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Flow in Games

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15:41 / 02.03.07

http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

Anyone try this out? Saw it got plugged as one of the top ten indie games in Wired the other day. Tried it out and instantly became infatuated with it. It's a flash game - lovingly crafted at that. You start out as a sort of small multicellular waterliving organism and proceed to work your way up the evolutionary scale by eating floating bits of food and other critters. Nice way to waste time. Free too.

Princess

21:51 / 02.03.07

I like it. Although the controls are a bit dicky when you have to use the laptops mouse pad thing.

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07:57 / 03.03.07

Yeah I can imagine. In fact I could try it myself right here and now, but I've dedicated this game to time-wasting at work. Plus there I have a proper mouse...

My arm hurts!

New version of flOw will most likely be for PS3.

trailers here

w1rebaby

18:51 / 06.03.07

Flow for the DS would be absolutely terrific.

I managed to seriously screw my brain up playing it at work today. I want to know what happens when you evolve past the second lifeform.

Princess

13:27 / 07.03.07

I have killed literally everything on the second level, I'm as big as Chicago, so why won't I evolve?

How much do I have to kill to grow another leg?

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13:36 / 07.03.07

I'm not sure, Princess, but I think that's how far it goes atm. I'd love to be one of those jellyfish.

15:34 / 07.03.07

I can't eat the jellyfish, they keep eating me back. I don't want there to be conflict or challenge in this game... just endless eating and growing. It's so relaxing as long as I'm not also trying to run from something.

I wonder if this game is triggering for some folks with eating disorders.

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15:45 / 07.03.07

Waddya mean you can't eat the jellyfish? Go for the blobs in their outer circle dood. I was about to write outer church there. Gotta stop reading 4-5 issues of Invis ere bed...

Triplets

17:01 / 07.03.07

You can eat everything in this game. That's the point. Don't try and eat the radioactive-symbol jellyfish brains, eat the blobs on the outside. Tuck in!

Princess

19:04 / 07.03.07

That's not a brain.

It's a mouth. A large pointed mouth. For killing with.

And no matter how much I kill my mouth will not chang shape!

w1rebaby

20:04 / 07.03.07

I was looking forward to evolving into one of those viciously fast kite-shaped things. I don't really have the time to do that at work though.

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