hi, it's mike https://mike.puddingtime.org/tags/pmc/ Recent content on hi, it's mike Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us mike@puddingtime.org (mike) mike@puddingtime.org (mike) © 2026, mike Fri, 08 May 2026 15:53:45 +0000 clickercrawl https://mike.puddingtime.org/posts/2026-05-08-clickercrawl/ Fri, 08 May 2026 15:53:45 +0000mike@puddingtime.org (mike) https://mike.puddingtime.org/posts/2026-05-08-clickercrawl/ I’ve been playing tinycrawl a lot in idle moments, so I think it’s doing what I wanted. I don’t like how heavily I leaned on the AI-generated content for it, so I’m making a dungeon clicker in the tinycrawl extended universe. I’m using Claude to help me figure out the game mechanics … “what makes a good clicker” and to build a skill that will help me write the prose and tell the game’s story. I loved Universal Paperclips so much, and wouldn’t at all presume to try to imitate it, but it was inspiring.

I’m still iterating through the mechanics pretty quickly, but I guess the underlying tone is sort of “Dungeon Keeper meets Barbara Ehrenreich’s Fear of Falling or Catherine Liu’s Virtue Hoarders.”

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