Feed the Head: Give it some time, you'll figure it out.

Recoil42

Ran into this neat little game today.

http://www.feedthehead.net/

I won't say much else, just really neat, give it a try.


For after you're done playing:

Spoiler:

Reminds me of Grow, but without the stupid entirety-of-the-gameplay-rests-on-experimentation-and-more-experimentation thing.

But aside from that, I thought it was a fantastic games-as-art exhibition, and the one thing that really drew me was the eventual laborious complexity of the character, how some of the most minimal elements of the game (like the elephant nose) had the most impressive programming behind them, and how every single sphere had an effect, and they stacked. At the end of the game, the first sphere you tried's effect still worked, you know? And yet you had no idea there would be so much, because when you started, it looked so minimalist.

It was cute, too. Very imaginative. As one redditor said:
http://reddit.com/info/6fiuh/comments/c03p68n

Sueve

Post your OP in the Indie game thread later,

and yes

this is the best thing ever.

I love the

Spoiler:

racing

RainbowDespair

Wow, that was surprisingly cool.

If you need help, there's a walkthrough on this page: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2007/04/feed_the_head.php

Regicid3

Am . . . am I supposed to beat this?

Regicid3

I want to get the damn eyeball inside from the top of his head but it doesn't want to happen.

Recoil42

Regicid3 wrote: »

I want to get the damn eyeball inside from the top of his head but it doesn't want to happen.

Spoiler:

you can feed it back to him. the use of the door in the top of his head will become apparent later.

hint: try tapping on his forehead, and yanking his nose. that will get you started

and yes, there is an 'end'.

Drovek

That was certainly cool and ... interesting.

Peewi

This certainly was umm... unique, I guess.

LewieP

I don't like it.


What is wrong with it?


I don't like it.

Turkey

Can I make it smile? It looks way too creepy.

JRosey

Wow... that was one of the most amazing gaming experiences I've ever had...

I had this dumb smile slapped across my face the entire time. The end was... beautiful.

Ashendark

I beat it. Then it reset back to the first stage so the madness loops to infinity, ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Kinda nifty though.

Regicid3

I love the elephant nose.

Regicid3

Captain K

love

this



Thanks for posting this. A+++ would click on thread again

urahonky

Maybe I'm out of touch... But I thought the game was a waste of my 5 minutes. This is why I try and steer away from the indie thread, because if something like this is hailed as amazing... I can't imagine the "okay" games in there.

But that's just me though.

LewieP

I think it scares me.


Yes.

It scares me.

Food

Cool game. It reminds me of the Grow games, but better. I like.

Raiden333

I love it when I can figure this stuff out without a walkthrough.

Recoil42

urahonky wrote: »

Maybe I'm out of touch... But I thought the game was a waste of my 5 minutes. This is why I try and steer away from the indie thread, because if something like this is hailed as amazing... I can't imagine the "okay" games in there.

But that's just me though.

If you only spent five minutes on it, you probably didn't figure anything out. You barely even scratched the surface.


***SPOILERS***
Get to the part where you have a full head of hair, a propeller for a nose, six animal feet coming out of the top of you head all playing catch with each other (with beach balls) while the head is jumping hurdles, and you've discovered the other guy inside of you, that has a bird inside of him, that has an alien inside of it, that has a keeps a planet with him, on which lives a worm, and they're all kinda tired, and then we'll talk.
***SPOILERS***

I put it right in the thread title, dude. You gotta give it some time and figure it out.

Raslin

It just wasn't for me

urahonky

Recoil42 wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Maybe I'm out of touch... But I thought the game was a waste of my 5 minutes. This is why I try and steer away from the indie thread, because if something like this is hailed as amazing... I can't imagine the "okay" games in there.

But that's just me though.

If you only spent five minutes on it, you didn't figure anything out. You barely even scratched the surface.

I got to a point where:

Spoiler:

Some elephant nose was grabbing the balls I put in there, and then I opened up the head and had some hand come out of the ear and hold the string, and I started throwing balls up there and they were kicking them.

Yeah... If that's artsy, I'm glad I'm not a part of that.

darleysam

Well put me on the side of "enjoyed it".

Gorilla Salad

Did...Did I win?

Fallout

urahonky wrote: »

Recoil42 wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Maybe I'm out of touch... But I thought the game was a waste of my 5 minutes. This is why I try and steer away from the indie thread, because if something like this is hailed as amazing... I can't imagine the "okay" games in there.

But that's just me though.

If you only spent five minutes on it, you didn't figure anything out. You barely even scratched the surface.

I got to a point where:

Spoiler:

Some elephant nose was grabbing the balls I put in there, and then I opened up the head and had some hand come out of the ear and hold the string, and I started throwing balls up there and they were kicking them.

Yeah... If that's artsy, I'm glad I'm not a part of that.

are you scared of weird things or something

Fallout

Captain K wrote: »

love

this



Thanks for posting this. A+++ would click on thread again

seriously

this game fuckin' rules

Raslin

Fallout wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Recoil42 wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Maybe I'm out of touch... But I thought the game was a waste of my 5 minutes. This is why I try and steer away from the indie thread, because if something like this is hailed as amazing... I can't imagine the "okay" games in there.

But that's just me though.

If you only spent five minutes on it, you didn't figure anything out. You barely even scratched the surface.

I got to a point where:

Spoiler:

Some elephant nose was grabbing the balls I put in there, and then I opened up the head and had some hand come out of the ear and hold the string, and I started throwing balls up there and they were kicking them.

Yeah... If that's artsy, I'm glad I'm not a part of that.

are you scared of weird things or something

Sir,

I'm going to have to ask you not engage in normal human behavior. Watch yourself in the future.

Regicid3

Wait, the hand can hold the string? I didn't even think of that.

Regicid3

Hahaha, his brain is kicking like four balls. Hahaha.

urahonky

Fallout wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Recoil42 wrote: »

urahonky wrote: »

Maybe I'm out of touch... But I thought the game was a waste of my 5 minutes. This is why I try and steer away from the indie thread, because if something like this is hailed as amazing... I can't imagine the "okay" games in there.

But that's just me though.

If you only spent five minutes on it, you didn't figure anything out. You barely even scratched the surface.

I got to a point where:

Spoiler:

Some elephant nose was grabbing the balls I put in there, and then I opened up the head and had some hand come out of the ear and hold the string, and I started throwing balls up there and they were kicking them.

Yeah... If that's artsy, I'm glad I'm not a part of that.

are you scared of weird things or something

Okay, so because it's weird that means its awesome? Bah. Nevermind. I'll leave now before I turn this thread into something I don't want to do.

Fuga

Yay, I got to the end.. or the start.. whatever, with out using a walkthrough! This is even a bigger accomplishment than finishing "You have to burn the rope".

Raiden333

Regicid3 wrote: »

Hahaha, his brain is kicking like four balls. Hahaha.

Including his eye, right? That's the real comedy.

Raslin

Fuga wrote: »

Yay, I got to the end.. or the start.. whatever, with out using a walkthrough! This is even a bigger accomplishment than finishing "You have to burn the rope".

Woah, Woah, don't be saying things you can't take back

LewieP

You have to feed the head.

Regicid3

Well . . . I beat it. Haha, what the fuck. I ran . . . well, I don't want to ruin it for anybody so you should all just finish it.

Zombiemambo

I think I finished it. It just starts over, right?

Dusda

I'm at the part with

Spoiler:

the fish tank. I fed them and saw a red ball appear but then it went away. What now?

Regicid3

Zombiemambo wrote: »

I think I finished it. It just starts over, right?

You made the birds and it restarted, that's the end . . .

Uncle_Balsamic

That was great!

Uncle_Balsamic

Regicid3 wrote: »

Pictures

Spoiler:

I never got the hair

Regicid3

You need to hit the forehead, watch the movie and grab the green ball and fed it to him. Keep cutting off the hair until all of it appears.