great!!!!
thanks for adding it, jay!

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been waiting for a new grow game for a long time!

No review?

I have a love-love-love-dislike relationship with Grow games. I love love love them but I dislike how it's pretty much just trial and error to figure out the correct order. But how I love them...

Review is forthcoming. Didn't want to hold up posting it. Besides, it's a Grow game, what more can we say that we haven't said already about these games?

Yes, it is a bit of trial and error, but as usual with On's games, the error can be as delightful as the winning. ;)

This made my day. I love On's games.

my best so far is all maxed except logs and miner. harded.

whoot! new grow game go! nice diversion from the (still) perplexing banner game

Yay I cant wait to play it! I love Grow Games ;D

wow

So cool, yet so hard. I've been at it for 30 minutes and am so close! ARGHHHH!

is this solvable? because i think i am close but when i do the order that seems right the game just stops after i click all the panels...it won't tell me what level they got to. am i bound to ponder this endlessly??

I'm a little disappointed, but it seems that the game still has some glitches.

A small graphical glitch is that when you reset the game:

But what's worse, it seems that some combinations do not let you get to the "status screen" where each grow tile is rated on what level it reached.
One that I have found is:

The animations and music just continue endlessly :(

I'm not so good at the trial and error Grow games, but even my failures are entertaining. I just can't get my brain around which order to go.

I eagerly await the spoilers! :)

@chappy: I got to that point, too. It looks very promising and could well be (one of) the correct solution(s).

Maybe Jay can ask On to have a look?

Oh totally, I like losing from time to time...
However I am with UB. I want some spoilers here! :)

Urgh after 2 hours of trying i still cant get it. I can get the battery the car and the robot to MAX but URGH help me please?!!? Email me if you don't want to post spoilers

Also, I successfully maxed out everything but Civil Engineering and Applied Science (the pickaxe and the little beaker thing). I think there are more things to select once you get those, if you hit the little arrow in the upper right hand corner after (probably) losing.

Frustrating but sooo entertaining.

and now i post that i solved it on the fourth try! that is by far the fastest i have EVER solved a grow game :) great and cute animations, yet again. a hit, as to be expected. thanks for posting this jay :D

There is a neat little glitch involving that treasure in the upper left corner...

First grow game I've finished on my own! Quite a satisfying and fun game.

There is an ending with a "Congratulations!!" message and all tiles are maxed. But I'm not sure it's the only ending because I feel like some of the drawings On made still haven't been used, and there is nothing special besides the message. I'm used to seeing a whole animation sequence start up when you win. Not to mention the

Ah well, I will not give up yet. More combinations to try!

Am I the only person who is revolted when the lava creature comes out and stuff comes out of its ear?

I can never beat these things.

Bring on the spoilers!

I got all except the minder and the logs. But it looked like it should've been the correct solution.

Does anyone actually have a completely correct solution

I managed to max everything out on my second try. Not bad.

I hope I didn't mess that up.

SPOILER ALERT!!

I see some of you asking for spoilers, so here's the order I used to solve the game.

I solved it after much trial and error, but I was a little disappointed, only because I had hoped the additional icons would come into play once you got the first eight icons in the proper order.

If you click the small red triangle in the upper right corner, you can see additional icons for System/C Engineering, Materials Engineering, Communication Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Image Technology/Acoustic Engineering, and Applied Physics.

Anyone know what these are for?

Darn, beaten to the walkthrough!

Cute ending though.

Ahh, thank you chibidani, I had 2 things out of order, right next to each other. That's a satisfying ending. I'm still a bit confused about the other little boxes at the very end though.
Still, a masterful game. Thank you once again On!

Guess, I'm the first to post FINISHED! The animals at the end are a nice touch.

I think i may have found the right combo

Unfortunately as Sethum noted, this is one of the combos that locks up before it finished.
I love the themed aspect of this game. It makes the trial and error process toward a solution much less arbitrary, and therefore much more streamlined imho. On fails to dissapoint...or succeeds to please...or a combination of the two.

The boxes through the red arrow at the end are just speaking about other fields of study in University. If you toggle english and japanese a few times, the language will correct itself to some broken english where it makes sense.

Got it! Here's a walkthrough:

To those who are confused about the other buttons: it appears this game was sponsored by Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo. The other buttons, as well as the ones in the game, are all course descriptions. It's a pretty neat way to advertise the school!

I maxed everything out with this:

Doing this instead:

made civil only reach level 3, BUT the potion turned into a strange brown thing, and instead of saying "Lv.MAX" it said "Lv.UFO"
Any idea if it's possible to max out everything AND get the UFO? I'll keep trying :)

I don't know Japanese but I believe the

is not for game play but simply to explain the available courses at the Shibaura Institute of Technology, who On made the game for.
Also On, from his Eyezmaze site, asks players to "please find some amusement in it and try to find that there may be hidden ending or not."
The only ending I've found displays:

The way to get this ended is:

Alternatively, one of the many dead ends does have a different "flavor":

But I haven't seen anything special beyond that.

To read the Japanese in the pop-up box, click the arrow, click the Japanese text in the lower left-hand corner, and click on "English". It worked for me.

The Eyemaze website hints that there may be a hidden ending...

I know what text at the end of the game says thats in japanesse or what ever it is

Man, my brain is in knots. If I get the man and woman to fall in love, then the road doesn't get paved...that beaker seems to break no matter what I do...the forest gets chopped down if I don't mix in enviromental enginerring early...

Brandinat0r: Your solution causes a volcanic disaster and deforestation. Try again.

aaargh. I like Grow games as much as the next person, but when the loading of the game takes 5 minutes to get from 11% to 12% I don't think I'll manage to stay awake long enough to play it >_>

On the red arrow, for English simply press the Japanese(?) button and then press the English button again for the English to appear.

It merely contains a longer explanation of the purpose of the game and buttons on various areas of engineering.

I love the character logic in this game. "I have no convenient way to dispose of this trash bag! AARGH! I'm gonna chop down a forest and destroy the internet!"

Absolutely phenomenal! The logic behind each discipline makes the trial-and-error aspect much less cumbersome, and all the animation is beautiful. A feature that I would like to see on these games is the ability to preselect the order of the items, and then just press a run button, so you can watch everything unfold at once.

These games are wonderfully fun for young and old alike. Love that I can play and send the link to my nieces to play as well. They love the ON series.

Found another glitch. With only

left, when the

, you can't select the last box, but nothing else happens either.

aanh! so cute! best one yet. i <3 grow!!

T'was awight

A bit alternative ending and one more bug:

i've always loved the Grow series, and this one doesn't change my mind one bit. Thanks for adding it, Jay!

hahaha
I love how in the end, computers and chemistry create life

Awwww! It was over too quickly! :(
It seems like I've been waiting forever for a new GROW game. They are just so flippin' delightful! :D

Oh golly I don't normally like video game music but this final song is so addictive.
Best parts of the latest Grow:
--the little romance between the architect and the engineer
--Mr. Volcano (of course that's what a volcano looks like!)
--the lil' mecha sequences

Best of internet, without a doubt.

Wow... beat it on my third try! I've never beaten a Grow so fast! However, there was a definite logic to this one--it does make a kind of "real world" sense, the order the items go in.

I didn't get the alien, though. :(

The little alien is a play on the "little prince" .. a french story of a boy who lives on a desolate planet, and his adventures on it. They made a cartoon of it. Maybe it was "le little prince" or something.. it's been years since I've seen it. But that's what the little alien on the planet is a reference to.

I just love the ending music! I know what I'll be singing tomorrow! *Hums tune* LOL!

Another great Grow game - thanks so much for posting this one!

Yet another fantastic Grow game with an all new concept. I finished this one quite speedily, only taking 3 or 4 tries, cant recall. But still a thrill to play.

However, I dont understand one thing, what it the point of the volcano bunny pouring lava(?) down the cliff?

awww!
I wish I could come up with neat original ideas like that!

@Teonis

The "volcano bunny" pours lava, but

Yay, I actually managed to solve it on my own! thats a first for me and grow games! (apart from that mini grow game) :D Thanks Jay!

Dear Flash authors,
please keep those of us on alternative, minority, disenfranchised, browsers and platforms in mind when you design your most excellent games. On Firefox on Linux using Adobe Flash Player 9, the English text takes up too much width and is partially unreadable due to being off the right edge of the text box. This is for the rollover explanations of each tile.

Le Petite Prince is fabulous!

He's STILL all over in Paris, all these years after the book was written. Quite a delightful childrens story, I'd reccomend reading it sometime no matter what age you are.

The little man is the little man from Grow RPG.
And the propeller is from Grow 1.

They are in the exact same positions they're in on their respective games.

After playing through this game a few times and trying out the different combinations on the discussion here, I have to honestly say that I am impressed and disappointed at the same time. On one hand, it's a new Grow game and it tells an interesting story. On the other hand, the ending is contrived. Even though by checking different combinations, it seems that there SHOULD be multiple ways to reach the ending, the game does not permit it to occur unless you enter the EXACT combination they decided on in the first place. Note that these combinations differ from each other very slightly in the middle of the game, but follow the exact same pattern on the last two. Because the results are the same before these last two, there is no excuse for only letting one combination succeed ex post facto.

Ive found a way to read the Japanese click on the Japanese letters in the lower left corner then the English "AT THE END" to see the second row of boxes, and what are the boxes useful for a part.2???

when you finish the game click on the little arrow at the top. it will show up with a screen full of japanese. click the button at the bottom which is next to the english button. then press the english button and the writing turns into engish

Sadly, I had to use spoilers to finish the game.

Now for the game. I experienced glitches (bugs), mainly that of the pink robot not constructing the road, forcing me to restart. But for those who are frustrated with this, please understand that it is not in the least bit easy to create a game with 40,320 possible combinations and expect no bugs at all.

Why couldn't I finish the game? I got it correct, but placed the

Otherwise, it maintains its high standard of cute graphics, hilarious wrong results

, and its polished interface.

I think I know how do get an alternative ending, (well, the theory anyway)
You can get the potion to "UFO up", and you can sometimes get a UFO to fly down at the end, so I think If you do both at once the the UFO lands or something and then theres an alternative ending.
Anyone think so too?

How do you get the UFO to fly around? I've gotten the

but that's all...

This comb makes a ship appear, but only at the end.

sometimes yo see the UFO on the bottom of the planet when
A)

B)

When the ship comes down

Update your walkthrough here because I'm proud to present the ALTERNATIVE ENDING (and it was very hard to find):

Congratu-ALIEN-s

Great work Danaroth! Loved that ending even more than the congratulations one! Thanks for posting it!

I love how hyper the little guy gets when he sees the other person. <3

A million tnkx Danaroth! Freeeaaakyyy!!!!!!

"Alternatively, one of the many dead ends does have a different "flavor":
If you let the family grow without building the Chimney (Environmental Engineering)...
the father will turn evil and chop down the trees, which lets the lava cover the road, and then the mother will turn evil, and the father will send a computer virus to the computer." How do you get that? I wanna know.

"Without a doubt On's greatest work-to-date"? Here, I have a doubt for you: there's no way this is On's best game. Chronon was more innovative and had a better story, Dwarf Complete was less dependent on luck, Tontie was more devious in its design, and personally I enjoyed the other Grow games more, though I can't put my finger on why.

i agree with sidney, although this game is nice too. i got the solution on my 5th try. i personally liked chronon better, but it could be just me.

I hope On fixed the 'ending' for placing the battery before the enviromental (as the latter is only needed just before the dad comes out of the house again)

Mainly because this was the only good solution I found by myself *rolleyes*

TheNeverFortuneSeeker - you simply just do it like the walkthrough says, but select the chimney as the last. Then the man will send a computer virus.

Haha...Got the first solution, the second one is really interesting!

I wonder if there are more for the other grow games

I agree with Nathanyel. This can be counted as one of the best of Grow series (but I enjoyed Grow RPG more), but Chronon and Drawf Complete were better in terms of puzzle solving and fun aspect.

Thanks so much, Danaroth - I liked that even better than the "correct" ending!

yay I got it in 6 tries i guess~ very cute!

Oh, you're welcome; just happy to have helped you all (and solved the mistery around On's words when he posted this game) ^.^ Actually I was pretty surprised to be the first one posting the solution (even if only a secondary one) of a game that is part of a very well-known series as Grow is, since generally people here are so fast. My efforts were very rewarding this time *.*
About the quality of this game compared to other On's games: I also think this isn't his best game so far (I think CUBE is an unarrivable masterpiece and I also enjoyed Galves' adventure more) expecially because the cause-effect relationship isn't so clear compared to the other GROWs; however I'm relieved he didn't use anymore that horrible format showed in Grow ver.1 and I think it's awesome that he 's always adding bonuses in his last works.

I don't get it!!! Is there a bug??? I think I am about to complete it but then it just stops! For instance:

woah
what a goooden of a game
thanks for the spoilers mateys (Y)
woahhhhhhhhh

I love the Grow series so much and every time a new one comes out it's time to play the old ones again. Usually I remember some of the steps but I’ve forgotten enough to make them fun again. Chronon is my favorite so far. I think my love for them stems from my days playing the old Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry games on an old Tandy.

I love the grow series!

Amazingly, I got 5 Max levels on the first go, pretty good guesses ! and then I solved it in only 2 more attempts. I have NEVER done one that fast before. I used

I am now going to try one of the alternative endings.

Keep them coming please On, they are fun to play and beautiful to watch, thank you!

please post the solution(s) here. we´ve tried many combinations but it didn´t work at all. best was 6 at maximum, but we´ve never made it to finnish the game.
how is the exact order to finish this really nice amusement?

[Edit: Try the walkthrough above. -Jay]

I love the grow series!

Amazingly, I got 5 Max levels on the first go, pretty good guesses ! and then I solved it in only 2 more attempts. I have NEVER done one that fast before. I used

I am now going to try one of the alternative endings.

Keep them coming please On, they are fun to play and beautiful to watch, thank you!

that was the funest one yet (grow island)

i have heard that there is another extra ending...

[Edit: There is an alternate ending. Check the walkthroughs above for both known complete solutions. -Jay]

i need help to understand how to get on the website with all the grow games but i know how to get the UFO ending and normal ending.

[Edit: All the Grow games are listed here. -Jay]

Can someone tell me how i can finish the game?

can someone help me to finish the game?

[Edit: All the help you need is in the "walkthrough" section above. -Jay]

Neat. Not as good as the other ones, though... It really made no sense, making it almost excessively hard.

great game!!!
it took me forever to beat it
but it was fun!!!
cya

this is osm! thanks for the walkthrough, everyone!

Oh my goodness loved the alternative ending...

i liked both endings although the regular one was disappointing with the same old congratulations at the top.

i loved the walkthrough, it showed me what i was doing wrong, i was putting the man first...

sincerley,
Morgan350z

Woah, this is amazing work of art!

i did it but... i cheated>_< hahahaha

I love these games. Im such a big fan of the eyezmaze website... too bad the extra icons at the end has no other funcitons

This is a spoiler:

And this is the normal one

haha at the alternative ending!!

There is another dead end ending.

rofl my favourite bit has got to be where he meets the woman. It was so sweet! Especially the kid!
And the aliens version was hilarious!
TY v. much for showing us how to get to it, Danaroth.

this is the real way to win

ok thats is it for everything
bye
p.s. this is emma

cool game!!

the family lived happily ever after

koh snap the alien thing freaked me out. how does that work?

The UFO Civil! alternate ending!!!

Heres another alternate ending, i guess,founded by me, a 12 year old :D

Hey!?I tried the alternate ending yipee aliens great, but why didn't chemistry get alienated?!That would've been awesome!And where did the human family go?!

maxed out both endings in 2 trys great game make more

OO I don't know maybe am no smart for this game.....I play it day and night but I can win it....

This game is so cool. :)

I love it!!!!!!

this is awesome I beat it 2 times

way to max every thing and get the ufo

I swaped the steering wheel and the Smoke stack and it came the same resault.

see some of you asking for spoilers, so here's the order I used to solve the game.

Mechanical (Bolt)
Civil (Pickaxe)
Architectural (Logs)
Aeronautical, etc (Steering Wheel)
Electrical (Battery)
Computer (Chip)
Chemical (Beaker)
Environmental (Smoke Stack

try this the father will be very bad and youll see he will put a virus on the comp...

what game site can i play the grow games on ive looked everywhere i know

[Edit: look no further than JIG:

http://jayisgames.com/tag/grow

-Jay]

i know now 1. screw 2.civil 3. arhitectural 4. aronautical 5. enviromental 6. electrical 7.computer 8.chemical

its really fun

Awesome game. I hope he updates it and puts in those engineering buttons and the physics one. Watch the little man talk on a cell phone or something. :P

I love the alien ending but, is there a way to get alien with human stuff?

ok now the UFO end was kind of wierd... P

this is amazing! i like it so much. i like the house and the electrical bit! Also the sound but it can get a bit annoying. This is how i eventually completed the game...

very fun. this is the order i used:

what is the alien ending? =(

is there any other grow games

Just click on the grow tag under the title of any of the Grow games for a listing of them all. You'll even find some games that were inspired by the Grow games.

i have found how to get evil dad to send virus first do wheel, pike ax, logs, bolt, batterie, computer chip, chesty, envirment. and thats how you do it

I think the alternate ending kind of shows us what happens if we prioritize things incorrectly (say putting the environment last while thinking about profitability first). Though maybe that's just my read.

Here is the order to beat the game

Do you want to kill the little man? If so, this is the order for you:

it was good but has any one got a different ending ecept congratualiens

The man goes berserk if you crap things up for the environment. Is it that he can't incinerate his trash? What about composting?? Here's the way I got to it:

awwwee! i followed Kevin's set-up, and watched as the little guy died of a broken heart.

everything else goes on around him, but he just lays there... probably the saddest ending EVER.

poor little tiny-nonexistent-yellow-guy-that-everyone-pretty-much-loves!

I visited eyezmaze yesterday and I found good news: A new game is being made! ( i'm not sure if it's a grow game)

can anyone get a maxed level end of the world?
with computer virus, smashed house, lava-ed car...

Want to know the 2 ways?

I always love Grow Series so much!!!

You can kill the Miner guy;

Axe
Chimney
Battery
Bolt
Logs

The miner will rush over to the woman and then he falls over and dies because he has no flowers :p.

Can someone please post the links to all the swf files for the grow games? My internet sucks so I need to download the games. Oh, and also post the Chronon swf file.

I did what vargo said, and what do i do with the other icons?

Ahh! i killed the little man!

Much love for the alternate alien ending! That's way cool!

I cant get to it anymore.... Agh!

how come there are sheep in theh pyramid in the picture? i didn't get that in my alternative ending...

As far as I know it's impossible to get the sheep in the structure. it was probably just computerized in or something.

nice, best grow game ever

I've noticed that the hosting has changed somewhat(looks like it's part of a JIG page now) and the game is squished into too small a space (buttons are truncated and the screen is clipped). just FYI...

[Edit: We started hosting a version of it during a period in which the game was unavailable at the university for which On created it. Now that it's back, I have reverted the links back to the university. Cheers! -Jay]

rhank you so much chibidani!

i meant thanks. not rhanks...hey autumn r u carter? i'm Ping.

The ending is just so happy.

the awnser is

I noticed when you beat the game, theres a small red triangle at the top. you click on it and it shows more things you could use. how the hell can i use those??

Level UFO for everything is AWESOME!

Hey guys,they should make grow island 2.0 , where you can use those other buttons you find after clicking the red arrow!!That would be AWESOME!!!

did anyone ever notice that the whales have the same smiles as the boy in grow nano 2?

I would like 2 b the little man...but i cant :-C

I pressed them randomly, and the man(civil,pick)crashed the computer(chip)

hi people i feel sad cause you told us how to kill the little man yet we all love him :(

how do eyemaze do things like that? because I want to do things like that.

that was so much fun!!!!! hee hee

this is defenantly the best 1 yet thank you

I love the alternate ending!!!

walktrough: first, click mechanical engineering, then, civil engineering. After that, choose Architecture,Auroneoutic marine automative,Enviromental enggineering. Next,Electrical Energy, then pick computer science and the last pick applied chemistry...

Gud luck...
Hope u guyz can win.

I think the last part was interesting...

Is there a different "version" of this game where you can see the moon throughout the whole game? Because if you do specific combinations, you can see stuff moving up there like a whole different grow game.

The order is:Machinery, Man, House Vehicle, Garbage, Battery, Technology, and Chemistry. Your welcome! -Kayla

When i click on the link to play the page says its not available or something (thanks to Google translator) is it just my comp or is the page down for now?

Hi!! I love the grow series, but every time I tryto play this one it takes me to a site that is all Chinese writing. No pictures come up. So, can you provide a link to the American version?

The links above should be fixed now. Apparently the game was moved.

Thank you so much EVERYONE for all your walkthroughs...my fave was the alien! This is my faveourite game...so far!

best alt ending ever!

LMAO the secret ending!!!! XD
too cute lol

Hey, what happened to

after the

he went back in the house to

I tried that but I did chemistry bs computer chip and it took me 10 minutes until I tried to search for a walkthrough to this.

Do the normal way to win, but put the wheel first and the ufo will come down and dance across the screen.

I tried the alternate ending but it wasn't the alternate ending! Only the pickaxe was the one that was ufo lvl please tell me the real way!!

great game :]

But how did you do all to 'UFO' ?
(Omg, my englisch is terrible...)

Awww this game is so adorable, I love grow games!! It's so sweet, I've ended up playing this again and again!!! ^_^

game is pretty interesting but a little frustrating. There are definite rules about the relationship between the different technologies, but they don't bother tell us what the rules are. It seems that all Grow games would be winnable by creating a formula that would determine how long each technology arrived at max and simply ensure that all tecnologies reach the max by the predetermined end of game rounds

this was awesome and i beat it at least 20 times these games are addicting MAKE MORE!

this is the normal ending

the alternitive ending is so cool
here it is

Is there actually any use for the extra icons that apear at the end. Grow Island 2 perhaps?

Why do the man and woman turn gray when taking out the trash?

Because they're the trash

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