{
  "path": "/posts/2026-05-08-clickercrawl/",
  "site": "https://mike.puddingtime.org",
  "tags": [
    "games",
    "clickers",
    "pmc",
    "management"
  ],
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "title": "clickercrawl",
  "description": "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...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-08T15:53:45.043Z",
  "textContent": "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. \n\nI'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_][fear] or Catherine Liu's [_Virtue Hoarders_][hoarders].\"\n\n\n[hoarders]: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912253/virtue-hoarders/\n[fear]: https://www.barbaraehrenreich.com/titles/barbara-ehrenreich/fear-of-falling/9781455543755/\n[Universal Paperclips]: https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html"
}