Grow Island
Grow Island: the latest entry in the Grow series of Flash-based web games. I completed it, but wasn't quite sure what was happening on screen the entire time.
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Grow Island: the latest entry in the Grow series of Flash-based web games. I completed it, but wasn't quite sure what was happening on screen the entire time.
now can you get it to the "ufo" level?
Wow, the UFO level is very weird. I cheated to get there, and I'm glad I did since getting there doesn't involve following the typical Grow logic.
Did you find it naturally?
God, no. I actually had to cheat to get even to the "true" end: I got to a solution that seemed logical and seemingly maxed everything out, but for some reason didn't have roads all the way (they were at 3 I think). Pretty much all the same stuff happened as in the real solution, but it happened *after* the scores were revealed, and one item got upgraded to UFO. I had already spend too much time on it at that point so I used the walkthrough posted in jayisgames, which also had the ufo solution. I was kind of annoyed -- based on grow logic I couldn't figure out why my solution was wrong and the right solution right, but when there are 2^8 possible ways to do the game, I guess these things can happen. As far as I can tell the UFO solution is almost the opposite of the correct order, from a grow logic POV, so I suppose it could be found if one tried hard enough.
I really enjoy On's design sensibilities. If you haven't played dwarf complete I highly recommend it.