Cookie Clicker

book User's Guides to Popular Culture How to Play Video Games

by Sebastian Deterding

Abstract: Incremental games like Cookie Clicker are a perfect exemplar of gamification, using progress mechanics and other game features to make a rote act like clicking compelling. Sebastian Deterding analyzes the game Cookie Clicker for its motivating features to illustrate the logic and limits of gamification.

This essay may be found on page 201 of the printed volume.