Summer of Math Exposition

I don’t get it, is this a basic counting/level up game?… but there is a js error: Uncaught TypeError: can’t access property “split”, state.level is undefined

Speed up the first cookie. I’m writing this while I wait. Documentation must be available before playing. I don’t see any educational value of the clicker other than what you learnt while creating it. It is extremely slow to get to large numbers. Have you taken into account adding one to 2^53 and above will not add because of how floating point numbers are stored?

tough too understand. Am I supposed to use javascript?

I am not sure about the aim of the game. Is it just for showing some number? As for me, it is a little comfusing and boring.

Intriguing cookie clicker edit! Link to amazingly large numbers was phenomenal.

Really hard one to rate. This is, undoubtedly a functional game, but you are going against the Cookie Clicker. The link to math is also hard to see, especially without good guidance. The new user experience could use some testing. I like the premise: understanding big numbers, but it just takes a long time to see that vision as a player. It could use more time in the oven, if you don’t mind the pun.

I really enjoyed the concept of the game to demonstrate just how huge numbers can get. It amazed me in that aspect. Something I would improve on is including notes explaining what each notation means to the inexperienced user (e.g. factorial, ↑, Ackermann, etc.).

I like that it’s a game. People come in to have some fun and end up being curious about creating large numbers. Hide the vegetables strategy.

Fun game except that the wait time for the first cookie is way too long. I don’t think much maths is being taught…

I love the idea of an idle game (sort of) as a lesson in large numbers. There isn’t much to be expanded upon in the actual lesson. It took me a little bit to understand the UI. I think this is great as a middle/upper school activity for showing math can be fun and informative. Large numbers are a topic that have been covered extensively on youtube, so this might not be as useful for someone who is already well knowledgable.

Well a nice game don’t think this would be a valid entry but yeah seen a lot of this so giving it a about the same

For the game itself:

1. The first cookie took a long time to bake. I thought “Baking…” was a progress bar, so without it I thought the game froze until I noticed the first cookie was a pie chart.
2. It would be nice if Bake and Upgrade was on the same tab. Switching between these was labourious.
3. I missed the exact upgrades. The =70 one I didn’t know (so it was good that I was warned when I missed it). I hit =511. For =999999 I made one misclick and missed it and didn’t bother with the rest. The game takes really long without the exact upgrades because I had to reach really big numbers while being underpowered.
4. I didn’t completely understand what “omega+1” “omega+2” levels did.
5. The click propagation animation looked somewhat neat when I first saw it.

Since SoME4 is a math explainer competition, I was looking for some kind of compelling math lesson. So even if the gameplay mechanics were improved, I don’t see myself giving a rating above 6 in the SoME4 system without having learned interesting math from it.