EcoClicker

EcoClicker is a game where you have to save earth from global warming by planting trees. Please post in the forum if you experience any issue or for any feedback. Thank you for playing!

How to play

1. Click the big green button to grow some trees.
2. Click the big yellow button to chop some trees and get some gold
3. Hire workers to help you grow and chop trees (Use Alt+Click to bulk buy and sell workers)
4. Adopt policies and research new techs to improve your yield
5. Make sure you keep temperature anomaly between -3°C and +3.5°C or the game would be over...

About

The game is optimised/tested for Chrome but should work with all recent browsers (Firefox/Safari/Edge). 

Changelog

v0.5.2

• Fix javascript encoding (Ecoclicker is now playable with the Itch app!)
• Fix HTML page encoding (Itch app also)

v0.5.0

• Fix tutorial messages appearing one click late
• Add Alt+Click to bulk buy 10 workers

v0.4.2

• Price of late-game researches increased
• Fix sell policy authorized even if not enough gold
• Remove "Not enough gold" text for adopted policies
• Only 5 tiers [from 10] for "XP Click" research, otherwise level progress is too fast in the late-game
• Hiring workers now only gives XP if you never had this many consecutive workers before

v0.4.1

• Make UI elements gradually appear
• Give how-to-play hints in the news section in the early game, while UI elements appear
• Display Emitted/Absorbed/Diff. PPM/year as a fixed decimal float
• Fix display of planting/chopping rate for rates < 10/week
• Divide by 10 the price of the "Eco dome" research
• Add forest die-off: diseases that kills instantly part of your forest (occurs in summer months when CO2 concentration > 450PPM)
• "GMOs" research now increase tree resistance to diseases by 10% at each tier

v0.4.0 - The Yuge update

• Trees now take 52 weeks to grow
• Number of planted trees, and increase of planting displayed in the header
• Slowed down level progress (first level requires 1000xp [from 500], increase for each level set to 20% [from 10%])
• Double (or more) the price of all workers
• Double the price of the "Eco merchandise" policy, it yields only 2 gold per week [from 5]
• "Air traffic ban" now grounds "Helicopter" along with planes
• "Emergency State" policy make "Helicopter" available even if "Air traffic ban" is adopted
• "Emergency State" also now prevents Advocates from working, and divide by 2 the workers and clicks planting rates
• "Gas cars ban" policy now prevents all ground mechanic planting/chopping workers to be functional (Delimber, Harvester...)
• Revoking a policy now costs 5 times the price of the policy [from 2]
• Game now starts in January 2017, at 401 PPM (from May 2016, 400 PPM)
• "Seeding helicopter" renamed "Helicopter"
• "Seeding plane" renamed "Plane"
• "Eco Manager" research renamed "Permaculture"
• Fixed end-game negative CO2: growth of trees and absorption of CO2 decrease and stops when CO2 concentration goes below 230PPM
• Price of "Eco dome" research divided by 2
• Added "UBI" policy
• Added "Free Trade Zones" policy
• Added "Sanctuaries" policy
• UI improvements

  
  

  • Bigger (and expandable) screen
  • Font size increased/optimised
  • Removed ugly news icons
  • Added random facts on main screen
  • Display research tiers the same way as workers quantity
  • Disable News generation for a while - will bring it back better later
  • Gives some hints on how to play at the beginning of the game in the news section (to be greatly improved)

v0.3.4

• Add "Eco dome" research. Buying it wins the game.
• "Gold Manager" research update: decrease hiring costs by 5% (from 10% previously), now increase gold yield of Activists and Advocates by 20%
• "Net of Stuff" research update: now increase gold yield of Activists and Advocates by 20%, and CO2 emissions by 2%
• "Seeding plane" price x2
• Grapple price x2
• Fix price display of Policy/Research not being red when not enough gold

v0.3.3

• Better cost balance for end-game policies
• Bugfix: multipliers in Plant and Chop buttons shall be rounded (thanks /u/TerraPlays on Reddit)
• Bugfix: a typo in freezing game over screen (thanks @zombiewizard45 on Twitter)
• Fix: "National Parks" description states "Make people pay for it" but no gold yield, description updated

v0.3.2

• Added average temperature and temperature anomaly calculation
• Game over when temperature anomaly > +3.5°C or < -3°C (first version of game over screens, texts may change)
• Red or blue transparent layer on top of landscape to give a visual feedback of temperature anomaly
• Cap number of news displayed (max: 30)
• Make "Research" button stand out differently so player understands there is stuff in there
• Display click multipliers in Plant and Chop buttons

v0.3.1

• Fix Seeding plane ban/unban not working
• Decreased Seeding plane workers limit to 25
• Transform "GMOs" policy into a 5-tier research
• "Emergency State" policy now makes Activists unable to work
• Missing icons added
• Increased a bit the font size of price and quantity in worker/policies/research buttons
• Improved readability of all texts using CSS text shadow
• Attempted to fix CO2 table last row not visible in Firefox/Ubuntu by resetting table default CSS

v0.3.0

• Reworked whole game balance
• Added workers (mainly to chop trees and generate gold):
  • Gatherer
  • Advocate
  • Delimber
  • Heavy harvester
  • Tree planter
  • Grapple
• Added research panel
• Added many new policies
• Policies can now be revoked for double the price of the policy
• Added ability to sell worker for half its current price
• Idle mode implemented (inactive tab)
• Basic load/save process (save is automatic when pausing game or closing the browser tab/window, ability to continue saved game from main menu)
• The player shall not use the Enter key to plant and chop trees ultra fast!
• Workers tooltips now display the actual planting/chopping/gold rates wrt policies improvements
• Added level up news. Cheer up!

v0.2.3

• Added "Double Green Click" and "Double Blue Click" policies
• Make workers and policies availability depends on level
• Update workers and policies prices and yield - reworked the whole balance of the game really
• Bugfix: gold yield from policies not counted

v0.2.2

• Changed Activist price and gold yield
• Bugfix: gold yield from workers displayed but not actually counted

v0.2.1

• First alpha release

Todo

Better landscape with procedural trees, factories, city, visible pollution...

Better news generation

New workers, research and achievements [Continuous]

Sounds + corresponding settings (mute, volume)

Main menu screen

Introduction sequence

Credits