.
You have to see that once. :-)
I quit the game. I had saved my progress but I realise now that the entire code wasn't being highlighted when I copied and pasted. My last working code was from Karma 1. Oh well.
Oh, that's sad.
Just send me an e-Mail with the last Karma level and I can generate an importfile for you.
Not sure if this is a bug, but, for the things you buy that automatically buy one of the lower level thing, I expected that it would buy one for each of the thing you have. e.g. if I have 50 Rivers, it would buy 50 Streams every time the bar fills up. But it doesn't... perhaps the number that it auto buys is equal to the number of Rivers that you've MANUALLY bought, not the actual number? Here's a screenshot that hopefully makes this evident:
Thank you for the comment and especially for looking 'beyond the surface'.
It's not a bug. :-)
As with the PP, there is also a logarithmic formula behind it. That means for the first generators you get the underlying item almost 1:1 and to increase the growth rate you need more and more generators.
The formula behind it: (int)Math.Ceiling(1 + Math.Log(gd.Level[i],2));
I'm looking forward to your next post. And if you have time, I'd like you to be a beta tester for my next game. :-)
Ah, I see. That explains it then.
Sure, I'd do some beta testing. Sounds like fun :)
Great. Please send me a mail so I can contact you when the time comes. (Soon :-))
Thanks.
Reincarnated. Prestige still says "1% Light increase per PP"
Thanks for your comment!
This text will not change.
After Reincarnation you get a (non-visible) Karma level factor.
Hey, I'm not sure how the math works under the hood, but isn't a 5% increase in Idle Light equal to a 5% increase in speed, in terms of light per second?
edit: with exception to the bottom row upgrades
Thanks a lot for your comment!
You're right!
But it makes a big difference with Generator Items...
That's what I like most at this game.
You CAN do a lot, but some choices are better than others.
That's karma. :-)
On my own behalf:
I got my first ever rating for my games on Itch.IO and I look like the cat that got the cream. :-)
Feedback is extremely important for me to see how I can make my next game better.
In the rating, the player says he would like speed increases on certain numbers of upgrades.
In case anyone else is wondering:
I deliberately didn't program it because the PP makes it possible to completely adapt the game to your own needs. (income, speed and price)
Hope you still enjoy it.
I'm on my first run. One thing I notice is that my prestige point gain has almost crawled to a complete halt after 20 pp. Very disappointing.
Thanks a lot for your comment!
The PP per Prestige level increases with a logarithmic function. This means that the curve is strictly monotonically increasing, but the gain is getting smaller and smaller. When the PP doesn't increase (noticeably) anymore, it's time for a prestige.
You can get more PP on the next run.
Don't be disappointed, it's bad for karma. :-)
Not works witch itchio launcher:
"Unable to parse Build/Dark_Idle.framework.js.gz! This can happen if build compression was enabled but web server hosting the content was misconfigured to not serve the file with HTTP Response Header "Content-Encoding: gzip" present. Check browser Console and Devtools Network tab to debug."
Thanks a lot for your comment!
To be honest I never tested the game with the itch.io launcher.
I tested different browsers for weeks, but only with the direct link to 'Dark Idle'. Is it possible for you to play there online?
I'll take a look at the launcher issue and see if I can fix it.
I think I found the reason, but am not sure how to handle it.
I asked the community for help: 'Community'
Maybe somebody there has an idea how to solve the problem without making it worse for all the web players.
Just started, seems like a really nice idea, but I can already say one issue that exist is that's unclear what does Karma and Reincarnate do... You might want to fix it to make it understandable: When can you Reincarnate? Why and when should you? and so on...
Thanks a lot for your comment!
The game will show you an indicator as soon as you can do a reincarnation (it's after reaching Prestige Level 8).
If you try the reincarnation before lvl 8 the game will tell you the min. requirements.
You don't have to reincarnate then but I would recommend it. :-)
Have fun playing 'Dark Idle' and please tell me your opinion after the reincarnation.