# Trying to find this online game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 4, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853 "2007-12-04T23:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/1 "2007-12-04T23:19:37Z")
It was posted in here a while back, I can’t find it in my subscribed threads but I’m sure I posted to the subject. Its one of a series of games, sort of off beat puzzle games, this particular one had you in control of an island, where you could have the inhabitants study scientific and engineering disciplines. According to how you chose to devote time to study of these subjects, your island would flourish in varying ways. Any ideas? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/2 "2007-12-04T23:27:46Z")
[Grow Island](http://shingakunet.com/special/10054301/0285/index.html) by [Eyezmaze](http://www.eyezmaze.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/3 "2007-12-04T23:29:24Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] It was posted in here a while back, I can’t find it in my subscribed threads but I’m sure I posted to the subject. Its one of a series of games, sort of off beat puzzle games, this particular one had you in control of an island, where you could have the inhabitants study scientific and engineering disciplines. According to how you chose to devote time to study of these subjects, your island would flourish in varying ways. Any ideas? 😕 [/QUOTE] Is [this](http://shingakunet.com/special/10054301/0285/) it? ETA: Beat to the punch once again… ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/4 "2007-12-04T23:57:05Z")
Yes, Grow Island, thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Omi\_no\_Kami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a88e4f/32.png) [@Omi\_no\_Kami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omi_no_Kami)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/5 "2007-12-05T03:54:33Z")
While we’re on the topic, I’m curious: is there an actual methodology behind that game? Or is it just a matter of experimenting until you find some neat progressions? ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/6 "2007-12-05T05:44:11Z")
You can sort of see which ones gotta go early and which ones you can choose late. For example, if you choose Civil Engineering, and at the end of the game it gets to level 6 and still hasn’t maxed out, you know you gotta choose it pretty early. Similarly, if you keep an eye on them, you can see that some of them max out after only a couple levels. These, obviously, need to be built later in the game. I still run through a whole lotta trial and error doing it this way. In fact, I usually just look up the solution because I can’t stands it no more not knowing what the end result looks like. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/7 "2007-12-05T09:05:09Z")
Reading up after failing to max out all the levels, it appears you can’t max them all, unless I’m missing a walkthrough. There’s supposedly a link between the technologies, like chemistry and electricity adding together to make fuel cells for the little car. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/8 "2007-12-05T11:06:54Z")
[QUOTE=Pushkin] Reading up after failing to max out all the levels, it appears you can’t max them all, unless I’m missing a walkthrough. There’s supposedly a link between the technologies, like chemistry and electricity adding together to make fuel cells for the little car. [/QUOTE] Just had my best attempt, maxed everything except civil engineering, which had only achieved level 3 ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/9 "2007-12-05T11:33:13Z")
Yeah, you can max all the levels… ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/10 "2007-12-05T14:55:26Z")
Care to post a spoilered walkthrough? I can never get the chemistry set to level up. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/11 "2007-12-05T15:28:26Z")
Here you are. The sequence is Mechanical Civil Architecture Automotive Environmental Electrical Computer Chemistry Chemistry has to be last, or it gets destroyed by the volcano ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/12 "2007-12-05T18:26:41Z")
Don’t forget the alternate ending: 1. ``` Automotive ``` 2. ``` Civil ``` 3. ``` Architecture ``` 4. ``` Computer ``` 5. ``` Electrical ``` 6. ``` Mechanical ``` 7. ``` Chemical ``` 8. ``` Environmental ``` ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-to-find-this-online-game/428853/13 "2007-12-05T22:27:29Z")
I seem to have lucked into maxing them all out on my 3rd or 4th try. The animation is cute. ETA: OK, the UFO ending is way cooler.