Golden cookies may appear on screen, initially every 7 minutes or so, which can help to greatly boost Cookies per Second for a short period of time. The player can then keep producing cookies, until they buy grandmas, farms, mines and so on. When the player has 15 cookies, they may buy a Cursor, which autoclicks every 10 seconds.
The player has the option to click the Big Cookie, on the left of the screen, which initially produces one cookie per click. The game starts out with the player having no cookies. The game's source code can be found here. The game's current link can be found here. The game is still in constant update, with large updates happening around holidays such as Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, April Fools' Day, and Easter. The old game would later be known as 'Cookie Clicker Classic'.Īfter creating the new Cookie Clicker (also known as the 1.0 Update), Orteil continued to add new features to the game, such as upgrades, options and achievements.
The game was fairly simple at first, and by the 24th of the same month, he made a new version of the game at a different URL. Orteil created the game in a single day and posted it on 4chan, garnering 50,000 players in only 1 hour. Orteil created Cookie Clicker on August 8, 2013.
