Zip Points
Click +1^0, convert, climb the exponent ladder: the ultra-minimalist idle whose title is 'I am IDLE, yes I am!'
by XhwZwkA · 2024 · Web (GitHub Pages)
Zip Points is XhwZwkA's ultra-minimalist text incremental, listed in the Ultimate List under its own HTML title, I am IDLE, yes I am!: click for +1^0, convert, and climb an exponent ladder to prestige. It lives at xhwzwka.github.io/Zip-Points (verified 200, title-confirmed), and the repo is index.html, main.js and a stylesheet, nothing else.
What the loop feels like
You click a one, the one becomes a power, and the power becomes a ladder. That's Zip Points.
Playing it today
Live and playable at the official page, with a fresh gameplay capture above, because the game has no artwork anywhere: no favicon, no header, nothing. One correction on the record: the seed and wiki both mark it dead/abandoned, but it is fully playable today, so this entry's status reads abandoned-by-author, not defunct, with the discrepancy documented.
The verdict
A pure-mechanics idle with no art to distract from the ladder: the genre distilled to exponents and stubbornness.
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