whiterook6 / universal-paperclips

A clone of Universal Paperclips to learn some new things about bigints, react apps at 60fps, etc.

Universal Paperclips

A clone of Universal Paperclips by Frank Lantz.

I wanted to test how to run a game loop at 60FPS within React, and learn some of the game mechanics for myself. The original is far better.

Screenshot

Updates

• Added game loop, clips, and free autoclippers
• Added extremely large number formatting (printing numbers up to 999 novenonagintillion)
• Added time formatting: Yy Dd Hh Mm S.MMMs (eg 123y 45d 01h 23m 45.678s)
• Added funds, selling clips, and buying autoclippers.
• Added wire, buying wire, running out of wire
• Fixed bugs with printing large numbers, and improved the game loop
• Some styling, and more controls for selling and buying

Dev

Building the code

You can use yarn or npm: For example, npm run dev:watch or yarn run prod:build

• dev:watch: watches the source folder, compiles source maps, no minification
• dev:build: clears the output folder, compiles source maps, no minification, copies index.html
• prod:build: clears the output folder, no source maps, yes minification, copies index.html