If you've only just found us recently, then you may not know that we've been here a long time. Well over 3 years long, and we've featured and reviewed nearly 1500 games in that length of time. So you can imagine my surprise whenever a game we featured a long time ago gets a resurgence of attention, all of a sudden. It happened recently with the infectiously addictive, Nanaca Crash, and just this week we have seen a large influx of traffic to Levers, a wonderfully relaxing web toy created by Vector Park. Levers is a beautiful game that balances art and interactivity very nicely.
While reliving the experience again after all this time, I noticed a link in the bottom right corner to something I hadn't seen before, and so I decided to take a look. Could this be something new from them?
Although I am uncertain of its origin or release date, Feed the Head does represent a piece of interactive entertainment of a type we don't often see anymore. In this age of the rise of the Flash game as a mainstream commercial commodity, it seems that the talented people who previously spent their waking hours and days creating compelling artistic endeavors such as this, are now busy churning out the daily feature at Newgrounds, Miniclip or an advergame for the latest chewing gum. My, how things change.
So it gives me great pleasure to be able to share with you a little something the archives here are filled with if you take some time to look for them. There is perhaps no goal, no win condition. It's just plain fun to play. A piece of interactive art for you to discover on your own terms. Spend a couple minutes or an hour. Lose yourself. Feed your head. Escape.
Update: Now NEW and IMPROVED with new things to discover!
Walkthrough Guide
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THIS IS M WALKTHROUGH FOR THE UPDATED VERSION!
1.Basics
Eye - Roll over to make him cry, or click to make his eye come out his mouth. (to get the eye back, just feed it to him)
Ear - At the moment it just makes him yawn, but this will change later.
Top of Head - Roll over and a hair comes out, pull the hair to make the top swing off. (It will be empty at first)
2.The Forehead
The Movie - Knock on his forehead three times and a movie projector will pop out. You can take the reel off, but there's no point. Click it to show a video of a box.
The Box - Open the box and three orbs will come out and bouce around. Each one does a different thing when you feed it to him.
ORANGE makes him breathe fire. Also when you pull his ear now, it makes him breathe fire. (It doesn't do anything but it's fun nonetheless!)
GREEN makes hair srout up all over the place. Roll over the hair to cut it off.
PURPLE makes dots appear all over his head. Scroll over them a few times to make them go away.
3.The Nose
When you pull his nose off it will grow back again, maybe into something different. This is the order it goes in:
Normal X3
Hook Nose
Big Nose
Square Nose
Pipe Nose (Puffs out smoke)
Propellor Nose (spin the end 3 times and it'll fly away)
Cannon Nose (Ignite it by rolling over the fuse)
Tree Nose (Leave the food when it falls on the floor)
Elephant Nose (Feed the man if you give it food)
4.The Foot Food
Each peice of food (apart from the white one) make legs of something the same colour appear in his head. You end up with the legs of a Bear, Horse, Elephant, Human, a thing with tentacles, Robot and Duck. The white one makes a hand come out of his ear to hold open the "lid" of his head.
5. Football
Open the top of his head and make the hand hold it open. All the legs will be up in the air. Hold it open for a bit and a ball will bouce on to the screen. Use the Elephant Nose to throw it up to the feet. They'll all start kicking the ball. Another ball will pop up, so do the same again. One more ball will come, so yet again throw it to the feet. Then, close the lid. The balls will dissapear.
6. Hurdles
You will see a tentacle at the bottom of his neck. Click it. Suddenly he will rise up and have all of the feet in his neck. Hold the mouse over the feet and he will start running. Soon enough a hurdle will come up. Click the legs to jump over it. When you have cleared 5 hurdles, carry on running. Fireworks will explode (boom!) and you will come up to a stand with a green film tape.
7. The Secret Movie
When you grab the green tape his head will pop open and the projector will come out. Smack the blue tape out of the way and put the green one in instead. Play the movie.
When you open the box this time another box will come out, then another. Open the third box to get the light blue food.
8. Fishies
When you feed him the light blue food, his featured disappear and he fills up with water and fish.
Take some food from the bottom-right corner and hold it above the water in the circle that pops up. A fish will jump out of the water and eat the food. (you can just plonk it in the water, but that's not as fun.) When you have fed them all the food, the fishes will leave and you will get the red food.
9. Red Head
Feed him the red food and pull open his head, getting the hand to hold it open. A whole new head will pop out! (yay!) If you pull the new head's ear, he will yawn. If you poke his nose it will blow up like a balloon and of you poke his eye, he'll open his mouth with his eye on his toungue, and theneat it again. But if you toutch his head, something different will happen...
10. 6 Heads are Better than 1
Beleive it or not an eagle's head pops out. Poke his beak to make him cry out. Touch the eagle's hair and an eye-monster thing will pop out. (it's quite fun to poke the eye-monster thing's eye and watch it bulge out. Click the eye-monster thing's hair and a bowling ball will pop out (Click loads on the bowling ball to see dirst stuff fly around him). Click on the top of the bowling ball's head and a worm will pop out.
Pull the red man's ear to make him yawn. The yawn will travel through the heads until it reaches the worm. The worm will yawn out the amazing multicolour food!
11. The Happy Ending
When all the other heads have gone, feed the amazing multicolour food to the man. His features will disappear. Now, when you scroll over him, the part you scroll breaks apart, turned into a nice colour and happily flies away.
When he has all gone, the game will automatically restart
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR READING MY GUIDE, I HOPE IT HELPED!
Posted by: Nosh Box | January 8, 2008 6:11 PM