Automating The Philosophers Stone
developed by  SoapieTomato gamedev | rated 3.7 stars, 26 ratings |
26 ratings
Posted July 20, 2023. Updated July 20, 2023. Played 343 times for a total of 1011 hours.
description
An Incremental Game Jam 2023 Submission
You ever wish you could keep more resources / upgrades on reset in your idle games?
You ever say to yourself "Damn, I should reset for rewards, but I'll have to go through long periods of grog again?"
Well I got just the game for you! Automating the Philosophers Stone is a game about slowly accumulating energy based off of your max resources across all resets, meaning there is no cost to do an use your energy in other upgrades
Most of the upgrades in the game cost this energy resource so if you feel stuck in your current run you can simply reset and get all your energy back to try another
Yes, this means the game favors active gameplay for parts where you can constantly upgrade your strategy, but there a ton of scaling upgrades which let you idle away for great rewards
Currnent content:
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3 Basic elemental generators (Fire, Water, Earth)
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21 Upgrades (including many infinitely repeatable ones)
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Energy Multipliers based on amount of elements sacrificed on resets
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6 Milestones for sacrifice amount
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7 Challenges (which give really good rewards)
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3 Ultimate generators (Air, Space, Aether), which are unlocked through milestones and challenges which ramp up to do ridiculous things and should push you to the end
There is also a github pages version which should be the same, but hosted on github instead of itchio: https://sophiewalden.github.io/AutomatingThePhilosophersStone/
newest comments
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So I have no idea what happened, but "You have -113100484201366 Water"
I accidentally pressed the reset save button and there's no confirmation or anything
developer response: I'm so sorry this is one of the things I wanted to implement, but didn't get into time for the small time of the game jam! I can help provide a save if you wish, but thanks for playing and that'll be fixed soon after the jam <3
Full text of buttons is only visible when 'Expanded' is selected. Firefox.
developer response: Yep! Sorry about that, some of the text font size scalings doesnt work on all aspect ratios. I'm going to work on balancing that today and you should see an update later to make it look way better! Thanks for the feedback <3
I meant it freezes for just a little bit and inconsistently at that, it starts working again after less than a second. Just seemed odd that Air generation would pause for a moment.
top comments
For anyone talking about balanced, I spent the whole day today completely rebalancing everything (Havent done a balance run on throught his since its a game jam game and I just got the content down), but it should be way better now
I accidentally pressed the reset save button and there's no confirmation or anything
developer response: I'm so sorry this is one of the things I wanted to implement, but didn't get into time for the small time of the game jam! I can help provide a save if you wish, but thanks for playing and that'll be fixed soon after the jam <3
Can anyone tell me how to reset my save after completing the game, options tab cannot be chosen and the popup quickly appear again after closing
developer response: I'm so sorry, that seems like a really weird bug I try to disable showing the end card ever again after seeing the X. I just released an update (Should update here in about 10 minutes) that adds a continue and reset game button straight to the end card so hopefuly there should be a better way about it now. Thanks so much for playing through the whole game <3
The idea is interesting, but it hasn't been balanced at all
interesting idea. After a while, everything just snowballs so much that you can just buy everything and complete all the challenges with ease. Would be cool if it was rebalanced at some point, but I don't know how difficult that might be.