User:VileShadows/Cookie Clicker Cosmology

Introduction

The purpose of this blog is to explain the cosmology of the idle game, Cookie Clicker, and how it affects the tiering of the verse. Without further delay, let’s get into it.

Parallel Universes

First, we need to talk about parallel universes. We obviously know of their existence through the "idleverse" building, idleverses being parallel universes that host other idle games, which the player can hijack to turn their production into cookies. In addition to this, even before the addition of the idleverse building, we know about the existence of parallel universes, as the "portal" building is said to open a portal to the “cookieverse”, a parallel universe that is made entirely of cookies. Other “subordinate” universes much like the Cookieverse are said to exist by “the multiverse in a nutshell” upgrade for the idleverse building, which states that each universe tends towards producing one type of product and is linked via many chaotic holes in spacetime to other subordinate realities that produce that type of product. There even exists higher dimensional parallel universes according to the “brane transplant” upgrade for the portal building, which the player is able to fuse with their own to increase cookie production. Now, we’ve established that Cookie Clicker is indeed a multiverse, but just how big is it? After all, there are only so many idleverses you can buy before they become impossible to buy. Well, even with this in-game restriction in mind, it is confirmed that the Cookie Clicker multiverse is infinite. The “encapsulated realities” upgrade of the idleverse building states that it allows the player to condense an infinite number of universes down to just a single sphere, of which they have multiple of. Needless to say, the base cosmology of Cookie Clicker is unarguably High 2-B, but is that where it stops?

The Real World

As it turns out, there is a higher level of reality that doesn’t involve the game’s ascension mechanic, and it is referred to simply as the “real world”. As the portal upgrade of the same name describes, the world we inhabit in Cookie Clicker is merely a “twisted dimension of another, saner plane of reality”. This suggests that the world of Cookie Clicker is merely a lower world from the perspective of a higher one which views it as a false, twisted reality. Adding this level of reality to our cosmology picture lands us at 2-A.

Transcendental Code

It’s no secret that Cookie Clicker is canonically a game, as there exists a building known as the “Javascript console” that allows the player to alter the game’s very code to produce more cookies. The “game design” upgrade for the idleverse building even refers to this code as being “transcendental” in nature, suggesting that one who wields it can view the totality of the multiverse as mere code to be manipulated.

"Each idleverse functions according to some form of transcendental programming, that much is a given. But they also seem to be governed by much more subtle rules, the logic of which, when harnessed, may give you unparalleled dominion over the multiverse. Rewrite the rules! A game designer is you!"

This of course gives the player one more layer of transcendence over reality, which would put their reality warping capabilities at Low 1-C.

Heaven

Heaven is the ultimate realm of the Cookie Clicker cosmology, transcending the totality of the multiverse. Heaven can be accessed by using the game’s ascension mechanic, which acts as this game’s prestige system, to give up all of their progress and ascend to Heaven where their progress is converted into Heavenly Chips that they can spend to buy upgrades that carry over across all playthroughs. The act of ascending to Heaven is even described as “ascending to a higher plane of reality” if the player ascends after having produced 1 septillion cookies from their bakery, which confirms Heaven as being yet another level of transcendence in our cosmology, even beyond the “transcendental programming” of the physical multiverse. Of course, this also means that the player’s act of ascension resets the entirety of the physical multiverse, as they give up all of their progress, reverting all of the events that occurred in their playthrough back to their initial conditions. Heaven as a layer of reality brings our cosmology to a final rating of Low 1-C+, though seeing as how the player is unable to control this reality, their reality warping potency will remain at Low 1-C.