Mobile tycoon games – idle games, incremental games, clicker games – are consistently among the top-grossing apps on the App Store and Google Play. Games like AdVenture Capitalist, Cookie Clicker, Idle Miner Tycoon, and Egg, Inc. look deceptively simple. Underneath that simplicity is a carefully engineered system of psychological loops, exponential curves, and pacing decisions. This course pulls all of that apart, piece by piece.
You’ll learn how to design the core tap-earn-upgrade loop, how to use exponential math to keep players progressing for months, how to build idle and offline mechanics that bring players back every day, how to design a balanced in-game economy, how to structure upgrades and prestige systems, how to monetize without feeling predatory, and how to add the game feel that turns a functional loop into something players genuinely love.
