Grow is an arcade game - minimalistic in both style and gameplay. Part of the game is working out how the mechanics fit together, so I won't delve to deep into an explanation. Try it and see. Enjoy!
It does fit the theme, but there doesn't seem to be much going on. It was hard to tell which small dots would hurt me and which wouldn't. The controls were frustrating. I thought maybe it was gravity-based, but it seemed more random. Also got rather low FPS, maybe 10 or so.
the graphics are really nice and worth of the minimalistic label, but i thing that some background reference would have helped to discern the speed and acceleration of your movement.
Really nice minimal style game. The player movement can seem a bit lost when there is no reference to judge it by. Some star-field sort of effect, or some parallax particles may have helped. Still nice.
Really really nice! Showing the buttons on the circles is a lush touch. Consider perhaps adding some more static items in the world to make it possible to gauge your direction and speed?
As the other said, frustrating controls make the game hardly playable (Chrome / Win7). It's a shame, because it's beautiful, I get what I'm supposed to do and I want to play more...
Was really lovely aesthetically, definitely keeping to the minimalist theme. It all reminded me quite a bit of the game "flOw". The color channel offset when you got hit was a really nice effect.
I liked the lack of written instructions (besides the one instruction: "grow"), and the fact that you were guided by more visual things in the world rather than being explicitly told "do this, get that". It took me a little bit of time to work out what was going on, but once I understood (I think I understood..) I found it enjoyable. I'll have to come back and give this one another go later.
I think some ambient music wouldn't have gone a miss, but overall it felt rather enjoyable and very in line with the theme. Nice work!
Thanks for the kind words, rxi - that's exactly what I was going for. Hoping for a more "show, don't tell" kind of experience. I'll have to give you and the others' games a try!
Turns out there was a pretty significant bug in the controls when using the arrow keys, but not WASD. This is fixed now, so if anyone had trouble before and reads this you should give it another shot :)
I just hid at first, I didnt want to grow. Then when I finally left my bubble I ran into darkness and got scared by a sound. Yea... that was my adventure.
Really nice visuals and sound. The obscure mechanics were initially fun to discover and experiment with but I never really "got" it. (My own fault for not being patient enough!)
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Also: there's issues with the game not loading when your browser doesn't support audio, which I'll get to fixing tonight.
I liked the lack of written instructions (besides the one instruction: "grow"), and the fact that you were guided by more visual things in the world rather than being explicitly told "do this, get that". It took me a little bit of time to work out what was going on, but once I understood (I think I understood..) I found it enjoyable. I'll have to come back and give this one another go later.
I think some ambient music wouldn't have gone a miss, but overall it felt rather enjoyable and very in line with the theme. Nice work!
When I figure out the gameplay, it feel so good.
Good job!:D
Turns out there was a pretty significant bug in the controls when using the arrow keys, but not WASD. This is fixed now, so if anyone had trouble before and reads this you should give it another shot :)
Controls are a bit iffy though. Why does the ball tend to "jump" to certain areas?