Sprout

Wow
Out of all the games ive played lately that was definitely one of the best. I never knew that such a simple idea would make such a good game.
Top Bannana, and i want more!

Ok, great game and stuff. But to the people who thought that was an apple tree or tomato plant... seriously, when was the last time you saw a bird eat an entire stinking apple? Seriously, wake up your senses or something. It is some kind of berry bush - raspberry or something like that. Birds decimate those things.

Great game!!! Easy but it still takes some thought. It was a brilliant idea.

I win! I win! I never win... That was goregeous and I got through a game for once! Yea, me! It was a great end to my crappy day. I felt like I was visiting a far away land, like I could see myself there and the cool thing is, if you win, I'll be able to share it with my twenty month old later on in his life! Thank you! (curtsy)

Good game!! I finally figured it out. It was nicely done

how you get past desert

heeelp !
i cant get to open the game.
i want to play! : p

Marie - try this alternate link

I set that up just for you (and for anyone else having trouble accessing the game for any reason.) =)

Best game ever you should make more games like these!!!!

great game

BEST EVA GAME!!

aiks~ it's a nice game~ mm~

To pass the desert...

go back to the sheep place.. before the farmer and use the coconut to break it.. you need a few times~ ^^

enjoy!!

The plant is a pomegranate. Lovely game, very cool visuals.

P.S. do you have pomegranates over in America?

how to cross the river?

So cool!!! I want a sequel with more plants, longer board, and maybe more than one seed so that they can interact?

Oh and Andrew...I can't believe nobody thought of pomegranates!! Yes we have them in the USA, but I don't think they grow here!! ...which explains why nobody knows what that bush looks like ;)

stellar game

I got it

make a coconut when you are under the log sticking out then go back up and jump the river.

I knew it was a pomegranante the first time I saw it. I live in Oregon

Beautiful to look at, addictive to play and leaves you feeling like you've been of great benefit to an ecosystem... What more could we ask of a Grow game? Lovely.

Can anyone help me.. I don't know what to do in the desert..Please help:S

I loved playing this game, and I even enjoyed replaying it just to show my husband how neat it was. We both really liked the fact that it's somewhat educational too, in that it shows you how plants use wind, water, and animals to move around and grow. Just a great little game

this was one of if not the best game in the contest
it was deserving of first place
though I was hopeing gateway 2 would get the prize

I don't know how to get past the first sheep.

This game is gorgeous! good good

What an incredibly original little game!
Love the graphics!
Congratulations to the creator =)

Beautiful game! Congratulations! Now the inevitable-

I want MORE! :)

This was GREAT game! I loved the graphics and the choices. Plus the little seed thing was cool! Good Job!

break the dam, avoid the desert

Thank you all for your comments! As the little sprout would say; *boing* *boing*! Making this game was a ton of fun, and I'm glad so many people enjoyed playing it.

Huge thanks to Jay for creating this site, and bringing together such a great community of people. The links and reviews that jay and co. provide on a daily basis are really quite amazing. With so much stuff out there, this site's consistent quality and thoroughness is fantastic.

This contest was a great experience. I've always had lots of opinions about what makes games fun or not-so-fun, and this contest was the kick in the pants to finally "put up or shut up." The community on jayisgames is so open-minded, honest, and constructive that I knew if I put in the energy to do my best, it would be kindly received. So thank you all for being my inspiration, and giving me the confidence to do something a bit different.

I don't have any plans for a "Sprout II" just yet, but I'm sure one day the little green guy will tire of the crowded forest and dream of new exotic destinations. There's a whole world of adventures waiting out there!

Amazing game, but bug:

The second time I played, when I tried to scare the bird off, it...just kind of sat there.

The crowded forest to exotic destinations... it feels like as if one of those seeds want to go backwards in the storyline...

Quite addicting to see how the seedling and its plants interact with the environment, and it does have that imaginative flair thanks to the drawing styles. Good game to pass the time :).

cute game! good job, Jeff Nusz.

Amazing game, very addictive!

Congratulations Jeff =D

I'm glad that so many people (including the jury) knew better than me and valued this game as the best. After reading the people's comments I must say that I was blind for number of things that made 'Happy Seed' to distinguish from other games. Now that I consider this game, I noticed that there are a lot of unique problem solving and learning.

P.S. I just noticed that I can scroll the view horizontally if I hold the mouse near the edge. That is nice :)

Okay, clumsy me :(

I meant of course to say 'Sprout'. I scrolled up the page to check what was the name of the Jeff's game and as it happen there was 'Happy Seed' on Replay section.

Well, that would have been a good name for Jeff's game too if only it were not used already. That seed just must be happy :)

I need help! How do you get passed the desert? Anyone?

[If you'd just take a look through some of the past comments, this question has been asked (and answered) several times already. - SiteAdmin]

Bug: When I turned into a berry bush near the sheep, before I climbed over the hill, I wouldn't turn back. My guy just sat there with his fruit and I couldn't do anything.

hi again. i posted a comment earlier. just wanted to thank jeff for a great game! by the way....

dont go into the desert, and be PERSISTENT

I GOT IT! Wow, an actual 'logic' puzzle that seemed logical to me.

What a fun and beautiful little game.

Absolutely my favorite from this batch of great entries.

Thanks Jeff for making a game that teased my brain without making me feel dumb :)

Hi

Really great game, like the sounds, graphics and puzzles. I like the fact you have to be persistent and that you can go quite happily down the wrong path!

I found it really helped scrolling ahead to look at the terrain and then stopping and thinking about what I needed to do.

what a beautiful game, I absolutly loved it! so cute! and I made it through the whole game by my self! jizez! hope more comes! love the idea of the little seed that doesn't know what it wants to be! adorable, and so cute ending when (read spoiler for rest)

it becomes the tree and the nuts fall off and all the different plants it had been grew up from them, just adorable.

by the way, what you people have been calling tomato plant, apple tree, berry bush, whatever is actually a pomegranate, it has big seeds inside mixed with the red fruit inside, tastes actually very good!

What plant am i meant to be when i get to the desert? If i am a palm, the seed just stays there, if i am a flower, the seed blows back to the sheep and if i am a apple tree it burns, so what am i meant to do??? its a funny game but it frustrating when you have to backwards.
Please help me

Excellent game! Ecological and educative… it would have to be placed for all the people in schools. Congratulations!

The Tree/bush is a pomegranate bush/tree

That was an amazing game!! The thing took me a few to figure it out but it was awesome!!

To break the dam... If you loook there was the stone bridge?? That is actually the dam... Keep becoming a Palm tree until it breaks...Hope this helps a lot!

This game was SO COOL!

Ummm it wasnt bad...... could use a little more beef.but overall it was pretty good

is there anything to be added to this?im kinda curious so somebody please post the answer.the game was fun.

to get through the desert roll over the dam at the farm with the coconut many times if you dont know....meh.

hey are there any other games by this guy?the game calming,challenging,and best of all...fun!if so post it im interested

Here is the complete walkthrough (Sorry Jay I forgot my typKey account info)

After the intro, click on the coconut to float across the sea.

Learn how to become a dandelion, then click on the dandelion to float inland.

Click on the Coconut to roll back down into the depression.
Learn how to become a fruit bush.

Choose dandelion to float back up.

Choose fruit bush to attract the sheep.
He'll go back to the top of the hill.

Choose dandelion and you'll get stuck on the back of the sheep.
He'll carry you back home when he gets called in to his pen.
If you turn into a fruit tree to make your way into the desert you will get fried. But you get stuck and have to float back, anyways.

Choose dandelion (Yes you're flying backwards!).

Click on coconut. See how you hit the dam? Repeat this process until the dam breaks. This will cause a river to flow into the desert (If you don't do this, you can't turn into a fruit tree in the desert, you just burn up).

Now you can successfully turn yourself into a fruit tree in the desert.
The bird flies down and eats you and 'drops' you off on the top of the cliff.

Choose coconut to learn how to be a vine.
Choose fruit tree. The bird on the left steals you away and puts you back at the top of the cliff.
Choose vine to fling him away.
Then choose coconut to float back over.

Choose vine to climb up, then choose fruit tree to let the smaller bird to the right eat you.

Choose coconut. You end up rolling back under the branch.

Choose coconut to push the branch up. Then choose vine, then fruit to get back to the top of the hill.

Choose coconut to fly across the water. Then choose acorn to win.

they are pomegranates not tomatoes.

i really was hoping that the cactus would give the seed something

i have won it its sooo easy!!! it is cool with the birds and when we won its fun!

how did the bird come back at the end....oh yea good job on the game

so cute :)

Very nice game ^_^;;

I love it how when you get the bean stalk option and you get to fling the bird lol.

Great game!

Very relaxing.

Who needs spoilers?

aww sooo cute

omg lol what a great game!
this game got me through the most boringest adult party ever lol thx

i lovveee when the bird gets twanged out of the way C:

WALKTHROUGH!!!

Coconut, dandilion, coconut, dandilion, tomato (Whatever it is), dandilion [x2], coconut and dandilion [repeat 2 more times], coconut, tomato, coconut, peas, tomato, peas, coconut, peas, tomato, coconut [x2], peas, tomato, coconut, and acorn!

loved it, very sweet and clever,if only more games were like that.

Amazing little game. I hope to Jeff that you make a sequel if there is going to be my Add-ons would be...

More plants to tun into.

And a longer game.

also my regards to Lin for putting the SPOILERS!!!!!!1
But without them i would not have gotten through the game. Thanks. oh and one more thing HI

I thought the game was really cool because it was not just a little 1,2,3 and your done,but you actually had to think!

An amazing little game indeed. I love the graphics. The only thing I could think of that would make it better was some music. But then one wouldn't hear the cute sprout-sounds. So perhaps I take that back. Hehe.

Loved it. Wish I had persevered and not read the spoiler for getting through the desert as I just know I could have worked it out for myself.

would love to see more - same graphics and game style, with different but just as ingenious puzzles

aww cute game lolsh

Lol i wanted to test it lolsh it works :D

brilliant game!
and i managed it without using a walkthrough =]

i'm completely lying i'm rubbish at these so i used a walkthrough for most of it =]

people have already said it but the first time the robin flies to get the berries another copy of him stays there.

i love it when the bird gets twanged into the distance =] i laughed out loud xD

great game xx

I like the end tease of 'coconut'

ab fab great game

Very nice game, affectionate graphics and gameplay despite of very short story. I enjoyed it.

this is a spoiler i guess.... just didn't know why the spoiler thingy wouldn't paste onto here

well anyways. i'm not sure if anyone else stated this yet but theres an easier way then taking a hour taking smacks at the dam, you can just turn into an apple tree outside the farmers house and then when he's done "plantin" you, you can turn into a coconut and roll into the desert~

A very amazing and creative game!!! Lovely paintings and funny gameplay....

It's not an acorn, it's an oak It's not peas, it's a beanstalk

Great fun, if not frustrating ^_^

I love this game it has great graphics and is an original!
;)

Fantastic game! Beautifully animated. Fun play. Great for kids and adults. I just wish it was longer.

Wow. This was spectacular. It deserved to win! So simple and yet with clever and satisfying puzzles that are indeed the nature of Grow! Woo!

Very, very fun. XD It was adorable (I want a sprout!), and pretty graphically, and fun, and it wasn't annoyingly hard, but it wasn't too easy, either. And it definitely made me smile the entire time. ^_^

Very cool. <3

Really really nice game!! :-)

I love it... Didnt know there was a walkthrough though...

Could have saved some time near the desert :-)
But hey its more satisfying to find out by yourself...

EXCELLENT game. I want more.

wow this game was very very well planned and very neat

Cute lil' game, I liked the graphics, nicely done. Is it just me or did it take others about 5 minutes to cross the river, before learning acorn?

how do you get through the desert?

What a cute little game! I wish it was longer.

I loved

catapulting the little bird. Something about his pitiful little squawk as he flew off into the distance made me laugh so hard I almost cried.

Truly delightful! :)

Dude this game was amazing. Games that hook you from the initial. I kept going, come on I want to learn to be more things but you kept just enough of a tease before turning into another thing.

You show great potential for creativity and logic and I hope you'll set it up so you can pump out another game.

Is it just me, or did any body else think,"Ha! Serves that bird (the fat one) right for stealing food from the skinny bird," when it got shot into the distance?
Also, someone mentioned they wanted to know what the moral of the story was. Although I don't think it was meant to be over analyzed, the moral might be finding a place to belong.
Nice game!

wow i love this game - best one i've played in quite a while!

great work jeff xx

lol this game

Rules!

I really want that spoiler thing that is on this page
but all the ones i get dont look as good can anyone help?

PLEASE!

Fun and beautiful! Won on the first go-round!

Wow I really, really suck at point and click games, which this is most reminiscent of, but this I got through without a problem, which was nice, it wasn't annoyingly easy, which was nice, and I burned some time, which was also nice. Probably the most satisfying game I've played in a long time.

That was a most wonderful game!
I do not think that the story had a "moral", but I do think that it is just showing the journey a seed can make, and how many varities can be made (the little group at the end!).

I reckon sequels are definitly in order... or a longer version!

WOW! Great game! Really beautiful!
Make more games!:D

aww! great game
I love games like this one :)

That was a most wonderful game!
I do not think that the story had a "moral", but I do think that it is just showing the journey a seed can make, and how many varities can be made (the little group at the end!).

Loved the colored-pencil style graphics and the soothing sound effects (no annoying background music, yay!).

I don't get why everyone keeps saying it's a pomegranate, though, when it's clearly a blueberry bush. I'm grown both, and birds will not eat all the fruits off a pomegranate, but they'll strip a blueberry bush in minutes.

I don't think anybody made a walkthrough yet, so I guess I'll do it.

1. Coconut

2. Dandelion

3. Coconut

4. Dandelion

5. Fruit

6. Dandelion

7. Dandelion

8. Coconut

9. Dandelion

10. Coconut

11. Dandelion

12. Coconut

13. Dandelion

14. Coconut

15. Fruit

16. Coconut

17. Pod

18. Fruit

20. Pod

21. Coconut

22. Pod

23. Fruit

24. Coconut

25. Coconut

26. Pod

27. Dandelion

28. Coconut

29. Acorn

You win!

I created a video walkthrough for this game,
the link is below

http://youtube.com/view_play_list?p=68E8755DED225B07

THANKS SO MUCH FOR THE DESERT TIPS!!!!!!

Really cool