Arrow keys to move the screen. Tap to earn Questions Tap on an upgrade to buy it The price of an upgrade will be on it or listed as a variable (top left) Press “U” to show purchased upgrades
This is a REALLY old project that I found buried in the bottom of “My Stuff”. I have no intention on ever continuing this, as it runs in an engine that is two and a half years old. If I ever tried to recreate The Big Questions nowadays, I’d probably start over from scratch instead of porting this version over. A very uneventful 100th project, I know. Everything following this message was written in 2022 Data and images gathered from: https://cell-to-singularity.fandom.com/wiki/The_Big_Questions ———————————————————————— Days of Development 08/24/2022–08/26/2022 Added philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, two philosophy upgrades, three ethics upgrades, and one political philosophy upgrade. 8/30/22 Added DoD (Days of Development) to keep track of updates. Fixed a bug where the Uncertainty node cost eleven instead of ten. 9/06/22 Beta released 9/16/22 Changed animation when buying philosophy the first time. The arrow in What is Ethical no longer is part of the sprite. 9/19/22 Added number abbreviation for the questions variable. Credit to @cs2889410 9/20/22 Added abbreviation for generator prices and questions per second. Made the arrow disappear after buying 10 Ethics 9/21/22 Added Moral Skepticism as a 400% boost to ethics. 9/22/22 (nice) Added Autocracy as a 50% boost to Political Philosophy. Added FPS tracker. 9/23/22 Updated instructions. 9/24/22 The game is in development for one month now This is gonna take a while, isn't it? -_- 9/30/22 Changed upgrades to be multiplicative instead of additive. Fixed a bug where purchasing Autocracy caused it to disappear. 10/1/22 Added What is Power? as a 100% boost to Political Philosophy. Added Divine right as a 200% boost to Political Philosophy. Added What is True? as a 2500% boost to Philosophy. Added Epistemology as a new generator. 10/3/22 Added sound when buying a new generator for the first time. Renamed Political Philosophy to Politics for convenience. ADDED MUSIC :D 10/6/22 New beta released. Changed the introductory cutscene. Removed upgrade name abbreviations. 10/7/2022 Fixed a bug where 70% of upgrades wouldn't show up. Removed/changed intro cutscene. 10/13/22 Removed the arrow. Added glowing path for the Ethics sub-tree. THE LINE IS BROKE 10/19/22 Found the correct music on YouTube. 10/20/22 COMPLETELY REWROTE ALL THE CODE. Re-added the pen. 10/24/22 Added nanobots. The game is TWO MONTHS OLD Now. 10/25/22 Finished fixing all the code. Added What Do We Know? as a 100% boost to Epistemology. Fixed a MAJOR BUG where every generator ONLY PRODUCED 1/SEC!!! Removed the FPS tracker as it was highly inaccurate. Fixed a bug where the nanobots would appear behind some upgrades 11/18/22 (its been way too long) Multiplied speed of all generators by 10x for convince. Updated nanobot sprite. Removed dev code. 11/19/22 Added Machiavellianism as a 25000% boost to Politics. Added Pramana as a 100% boost to Epistemology
