Comments on: Secret Garden, relax-em-up browser game http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 10:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: B E Pratt http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1561102 B E Pratt Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:50:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1561102  wine, probably  wine, probably

]]> By: Hannah T http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560657 Hannah T Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560657 It's asking me to install its software. Does that still make it a 'browser' game? It’s asking me to install its software. Does that still make it a ‘browser’ game?

]]> By: kpeort http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560599 kpeort Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560599  just came to the comment section to figure out the same thing myself.  just came to the comment section to figure out the same thing myself.

]]> By: celina192 http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560485 celina192 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:39:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560485 Anyone know how to play this on Linux? Anyone know how to play this on Linux?

]]> By: anankesf http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560463 anankesf Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:04:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560463 Reminds me of Tail of the Sun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_of_the_Sun.  Extremely quirky and somewhat slow, but mesmerizing. I still have a copy :) Reminds me of Tail of the Sun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_of_the_Sun.  Extremely quirky and somewhat slow, but mesmerizing. I still have a copy :)

]]> By: allenmcbride http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560450 allenmcbride Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560450 And yet, much of your description reads like a Zen koan. Especially "The insect status passes through everything." And yet, much of your description reads like a Zen koan. Especially “The insect status passes through everything.”

]]> By: choss http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560417 choss Fri, 19 Oct 2012 17:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560417 I don't think there is anything of substance. It looks to be a concept demo rather than anything else. The same sort of thing you would get with early 90's DIY VR books. A shrub moves a rock but won't move other shrubs the insect status passes through everything the rock moves pretty much everything the buddha statue plows everything down, but if you hit pine trees the behavior is inconsistent. Sometimes it spins you around, or knocks you up abit. If you hit it just the right way, you launch yourself out of the game boundaries, requiring a reset. I don’t think there is anything of substance. It looks to be a concept demo rather than anything else. The same sort of thing you would get with early 90′s DIY VR books.

A shrub moves a rock but won’t move other shrubs

the insect status passes through everything

the rock moves pretty much everything

the buddha statue plows everything down, but if you hit pine trees the behavior is inconsistent.
Sometimes it spins you around, or knocks you up abit. If you hit it just the right way, you launch yourself out of the game boundaries, requiring a reset.

]]> By: Don Langosta http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560327 Don Langosta Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560327 Something about the electric-green grass I find distinctly unrelaxing. Something about the electric-green grass I find distinctly unrelaxing.

]]> By: Vadym Zakrevskyy http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560321 Vadym Zakrevskyy Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560321 stacked bushes travel, and even move other bushes out of the way sometimes. stacked bushes travel, and even move other bushes out of the way sometimes.

]]> By: Rich Keller http://boingboing.net/2012/10/19/secret-garden-relax-em-up-bro.html#comment-1560297 Rich Keller Fri, 19 Oct 2012 16:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=188531#comment-1560297 If you meet the Buddha in the garden, hurl him? If you meet the Buddha in the garden, hurl him?

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