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Sandcastle Builder (Video Game)
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- 18 feature instances
- 8 referencing feature instances
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Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | |
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SandcastleBuilder | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | comment |
Sandcastle Builder is an Idle Game by one Eternal Density as a fan-made companion to xkcd: Time. It was first available on September 4, 2013. The goal of the game seems simple, but isn't. You start out with a clickable image of a beach from xkcd: Time. One click digs one sand, and one sand produces one castle. This seems straightforward, but the amount of sand needed per castle increases following the Fibonacci Sequence. Once you've accumulated enough castles, you'll be able to purchase tools which produce sand automatically, other tools to produce castles at certain intervals, and boosts which let you produce sand and castles even faster. Soon you won't need to click to dig sand manually, but there quickly becomes other reasons to click. Then things get more and more complicated with 'redundakitties', 'ninja', 'the Department of Redundancy Department', 'Judgement Dip', and Time Travel. Also the whole thing is packed full of obscure references and made up words from the xkcd forum. | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_15ccd0a | type |
Anti-Wastage Features | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_15ccd0a | comment |
Anti-Wastage Features: Played with: Stretchable Chip Storage and Stretchable Block Storage Cap Raisers that unlock after the player loses 1M chips at once due to the storage limit. Once purchased, surplus chips are used to automatically expand the limit. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_15ccd0a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_15ccd0a | featureConfidence |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_15ccd0a | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_30d2689a | type |
Ominous Visual Glitch | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_30d2689a | comment |
Ominous Visual Glitch: Typos gradually appear and increase in number over time. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_30d2689a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_315ec0b1 | type |
Auto-Save | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_315ec0b1 | comment |
Auto-Save: This is a purchasable upgrade when the player manually saves the game 20 times. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_315ec0b1 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_4b96273c | type |
Monty Haul | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_4b96273c | comment |
Monty Haul: Once you have infinite Sandcastles, you're only getting started. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_4b96273c | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5ac34441 | type |
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp" | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5ac34441 | comment |
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": many words are replaced with counterparts from the xkcd: Time forum thread, just to add "flavour": The word "day" is always replaced with "dip". Molpies are just cute animals. Vital game functions such as "partial reset" and "complete reset" are confusingly named "Molpy Down" and "Coma." "big" is replaced by "seaish." The numerical value NaN (Not a Number, which results from undefined operations such as subtracting infinity from infinity or multiplying infinity by 0) is displayed as "Mustard." | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5ac34441 | featureApplicability |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5ac34441 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | type |
Save Scumming | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | comment |
Save Scumming: It is possible to save and reload the game at certain points to get the best result, or at least avoid a negative one (e.g. if you have enough goats, you can reload to recover lost castles.) However, some save scumming tactics are countered such as locking the Monty Haul Problem and increasing its price. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_60a3f0ba | type |
Monty Hall Problem | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_60a3f0ba | comment |
Monty Hall Problem: Played with: the rules as to whether a goat is displayed to the player are hidden to make analysis 'hidden', plus you get to collect goats. To add to the confusion, in-game it is named "Monty Haul Problem". | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_60a3f0ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_60a3f0ba | featureConfidence |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_61c3ca7b | type |
Panthera Awesome | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_61c3ca7b | comment |
Panthera Awesome: Inspired by 'Lucky', the big cat in xkcd: Time, are the 'Not Lucky' reward, and boosts such as 'Panther Salve', 'Panther Poke', and 'Panther Glaze'. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_61c3ca7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_61c3ca7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_61c3ca7b | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: The games progression goes all over the place. In many places you can end up putting in effort into an area that would be trivialized though other means, while others, doing that painful process to push just an inch more will unlock a useful boost. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_834427cd | type |
Cap | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_834427cd | comment |
Cap: Maximum finite value for anything is 1.7976931348623157e+308 - anything higher causes the value to become Infinite. This is a feature of 64-bit floating-point notation. Production Control can't be upgraded past 6e+51 at which point the player is awarded the "Nope!" badge. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_834427cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce | type |
Mini-Game | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce | comment |
Mini-Game: Logicats, which involve solving a boolean logic problem, and the "Monty Haul Problem". | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9484fe56 | type |
Discount Card | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9484fe56 | comment |
Discount Card: There's a 40% discount from a random boost, which helps when dealing with hard-to-get resources, but less so when the price cost is infinite. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9484fe56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9484fe56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9d6427ec | type |
Time Travel | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9d6427ec | comment |
The Time Travel boost's messages and related badges are full of references to various time travel-related works, especially Back to the Future. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_9d6427ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Panther Glaze is written in the style of Burma-Shave (Panther Salve was basically the forum version of Burma Shave) The Time Travel boost's messages and related badges are full of references to various time travel-related works, especially Back to the Future. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_d91700a7 | type |
Minus World | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_d91700a7 | comment |
Minus World: intentional example: instead of completely plugging a glitch with Temporal Rift, the developer made it a portal to the 'Minus Worlds', which have their images and text flipped. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_d91700a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_d91700a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_f11c3835 | type |
Anti-Grinding | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_f11c3835 | comment |
Anti-Grinding: This first appears in clicking the beach to collect sand, as the cost of castles will increase based on the number built until ONG! resets the cost. | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_f11c3835 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_f11c3835 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_f11c3835 | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d | type |
Department of Redundancy Department | |
| Sandcastle Builder (Video Game) / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: Literally — they're a group of kittens with neckties who provide you with new technologies. | |
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