A game about sending emails

Play the game total play time ~7 minutes

I had been playing Universal Paperclips and Cookie Clicker the past month and was wondering how these incremental games could be so addictive, especially when they are so bare-bones. Just numbers going up, but still somehow hard to stop playing.

I was mostly exploring rough UX ideas around the "gamification" of future web projects and what makes products fun, intuitive, and engaging to use. There’s definitely a lot there. It’s interesting how such simple systems can create a sense of progress and reward just through pacing, scaling, and feedback.

On the technical side, I built it with HTML, CSS, and TypeScript, using Vite as the package manager and build tool. I spent some time setting up a solid base, but later used Claude to help refactor and connect the dots between the different components.