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Not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be - New GROW game!

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09:58 am September 17th, 2005
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New GROW game!
Hey, I know how you can spend your whole Saturday!

There's a new GROW game out from the guy who created Alien Whack-A-Mole, my favorite Internet game evar.

As if GROW and GROW RPG weren't already time-suck enough. But what the hell. I love this guy's little Flash games. I spent a couple of hours I couldn't spare on this game last night, meaning I was up until 5 a.m. working, but hey, I got half the items to their level max.

Must… resist… urge… to… play… all… day…

Edited to add:

[info]storme was the first person I know of to post a solution. Here 'tis, for the impatient:

The correct sequence is: man, water, flowers, pot, tube, fire, dish, bone, spring, ball. Rock on!

I'm-a feelin': bouncy
20 people still haven't weakened / Isn't it a great life?
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Thread started by snale
snale From: [info]snale Date: September 17th, 2005 05:10 pm (UTC) (Link)

new GROW rocks
Awesome! Thanks for the link!
I just figured it out. (After wasting my entire moring...)
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 17th, 2005 05:21 pm (UTC) (Link)

Re: new GROW rocks
If you were having fun, it wasn't a waste. Or maybe not MUCH of one. :^) Care to share your solution? I haven't had time to work on it this morning, but I'm dying to see how close I came.
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snale From: [info]snale Date: September 17th, 2005 05:42 pm (UTC) (Link)

Re: new GROW rocks
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Thread started by Off-Coloratura
off_coloratura From: [info]off_coloratura Date: September 17th, 2005 05:18 pm (UTC) (Link)
Solved it.

Also, damn you.
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 17th, 2005 05:22 pm (UTC) (Link)
Man! Why is everyone cooler than me? I spent two hours on it this morning and didn't solve it.
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Thread started by smrt girl
chi_xing From: [info]chi_xing Date: September 17th, 2005 05:51 pm (UTC) (Link)
congratulations - I thought I had found all the ways I could possibly procrastinate, but apparently, there's more...

I thank you, but my homework doesn't :)
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 17th, 2005 06:33 pm (UTC) (Link)
Oh, there are ALWAYS more ways to procrastinate. Check out the rest of the site! It's procrastilicious.

And that's a wonderful icon, by the way.
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Thread started by Graham
grahamwest From: [info]grahamwest Date: September 17th, 2005 06:44 pm (UTC) (Link)
That's a great little game. Took me about an hour to figure out the solution - I love his art style and thought process. Now I have to go back and solve the original one (which I played a bit ages ago)...
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 17th, 2005 06:50 pm (UTC) (Link)
And don't forget the RPG version…
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grahamwest From: [info]grahamwest Date: September 17th, 2005 08:10 pm (UTC) (Link)
I've since solved both. They're pretty cool. The RPG is especially great, what with that long ending. I'm impressed at how many individual wrong outcomes are covered in the RPG, too. A collection of these would make a great little handheld product - maybe 8 or 10 of them all themed together so they told some larger story. Maybe the little people from the latest one on some journey?
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Thread started by Shayde
shayde From: [info]shayde Date: September 17th, 2005 07:28 pm (UTC) (Link)
Wootah! I've been playing / reviewing these things for a while. Just linked to you from planet geek.

And I'm NOT playing this now. Nope nope nope. Not playing it. er. hm. i wonde... NOPE! Not playing!
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 17th, 2005 07:39 pm (UTC) (Link)
Aw, just one little PEAK won't hurt! Look, little men building a world out of a cube! It's so adorable!
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shayde From: [info]shayde Date: September 17th, 2005 08:04 pm (UTC) (Link)
evil temptress.
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Thread started by Not waving but drowning
komainu From: [info]komainu Date: September 19th, 2005 09:42 pm (UTC) (Link)
Holy craptators, there goes the last of my sanity. So far I think I like it better than GROW RPG. I'm sure it'll take me a lot longer to dope out.

On the short list of things that make me go squee.
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 20th, 2005 03:25 am (UTC) (Link)
I like it best of all of them. GROW RPG just didn't quite do it for me — it's all in the end segment, which takes too long. And the original GROW was thrilling, but this is just as thrilling, and also cuter.
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Thread started by corvi
corivax From: [info]corivax Date: September 20th, 2005 12:58 am (UTC) (Link)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! So cute! So fun!

... though, does anyone else get the impression teh creator is doing a steadily increasing amount of mescaline? That last one is just wierd.
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 20th, 2005 03:26 am (UTC) (Link)
Oh hell yes. The end result of this one is awful damn bizarre.
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Thread started by the girl with a patch of sky on her arm
vixyish From: [info]vixyish Date: September 20th, 2005 04:34 pm (UTC) (Link)
Wow. I had never heard of these.

TIME! SINK! :)
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rollick From: [info]rollick Date: September 20th, 2005 04:40 pm (UTC) (Link)
But such a FUN one!
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From: (Anonymous) Date: January 14th, 2008 06:01 pm (UTC) (Link)
But wait! There's more! Google "grow island" and see what appears! If you can't read the instructions, just click the button marked "English" to get rid of that pesky Japanese.
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20 people still haven't weakened / Isn't it a great life?

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