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Have there ever been any frustrating points in programming Cookie Clicker that made you question your choice to become a game dev rather than, say, an elevator inspector?

rarely the game itself but on occasion having to deal with mobile port compilation errors and ever-shifting app store policies had me wishing to retire to the mountains and raise sheep and renounce the use of electricity yes

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is new merch planned at any point?

yeah it's been on the todo list but capitalism scares me

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What inspired you to make the grandmas progressively more scary?

standard french humor

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when writing cc code do you develop it in the browser or the binary steam version

i call my server host and whistle the bytecode directly into the phone

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hmm. bad

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fiddling with Cookie Clicker and making the logic somewhat less framerate-dependent so i can up the fps from 30 to 60, which i might have you guys test out at some point because there's no way i caught every little thing this could break. i tried my best but still

also considering making the game scale up on larger monitors. Cookie Clicker looks great on my friend's giant triple-wide setup but it makes the big cookie look so lonely

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dungeon minigame still not finalized tho! i get to revise that again and again and you can't stop me!

Cookie Clicker is so full of...odd design choices to put it kindly. yet i must resist the urge to fix what's questionable but not broken

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Cookie Clicker is so full of...odd design choices to put it kindly. yet i must resist the urge to fix what's questionable but not broken

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My girlfriend absolutely loves your game, thank you!

tell her i'm single

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today's Dutch vocabulary lesson

dustsucker

crumbthief

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i appreciate the intricate meanderings of the usual Simpsons plot. an oil spill happens and therefore as a logical consequence Bart starts work at a brothel

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outstanding. please tell your grandma i said hi and also if you've got any pictures of said cookies to share by all means

hi toeman, i know that This Website's Hate Mail Game Is Insane and it's a meme for ppl to antagonize you, but i wanted to share some Love Mail!! i remember that you said you were worried about your American fans,

I want to share that I'm an American fan in a red state - but!!!!

i just got a gender affirming surgery a few days ago and having cookie clicker open has been really helping with the surgery recovery and it makes me really happy to know that you care about us too, even if things are kinda really fucked up rn

(also my grandma loves your game and she says "this french gentleman knows too much about our kind")

hell yeah lmao tell me more about your grandma

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do you think god approves of what you have done? of what you have brought upon the world?

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hi toeman, i know that This Website's Hate Mail Game Is Insane and it's a meme for ppl to antagonize you, but i wanted to share some Love Mail!! i remember that you said you were worried about your American fans,

I want to share that I'm an American fan in a red state - but!!!!

i just got a gender affirming surgery a few days ago and having cookie clicker open has been really helping with the surgery recovery and it makes me really happy to know that you care about us too, even if things are kinda really fucked up rn

(also my grandma loves your game and she says "this french gentleman knows too much about our kind")

hell yeah lmao tell me more about your grandma

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was the prism heart cookie for the valentines event supposed to look like the progress pride flag? if yes, genuinely thank you for that, it brightened my day. if no, still thanks for putting a rainbow cookie because it made me smile

this one? yes! specifically it's one of the intersectional variants - it includes the brown and black stripes, but was added to the game too early for Daniel Quasar's 2018 version that added the transgender stripes. (i can't recall for sure but judging from dates and designs the 2017 Philadelphia eight-stripe may have been the one i was going for?) it's been slipping my mind but i'd like to either update that one or add a new heart biscuit with proper trans stripes one day!

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no no you have me all wrong. speaking french at all is a disqualifier

i'm past the age of asking someone to be my valentine who wants to get married move to the suburbs have 3 beautiful dipshit kids and adopt a dog

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i'm past the age of asking someone to be my valentine who wants to get married move to the suburbs have 3 beautiful dipshit kids and adopt a dog