Fake Cookie Clicker Definitive Edition

Fake Cookie Clicker Definitive Edition is the unfinished Javascript version of Fake Cookie Clicker Classic, released on January 28th 2022 and with less buildings but more unique features than its Scratch counterpart.

Made in Khan Academy, it has quite a lot of lines of code (557) for quite a lot of things, although a bit of it is recycled lines of codes for similiar things like achievements and buildings and upgrades.

It has quite a few differences from its older counterpart which we'll get into right now.

## Differences

### Gameplay differences

* Buildings
* The Golden Cookie
* The price board
* The Big Cookie

While the features in FCC Definitive Edition are:
* Buildings
* The stats page
* Upgrades
* Achievements
 Quality of life for coders
 Gameplay life
 Similarities to the original Cookie Clicker
* Bakeginner = Wake and bake
* Nice Try = God Complex
* Won't Budge = God Complex
* Can You Fix It? = Click/Grandma's cookies
* Rolling In the Dough = Making some dough
* Enough to feed a highschool = So baked right now

and a Stats page with the same things
In Definitive Edition, there are 17 similiarities, all 11 achievements as mentioned before, all 2 upgrades, all 2 buildings, the stats page, and the cookies being above the big cookie without anything else being there (except CpS so it should really be 11.5 similiarities)

Just look at the table and draw conclusions of your own, but currently Definitive Edition is in the lead with 3, maybe even all 4 questions gotten. But what other features are there? Well, basically none but here's a list of features and what they do.

## Features

* Cursors and grandmas, or buildings as a whole give you an amount of cookies per second which is the only currency (as sugar lumps haven't been added yet). However, even the first building costs cookies. Where do you get those cookies, you don't start off with a building? Well, you get those from
* the Big Cookie is a Big Cookie to the left of the screen that you can click to get 1 cookie so technically you could get to a million cookies by using auto clicker, however I strongly advise not to as if auto-clicker clicked the cookie 50 times every second (which is very very generous), it would take 5 hours, 33 minutes, and 20 seconds to get to a million cookies, which is assuming you have auto clicker because if not that would take at least more than 1 week. But what if you didn't want to be so weak in clicking power? Well, then look no further as there's an upgrade for that,
* literally an Upgrade. Upgrades are self explanatory as they upgrade things to be more powerful. Way more powerful, about two times more powerful. However, this does come with a cost as they get expensive. Take a look at the cursor upgrade. It costs 250 cookies and when you buy it once, the cursor becomes 2 times more powerful, so 15 cursors would be 3 CpS then 6 CpS then 12 then 24 then 48 CpS. But that would cost 250 then 2500 then 25,000 then 250,000 then 2,500,000 cookies, way too much for even a grandma. So how do you know when you have too much cookies? Well, with cookie-related
* achievements, of course! Achievements are things that you achieve as you progress through the game. Some are way too easy (like Bakeginner) and others are way too hard (Enough to feed a highschool). And adding insult to injury, there used to be a bug where if you somehow got really unlucky and got 2 cookies on the same frame, you would never be able to get to 100,000 cookies again unless you spent something and didn't get unlucky again, which considering the fact that having more than one grandma exists, and you can't sell buildings in the game, you'd have to get a little luckier and get an odd number on the price. But wait, how do you even know you got an achievement? Well, with the
* stats page, of course! The stats page allows you to see your achievements and your cookies, all time cookies, CpS, and buildings. Nothing much to see there, and also nothing much to see here anymore as this is the last unique feature!

All these features in the game, pretty cool! But even though recycled lines of codes is the theme here, as README said:

"Javascript is pretty infuriating and I want to come back to Scratch Edition."

Well, not those exact words but who cares, the points across.

However, README didn't always say that. And that brings us to our next topic:

## History

*For more information, see Version History.*

### Chapter 0: Idea (1/21/2022)

On January the 21st, 2022, 7 days before DE released, a post by Jaydar stated these two important statements:

"Sorry, fans, but the next update might not be for a while!

You see, I'm juggling a lot of things all at once: School, homework, Scratch, this wiki, and now drums and **javascript learning**. So, until I have a break off school, I might not make any updates other than bug fixes."

AND

"P.S: If you're wondering if the whole "**javascript learning**" thing means that I'm going to make a **javascript edition** at some point, then my answer to you is "**maybe**"."

Those sentences made the idea for a new version of FCC, that would be known as... Hang on, we don't have a name yet. Let's see what the name is in the next chapter...

### Chapter 1: Early days (Pre-cursor stuff)

The confirmation that a new version of FCC would come came from this post 2 days before the game released. The post was made by Jaydario and they had low expectations for themself as they expected the alpha version to release by August the 7th. The post also said that they had other things to do than work on the game and that it might not release by August 7th.

Even before the game was created, they had conflicting opinions on the name of the game. There were 3 options that they had thought of:

* Faker Cookie Clicker
* Fake Cookie Clicker: Definitive Edition
* Fake Cookie Clicker: JavaScript Edition

Jaydar made a poll about the names and obviously, Definitive Edition won.

The next update about the game came 1 day after release on January the 29th, and that was the link to the first known prototype of the game when not counting the prequel/FCC Classic.

In that prototype, there was nothing but the big cookie and the cookie counter.

In the post however, there was a bit of information about the new version. It firstly says that the prototype was extremely rudimentary and after that, it answers a few questions. To emphasize that this is not the most serious thing in the world, we'll present it like this:

#### Questions and Answers

Question: So what is the name?

Answer: Definitive Edition.

Question: Is the hitbox of the big cookie accurate?

Answer: Not at all, it's a square.

Question: Will the old version get updated anymore?

Answer: Yes, it will, mainly because I don't want you morons to leave this game so that the wiki shrivels up and dies. However, since I know some of you other morons are excited for this new game, I'll focus on this more as a compromise.

Question: What about the upcoming features page? Will those features go into FCC DE?

Answer: Most of them will, it's D E F I N I T I V E Edition.

Bonus Question: If this is so rudimentary, how is it even a prototype?

Answer: Good question, it's more like a proof of concept.

But so far, there's nothing to make FCC DE a worthy opponent to the original one except maybe as a redesigned CpS test, but not as a game in anyone's eyes. Luckily, that will change...

### Chapter 2: Mid-game (Cursor-Grandma)

On February the 5th, 2022, a post by Jaydar announced buildings in Definitive Edition. It showed a link to the post in Chapter 0 about how it took so long for the update to happen, but it also said that you could play the new beta there. Unfortunately, we can't preserve that history as every time a new update happens, it overwrites the previous update's code... unless you copy the code of the update every time it happens.

Anyway, there's nothing else from that post that is important. Onto the next...

The next post that is important was created 8 days after that and it said that it added the stats screen to DE. It also inttroduced the naming convention of the original being called "Fake Cookie Clicker Classic" instead of just "Fake Cookie Clicker".

However, on the same day, another post/another update happened. That update introduced the first upgrade and was followed by a less serious poll asking if people were excited for DE to be DonE. The post had 5 options:

* Yes
* Kinda
* No
* Not sure
* (See votes :\)

The results were a 50-50 tie between Yes and Kinda, with A2A2tgt voting Kinda and Jaydar voting Yes.

The next important post was the first one by A2A2tgt, and it simply read: I really liked making the upgrades page. You should make another upgrade jaydar

#### Late-mid game (Cursor upgrade-Grandma)

That doesn't seem too important by itself, but it was followed by a comment from Jaydar themself which read basically:

As I said in my post about DElays, life is busy so I think the first beta (currently I call DE an alpha) to be DonE in August. I will get to upgrades, updates, and other stuff soon, but life is busy. Meanwhile, we need to work on the code documentation pages for FCC DE, and also make a coDE DocumEntation page for upgraDEs. I can't do it myself either because I only have a tablet and Fandom DoEsn't like my tablet.

After that, they locked the post.

The next important post was also by A2A2tgt and was made on February the 19th, 2022. Again, the post wasn't the important bit as it just said:

*Made some more pages and updates to pages, get dethroned as the longest page version history.*

*I like updating code documentation pages.*

The following conversation followed like this:

*Jaydar: Also I'm working on a new upgrade right now.*

*A2A2tgt: Is it gonna be the **cursor upgrade**? Oh wait that's obvious*

*Jaydar: Yep. I might also add the **grandma**.*

*A2A2tgt: Also here's a thing you could do to differentiate this from Cookie Clicker a bit more, you could click a button to go into a minigame where the prize is a few more cookies.*

*Jaydar: I don't know, my motto is "Striving for Unoriginality".*

The first three comments are the most important ones as they confirm that we're getting close to the end of the chapter, because of the grandma.

On that same day, the cursor upgrade was finished and on the following day, A2A2tgt finished making updates to pages about that upgrade.

A quite less important post was also made by A2A2tgt and it read:

*Should there be a little wave of advertising this wiki? I mean, the only reason I'm even here is because you advertised on the real game's wiki...*

After that there was a conversation that read:

*Jaydar: A wave of advertising WHAT, though?*

*A2A2tgt: Definitive edition*

*Jaydar: maybe*

After that, the next post that was more important was a quick heads up by Jaydar that read:

*I'm planning to do some cleanup on DE's coDE this week as a winter cleaning upDatE so get ready to upDatE the coDE DocumEntation pages.*

However, that didn't happen because of the next important post, which was made on March the 9th 2022 about how the cleaning update would not happen for a bit because the ideas for cleaning up the code broke up the code.

After that, there was almost a month long wait between the last post and the next, on April the 8th, 2022. It said that achievements were added to DE. It also said that there was more information about them on their blog.

### Chapter 3: A new age (Grandma-present day)

The day after that, Jaydar said that they thought it was enough time and that they would add the grandma to DE. This was quickly followed up by a comment from A2A2tgt simply saying: *ALRIGHT*
On the same day, the speedrun saga started, starting with a different post saying: *petition to get fake cookie clicker definitive edition on speedrun.com*. It then said: *(I know this is in the memes category, but i do think it would be cool to get fake cookie clicker: definitive edition as a game on speedrun.com*
It would be awesome to see some speedruns*.*

On the same day, A2A2tgt brought to Jaydar's attention the fact that the Grandma was really buggy with a poll that said: *Do you think there should be a big bug fixing update soon?*
That was followed by the conversation here:
*Jaydar: I'm so sorry that DE has become a janky, broken mess. I did a small patch to the game to fix a couple bugs. Should I just get rid of Grandma, since adding her was when everything fell apart?*
*A2A2tgt: What I mean is that every so often there should be a big bug upDatE.*
*A2A2tgt: ALSO DO NOT GET RID OF GRANDMA*
*Jaydar: Aight, I'll check on the BG(a)JB (bugs, glitches, and janky behavior) page in ~1 week, maybe I'll do some fixing.*
4 POSTS IN ONE DAY? After that, Jaydar made a poll saying:
*How buggy has your experience been with DE since V0.0005?*

* Bug-Free (total lie, though)
* Slightly buggy
* Buggy as an anthill
* Cyberpunk 2077

And the results were 100% Slightly buggy.

5 POSTS AND 3 BUG RELATED POSTS IN ONE DAY?

A2A2tgt made a post saying: *So I was making a page and had Fake Cookie Clicker running in the background...*And I noticed that even though I had 10,000 cookies baked and even 10,000 cookies in the bank, I hadn't got the achievement for it.

Bla bla bla conversation bla

*Jaydar: oh sorry, I didn't use >= for the achievement requirements, I'll go ahead and fix that*

change the requirement to be like ~10 cookies higher than your current all time cookie count

you shouldn't feel bad about changing the code when the game broke

6 PO-

Jaydar made a post saying: *Arright, I think I'm done patching bugs for the day, just to stop myself from going down a rabbit hole the size of Canada*

After that, there was a 3 day long draught before A2A2tgt said something not related to DE. Keep looking.

The following day, Jaydar said: *Should we work on making FCC and FCC DE Speedruns a thing?*

* Yes
* I don't really care
* No

 *and the results were 50 percent Yes, and 50 percent I don't really care.*

The following day, A2A2tgt made a post about how Lowclick% 1M cookies in both versions took almost 4 months to beat.

The following day (following day count: 3), Jaydar made a post about how we'd have to wait a bit for speedrun.com leaderboards.

After that, there were a bunch of non DE related Speedrun related posts until the 21st of April, 2022, where A2A2tgt said: *I just added names to the updates on the Version History page*

I also got an idea for the achievement for getting maybe 10 grandmas, it'd be "Family business"
Then Jaydar said: *Hmmm... sounds like a good name...*After all, every achievement name doesn't have to be a reference. *And A2A2tgt's suggestion made it into DE!*

On the same day, Jaydar basically said:

*Everyone is a good idea person here and that gives me an idea, I can make some advertisements on the real Cookie Clicker wiki, on both the wiki and DE's upDatEs.*

Then there was a 4 day long drought in FCC DE only related posts until the 25th, when A2A2tgt made a post about different code for different building CpS, which basically listed the code for every building CpS up until the wizard tower.

On that day, Jaydar also said *I'm learning how to make webpages interactive using DOM, so don't expect updates to both games too soon.*

I'm also thinking about making a version of FCC Classic with better graphics, but it won't replace the original.

The reason I'm learning DOM is so that there are scroll bars on the stats screen and other places, I'm worried that I'll add too many achievements and you won't see them all. I can also turn the graphics into images for space saving reasons.

Then, on the 1st of May, A2A2tgt made a question poll about which image was faked, not vanilla. The answer was A, and everyone picked A.

On the same day, the same person made a post about minigames and ideas for them.
Then, on the 11th of May, Jaydar made a post about how they put the code of FCC DE on GitHub so that the code documentation pages weren't alone.

More versions were created, and eventually A2A2tgt decided to make a spin-off featuring the farm... if it worked.

And that is where we are today!

## Reception

Although about 2 people know about it, one of those 2 people made an entire spin-off of it with the farm in it.

1. ↑ You can misspell Orteil as Ortiel to get a -2% CpS bonus.
2. ↑ Actually, Definitive Edition didn't win but it was a 50-50 tie. However, Jaydar actually voted for the first option while A2A2tgt voted for the 2nd option and since the poll was intended for the community, using that name was better than not.