What Tools and Calculators Are Available on About Patsy?

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The About Patsy site (coderpatsy.bitbucket.io) is a small personal project page that hosts browser-based utilities for two incremental games: Kittens Game and Cookie Clicker. The tools fall into two groups — save handling (decoding and editing game saves) and planning calculators (working out resource or price figures). All of them run as simple web interfaces, and unless a page says otherwise, the code is released under an MIT license.

Kittens Game Tools

The Kittens Game section covers both save manipulation and in-game planning:

  • Save decoder — a simple interface for decoding and encoding incremental game saves. It is aimed at saves that compress JSON to base64 using LZString, which is the format Kittens Game uses.
  • Save editor utilities — a set of utilities for Kittens Game, with the source kept in a public repository.
  • Catnip Calculator — for working out catnip figures.
  • Unicorns Calculator — for unicorn-related planning.
  • Energy Calculator — for energy calculations.
  • Max Science Calculator — for working out maximum science.

The save decoder is the most broadly useful entry point: if you have a save string you want to inspect or a JSON save you want to turn back into a game-loadable string, that is the tool to start with. The calculators are planning aids — you supply the inputs relevant to that resource and read off the result.

Cookie Clicker Tools

The Cookie Clicker section follows the same pattern:

  • Cookies Calculator — for cookie-related calculations.
  • Cookies Save Editor — for editing Cookie Clicker saves.
  • Cookies Buildings Price Calculator — for working out building prices.

How the Tools Fit Together

Game Save handling Planning calculators
Kittens Game Save decoder, save editor utilities Catnip, Unicorns, Energy, Max Science
Cookie Clicker Cookies Save Editor Cookies Calculator, Cookies Buildings Price Calculator

A practical workflow looks like this: export your save from the game, run it through the decoder or save editor if you need to inspect or change something, then use the relevant calculator to plan your next step. For example, if you want to know what a building will cost before committing resources, the Cookies Buildings Price Calculator is the direct route; if you want to check what is inside a Kittens Game save string, start with the save decoder.

What to Keep in Mind

  • These are fan-made utilities on a personal site, not official game tools. Treat edited saves with the usual caution — back up the original before changing anything.
  • The page lists PayPal among its payment platforms, but nothing on the page indicates that the tools themselves require payment or an account; the calculators and decoders are presented as simple web interfaces.
  • The site also identifies its author as a contributor to Kittens Game (credited to bloodrizer), which is context for why the Kittens Game toolset is the more developed of the two.
  • Contact is listed as an email address (animperfectpatsy at gmail dot com) and a Bitbucket repository, so source code and issues go through Bitbucket rather than the site itself.