GROW Cinderella
October 23, 2016 5:32 AM Subscribe
The latest game in a long running series of classics has just been released! No, not that one. Why not spend ten minutes playing the latest GROW game, GROW Cinderella.
YAY! A new GROW game!
BOO! The music. Ye-godz.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:02 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
BOO! The music. Ye-godz.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:02 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Right, I have prepared the usual spreadsheet and tried 11 permutations. Only 709 to go.
One of them will stop that newt stealing my horse I'm sure!
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 6:35 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
One of them will stop that newt stealing my horse I'm sure!
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 6:35 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
grow pls xplain, hope me.
posted by percor at 6:46 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by percor at 6:46 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
grow pls xplain, hope me.
Click on the items at the bottom in the correct order to max out the levels of each one, to see what happens. Super cute.
posted by the webmistress at 7:16 AM on October 23, 2016
Click on the items at the bottom in the correct order to max out the levels of each one, to see what happens. Super cute.
posted by the webmistress at 7:16 AM on October 23, 2016
First three rounds: eh, this is okay but really hard to get the rhythm.
Twelfth round: my life is ruined what why is this SO HARD ARGH
Future rounds: spreadsheet
(This is my first GROW game and...I think I like it? It fills me with good rage?)
posted by kalimac at 7:23 AM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
Twelfth round: my life is ruined what why is this SO HARD ARGH
Future rounds: spreadsheet
(This is my first GROW game and...I think I like it? It fills me with good rage?)
posted by kalimac at 7:23 AM on October 23, 2016 [2 favorites]
is this something i need an android phone for?
posted by and they trembled before her fury at 7:31 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by and they trembled before her fury at 7:31 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
Oh, good. Someone posted the answer in the first 10 comments there. Thanks for continuing to suck, internet.
posted by GhostintheMachine at 7:37 AM on October 23, 2016
posted by GhostintheMachine at 7:37 AM on October 23, 2016
This is the first time I figured out one of these without a walkthrough!
posted by dipping_sauce at 8:59 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by dipping_sauce at 8:59 AM on October 23, 2016 [1 favorite]
OMG, the ending is ADORABLE. Click through the story!
posted by Deoridhe at 3:05 PM on October 23, 2016
posted by Deoridhe at 3:05 PM on October 23, 2016
The grow games usually have hints built in such that you can figure out the correct order of steps without a spreadsheet. For the full, non-mini ones with multiple endings etc, I've never managed it. But this one is absolutely doable based on the information given in the game alone.
posted by Cozybee at 12:10 PM on October 24, 2016
posted by Cozybee at 12:10 PM on October 24, 2016
The grow games usually have hints built in such that you can figure out the correct order of steps without a spreadsheet. For the full, non-mini ones with multiple endings etc, I've never managed it. But this one is absolutely doable based on the information given in the game alone.
It shows you what level everything is at when you fail, so you know that anything that is maxed out is potentially a candidate to go later whereas anything not maxed out should go earlier. That should at least trim some of the work out of a spreadsheet approach.
posted by juv3nal at 5:20 PM on October 24, 2016
It shows you what level everything is at when you fail, so you know that anything that is maxed out is potentially a candidate to go later whereas anything not maxed out should go earlier. That should at least trim some of the work out of a spreadsheet approach.
posted by juv3nal at 5:20 PM on October 24, 2016
It shows you what level everything is at when you fail, so you know that anything that is maxed out is potentially a candidate to go later whereas anything not maxed out should go earlier. That should at least trim some of the work out of a spreadsheet approach.
Well, not exactly, because some things respond to "events" and get a sudden mass of level ups all at once, so that putting them earlier isn't the solution.
But
1. Something that levels up each turn, needs a certain amount of turns to do that in, whereas something that doesn't level up is waiting for a trigger. Also the triggers should be coordinated carefully.
2. Additional specific clues like: If, for example, a wrecking ball keeps breaking your dam before it's ready, maybe don't create the wrecking ball yet (or alternately create it way sooner so it can evolve into something else - it depends)
The mean/lovely thing about these games - so much more intense in the non-mini ones - is that the designer builds in multiple false pathways so that you think you need to trigger one thing when actually, the little person digging the dam is doing so because the optimal dam-digging person hasn't been leveled up yet, etc.
But they're just so incredibly charming.
posted by Cozybee at 9:50 PM on October 24, 2016
Well, not exactly, because some things respond to "events" and get a sudden mass of level ups all at once, so that putting them earlier isn't the solution.
But
1. Something that levels up each turn, needs a certain amount of turns to do that in, whereas something that doesn't level up is waiting for a trigger. Also the triggers should be coordinated carefully.
2. Additional specific clues like: If, for example, a wrecking ball keeps breaking your dam before it's ready, maybe don't create the wrecking ball yet (or alternately create it way sooner so it can evolve into something else - it depends)
The mean/lovely thing about these games - so much more intense in the non-mini ones - is that the designer builds in multiple false pathways so that you think you need to trigger one thing when actually, the little person digging the dam is doing so because the optimal dam-digging person hasn't been leveled up yet, etc.
But they're just so incredibly charming.
posted by Cozybee at 9:50 PM on October 24, 2016
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