danneu / infinite-monkey-incremental

An incremental game inspired by the Infinite Monkey Theorem

Proof of concept / work in progress, has glaring issues

infinite-monkey-incremental

• Live demo: https://www.danneu.com/infinite-monkey-incremental/

A toy project I'm working on to learn Elm.

The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.

It's an incremental game where you buy monkeys that type random letters into typewriters. As they accidentally spell words, you win cash that you can use to upgrade or buy more monkeys.

TODO

• Consider basing speed price on total speed sum instead of on a per-chimp basis.
• Come up with actual, deliberate price growth formulas that scale well.
• Auto-load/-unload state from localStorage.
• Automate cache-busting fingerprinting on index.html and elm.js during deploy step.
• Instead of Effects.tick, slower fps

Notes to self

• Always ensure that player can afford a given upgrade inside Game's update function. If not, then enqueuing multiple actions (like spamming button clicks while the UI hangs) will always result in the player purchasing upgrades they couldn't otherwise afford which will also result in a negative cash balance.

Build

For development:

Start local server:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer 5000

Build index.html and elm.js:

npm run build

Navigate to http://localhost:5000.

For production:

git checkout --orphan gh-pages
npm run build
rm .gitignore
git add index.html public elm.js
git commit -m 'Build'
git push origin -f