This update is a bit late and has a slight bit more content in it than was originally planned! Which caused which is left as an exercise for the reader.

Next update will be a while – probably upwards of a month – as the next few weeks are very busy for me. Incidentally, I do plan to slow the pace of updates in the future, as the last few haven't been as meaty as I'd have liked. Of course, this will mean more stuff in each one, so hopefully it'll be worth it.

• Added three new achievements.
• Added flavor text to five achievements that didn't have any.
• Fixed the 2× achievement only unlocking if you'd already had a +100% or higher bonus when prestiging.

Well, it's been a while! Long story short, I got nasty sick for quite a while. At any rate, it's cleared up now, so here's a small content update. Next update should be up by the 12th, but I'll be participating in this week's Ludum Dare, so it may end up being a bit small.

• Added permanent upgrades, which survive prestiging, of which two new ones have been added.
• Added two new achievements, including one hidden one.
• Adjusted the amount of auto-clicks/sec the Mouse Auto-Fire line of upgrades gives; now starts at 2x/sec, but subsequent upgrades give a bit less such that the final rate is the same. This change was made as starting off at once/second was too slow to be worth using.
• Changed "buildings built" statistic to "buildings owned" to better reflect what it tracked. Also changed the relevant all-time statistic to "highest all-time" as it too was unintuitive and previously tracked a combination of currently owned buildings and buildings lost via prestige. Since this all-time stat is now relevant prior to prestiging, it is now also always visible.
• Fixed a bug that caused base manufacture/sell power upgrades to not properly revert when prestiging.
• Fixed a bug that caused a building to not be considered "discovered" anymore if the game was saved while you owned zero of it.
• Fixed a similar bug to the above that would un-discover upgrades if you saved while they weren't active (e.g. after prestiging).
• Fixed a bug causing production building timers to show up when a save was loaded, even if none were owned in that save.
• Fixed bug that caused Mouse Auto-Fire effects to occasionally stick around even after releasing the mouse button.

A bit late, but as promised, here's the second alpha release. This one's a bit small, but fixes some very nasty bugs that managed to sneak in.

• Reduced prestige gain by a factor of 10. Prestige is intended to be something for later parts of the game, but was far too easy to obtain to work for this purpose. Notably, it will likely be reduced again later as more content gets added to fill in the gap.
• Increased the timer for Printing Offices from 10 seconds to 15, so as to bring it closer to Lumberyard's rate while keeping a simple ratio between them.
• Fixed money & stock being set to Infinity whenever a tick takes longer than two seconds to finish.
• Fixed the next- and previous-message buttons being ludicrously huge for some Chromium users.
• Fixed the Autosave Rate option erroneously saying autosaves were disabled whenever a new save was started.
• Fixed the icon and info number in the Prestige button still being clickable on Chromium even if the button itself was disabled.

Consideration done, turns out I am polishing this!

I debated it for a bit, but in the end I felt it would be fun if the first game I ever properly released was the first one I ever made, and so here it is: The first major update Timewaster has seen since 2014! Or at least an alpha of it. Still, pretty exciting to finally be able to show this off. And just before the new year, too!

Generally speaking, you'll find that this update has cleaned up a huge amount of the game, be it visually, design-wise or performance-wise. Content-wise, however, it's still very small, and though I plan to add much more, this release especially will be rather tiny. The plan is to update this again once every other week with updates of varying size – some large, some little more than hotfixes – until it's complete. With that said, please keep the following two points in mind:

First, be aware that there may be some backwards compatibility issues when trying to load older saves on this version. I've included code to help remedy this for the future, but I can't guarantee there won't be any pain points for this update, as I haven't touched most of this code since 2014. As a safety measure, all alpha versions will use a different save file from the one used for the main game; while the final version will likely have a prompt to handle it, importing an old save into this alpha can only be done via the Import Save button.

Second, I cannot promise that saves made on all alpha versions will be safely ported. This is, after all, an alpha build. It will likely change a great deal very quickly as new versions get released. The save-porting code I mentioned above will help, but I have to add new code to it for every version I want to support porting for. Given how much and how frequently things will change during an alpha, supporting all alpha versions would add a lot of work such that I just can't guarantee it.

All good? Great. Now, for those interested, the bullet points:

• Added prestige system! The button was there, but didn't do anything... until now.
• All-time stats added that survive prestige. Note that these won't show up until you've prestiged at least once.
• Removed building price/rate randomization. It didn't really add anything worthwhile to the game, and I think it was also randomly causing the page to freeze when starting a new save for the first time.
• Removed x8 game speed. Default maximum game speed is now 2x, and Ludicrous Speed achievement (the unlock requirement of which has been doubled) now unlocks x4 instead.
• Added twelve new upgrades.
• Added six new achievements, one of which is a secret!
• Added two special kinds of achievements: Rare and Hidden. Hidden achievements are extremely hard to find but don't count towards Game Progress, whereas Rare achievements are just difficult. Both have fancy looks, however!
• Reduced the number of different time-played-based achievements down to just three, for playing five hours, one day, and one week. As it was, there was too many of them, and they were unimaginative and unimpactful. Besides, the last one took you 30 days to get! That's a little nuts for such a small game.
• Game progress is now actually tracked and the statistic for it updated. This statistic tracks how many of the combined achievements/upgrades/buildings you've discovered.
• The top-right box is now used for noteworthy messages. Achievements notifications, for example.

• Upgraded Bootstrap to 5.1.3.
• Added a confirmation dialog to save deletion to help prevent accidents.
• Changed around some of the achievement's & upgrade's flavor text to hopefully improve the humor some.
• Achievements now appear in a consistent order, rather than whatever order they got achieved in.
• Achievements now have icons attached to indicate peculiar qualities about them. Currently only used for rare and hidden achievements.
• Achievement reward descriptions are now always visible, instead of being shown only on hover. This is both for mobile users and also because the text shoving other achievements around was rather annoying.
• Removed CSS that disabled outline on buttons/links that were focused as that outline is important for accessibility. Might replace the outline with a different focus indicator later.
• Removed the 'Achievement Get' achievement. If I'm going to be meta, I should at least be creative!
• A bunch of various optimizations and balance changes that'd take too much space to list here. Seriously, I rewrote most of the game.
• Added a layout change for screens that are 1,300 pixels or less wide that should dramatically increase usability for smaller screens. This alone should make the game playable on mobile where it previously wasn't.
• Improved number shortening; now supports numbers up to Quattuordecillion (i.e. 10⁴⁵).
• Achievements are now unlocked based on various different events (e.g. building purchases, ticks, prestiging) that should allow for much more efficient unlock checks, as well as being much easier to work with.
• Efficiency Indicators upgrade now shows the most efficient building in each category, as well as now working on Production buildings. Efficient buildings also now have a blue tinge to them.
• The Time Played statistic now has a separate number for tracking days.

• Fixed Production-made buildings not counting towards 'Own one of each X' achievements.
• Fixed Completionist achievement not requiring any upgrades to be bought in order to be unlocked.
• Fixed purchased upgrades from a loaded save not appearing in the Purchased Upgrades section.
• Fixed importing saves not working like regular save loading does; they now operate identically and this fixes a number of bugs.
• Fixed manual click statistic increasing due to rounding errors when trying to sell zero stock
• Fixed some rounding errors in stock/money per second values, though others remain that have proven maddening to catch
• Fixed bug that prevented purchasable upgrades from being shown after loading a save if they'd been made visible but not purchased
• Fixed duplicates of achievements showing up when importing a save with achievements in it that were already earned before importing
• Fixed upgrade listings not animating when initially shown
• Fixed number abbreviations so that they don't do rounding
• Fixed number abbreviations for income restarting from zero when making over 1,000/sec of either currency
• Fixed time played achievements & Time Played stat so that it's properly tracking the amount of time the game has been played, rather than real-time elapsed since save creation

Finally returning to this after... just shy of 8 years. Whew. It's been a bit.

Aaaannnyyywayy, a lot's happened in the meantime, but I'm going to focus here on why I'm back; I got reminded of this after I got back into incremental games recently, and realized it wasn't being hosted anymore. Long story short: This is now being hosted off Github Pages, and the domain is directly owned by me. The old domain appears to have been snatched up by a skeezy domain parker, so I'd suggest not going there.

Still though, I am back. I'm not sure right now what I'll be doing with this just yet. I'm considering polishing it, but my code's improved a lot over seven years, and this project has not aged well with that in mind; restarting the project might be less work than fixing it at this point. At any rate, until that's decided, here's a stability + QoL update to bring this into 2021. Enjoy!

• Removed the advertisement. This never brought much income anyways, and it's not worth it to have Google's tracking here.
• Removed Google Analytics, for much the same reason as above; I've gotten a lot more privacy-conscious over the last 7 years, and so this no longer has any place on this site.
• Updated jQuery to 3.6.0. Quite frankly, I'm astonished updating jQuery by this much worked so well — I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.
• Updated Bootstrap to 3.4.1. I'd update further, but unlike jQuery, major version changes broke everything hard. Might still do this later, though.
• Increased the size of the center two panels to reduce the amount of dead space on the screen.
• Shrank the footer some thanks to the space freed by removing the ad.
• Removed donation window, as well as the Twitter share button, More Games button and Old Version button (since I'm not hosting that anymore).
• Fixed broken arrows for the stock/sec and money/sec tooltips.
• Fixed clicking the Manufacture button causing the Sell button & money display to get bumped down a bit.
• Fixed purchasing any upgrade causing the base 'Undefined Improvement' upgrade appearing in the Purchased Upgrades section.

Optimization and a few new things.
I'm going to be busy paticipating in Ludum Dare, so expect a small update next week.

• Added 4 upgrades, two of which have unique features associated to them
• Switched Statistics and Options tab placements - game now loads to the Statistics tab
• Upgrades code rewritten to work similarly to how achievement code works. Future upgrades will be easier to add to the game, and game may be a little faster
• Fixed bug with time-played achievements that made them not use delta time like they should

Another bugfix update.

• Fixed bug with delta time calculation that caused loading a save to multiply building efficiency by a ludicrous amount for one frame
• Removed old code that added now-unused values to saves that didn't have them

Small bugfix update.

• Updated the game to work using delta time instead. Switching tabs should no longer slow things down
• Tab switching was also affecting the Time Wasted stat, making it fall behind - this is also fixed
• Randomization should no longer make higher tier Generation and Sales buildings weaker than their predecessors

I appear to suffer from Valve Time.

• Did a bunch of back-end work to improve code readability
• Improved the building generation code, making achievement rewards and upgrades work better, also may have improved performance
• Switched icons to Font Awesome
• Added twitter button to the bottom of the page
• Added 7 achievements and 7 achievement rewards for all your achieving needs
• 1 more secret change you can find by unlocking the new achievements
• Fixed big save-loading bug with achievements that broke the game

This was just a little bit overdue.

• Revamped the code for achievements, with 3 new achievements added
• As a result of the above, some achievements now provide rewards
• Fixed up Upgrade buttons to have their CSS again.
• Fixed spacing problem with purchase buttons

Small bugfix patch.

• Fixed a bug with building prices
• Fixed a bug with loading building base costs
• Fixed a bug with production building timers not showing when loading a save that should have them

Third development version for third edition of the game after not having an update for three weeks. Much three.

• Achievements are now earned properly
• Added twelve new achievements and text to notify you when you get them
• Production randomization fixed to work like the other building types
• Can now sell buildings
• Flavor text removed (with exceptions) - will be re-added as I come up with stuff. If you have an idea for something funny, feel free to message me on reddit

Small patch.

• Fixed bug with loading saves
• Added four more upgrades

Second development version for the third edition of the game.

• Production timers are now affected by game speed
• Three more Generation buildings added
• Prices & yields are now randomly modified each new game (but with same modifier, so no high-price-low-yield or vice-versa)
• Fixed a few rounding errors
• Upgrades added

First development version for the third edition of the game.

• Sell/Manufacture & Stock/Money complete
• Purchasing, Statistics & Changelog complete
• Saving, Autosaving & Deleting saves complete
• Can now import & export saves as encoded text
• Large numbers are abbreviated all the way to undecillions