True Exponential
The first incremental with truly exponential progress: 2^n growth, by the developer who wrote the genre's math bible.
by angarg12 · 2018 · Web (GitHub Pages / itch / Kongregate)
True Exponential is angarg12's math incremental, the third entry from the Idle Royale and Table of Elements developer, with a claim its own title asserts: the first incremental with truly exponential progress, growing at 2^n rather than the genre's usual polite polynomials. angarg12 is also the author of the community's canonical growth-curves post, cited by Game Developer's Math of Idle Games piece, so the claim comes with receipts.
What the loop feels like
You double a number, the number doubles the next number, and the curve stays honest to its name. That's True Exponential.
Playing it today
Free at the official GitHub Pages build (verified 200) and on itch.io and Kongregate, with the T^e logo cover and two itch screenshots above. The GitHub Pages build is plain JS/text with no in-game art beyond the itch-hosted assets, which the entry states.
The verdict
A math-provocation made playable: when the community's growth-curve expert ships a game about curves, the curve is the argument.
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