Make My Head Grow / 4'33" of Uniqueness

Posted by Brandon "BMcC" McCartin Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:05:00 GMT


Make My Head Grow is a two player competitive game of head-smashing and box-pushing, made within 48 hours, that recently cleaned up at the 2009 Nordic Game Jam. I find its gameplay remarkably disturbing.

(Thanks Renaud!)

While I’m here, I might as well post Petri’s “experimental art game” entry (which apparently Heather and Cactus contributed to) called 4′33″ of Uniqueness. It makes me feel a little bit sad.

Check out Kokoromi’s site for more info and also pictures as well!

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  1. BMcC said 33 minutes later:

    Heather! I had no idea you were all the way over there. Super cool! Are you gonna upload your talk?

  2. Berbank said about 1 hour later:

    Damn this is good.

  3. Bennett said about 1 hour later:

    It makes me jealous when people have such brilliant, simple and original ideas.

  4. pyabo said about 2 hours later:

    WTF is going on in that game? Some explain the gameplay concept, cuz I’m just not getting it.

  5. YakAttack! said about 2 hours later:

    This is why I love the independent gaming scene. Hahah.

  6. Secret Admirer said about 2 hours later:

    4′33″ of Uniqueness was fucking great, but I can’t beat it haha

  7. Turgid said about 4 hours later:

    pyabo: Looks like you “charge up” your guy by banging his head into the floor, then use that stored mass to ram the other guy off the platform. It’s all about choosing when to charge up and when to bang the other player.

  8. FISH said about 4 hours later:

    just wait a few weeks.

    thats my strategy.

  9. PHeMoX said about 4 hours later:

    Remarkably disturbing, but remarkably brilliant as well. Awesome.

  10. Edmund said about 4 hours later:

    what no AVGM!

  11. Phasma Felis said about 5 hours later:

    BMcC: You left off the “Windows” and “Multiplayer” tags. :)

  12. Anthony Flack said about 6 hours later:

    Video no longer available? Already?

  13. Cobalt said about 8 hours later:

    Make My Head Grow is an awesome title for anything.

  14. sinoth said about 9 hours later:

    why is the game 55 megs. WHYYYY

  15. Glaiel Gamer said about 9 hours later:

    it’s a flash game, why haven’t they released it online?

  16. Cobalt said about 10 hours later:

    4’33” of Uniqueness makes me feel a little bit sad, too. It makes me want to kick the creator’s head.

  17. Francker said about 10 hours later:

    The reason for MMHG being a 55 file is that it was done in 48 hours over a weekend. Optimizing the size of animations and sound was not given a thought :P

  18. Flamebait said about 10 hours later:

    I like the visual and audio design, but the actual mechanical “game” part is so vapid as to make the whole thing pointless.

  19. . said about 19 hours later:

    THANKS FOR MAKING THIS GAME IMPOSSIBLE TIGSOURCE

  20. Blueberry_pie said about 21 hours later:

    Ugh, too many damn griefers taking all the fun out of 4′33″ of Uniqueness.

  21. Cas said about 23 hours later:

    This “game” looks like utter fucking rubbish.

    Cas :)

  22. BMcC said 1 day later:

    A slap on the wrist for you, Cas.

    There’s no need to be so rude.

  23. sinoth said 1 day later:

    I want a slap bracelet too :(

  24. Loki said 1 day later:

    YOU ARENT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT 4′33″. NOW ITS WAY TOO HARD.

  25. Eddie said 1 day later:

    boom shaka-laka boom!

  26. Cas said 1 day later:

    I feel like being rude these days. Both of these “games” give rubbish a good name.

  27. noah said 1 day later:

    love the art and music in make my head grow, dont love the gameplay and dont see why its unique. 433 is conceptually interesting, not all that interesting to play though

  28. Quetz said 1 day later:

    I love 4’33”. I try it out every now and then (feeling a little bad about probably ruining someone else’s game.) Farthest I’ve gotten is about halfway.

  29. Ezuku said 1 day later:

    This game scares me. A lot.

  30. moboid said 1 day later:

    Hey guys. yeah I still need to upload my talk.

    But better yet, I just uploaded the NGJ version gaba aba by Cactus+Friends. It’s on my blog which is also linked from kokoromi. Jonatan might do a cleaned up version later but for now, get it right here!

  31. pnutz said 1 day later:

    I can’t wait for Make My Head Grow Deluxe.

  32. BMcC said 1 day later:

    Petri didn’t make Make My Head Grow.

    Joke ruined.

  33. Kobel said 2 days later:

    Cas is absolutely right. It’s almost like they just made this shit in a day or two.

  34. Chris said 2 days later:

    Has anyone actually finished 4’33”? I’m no griefer, but even I realised how easy it would be to be a jerk with windows task scheduler. Set to run the program every, say, 4 minutes and 31 seconds.

  35. gulo gulo said 2 days later:

    john cage games are the best composer games

  36. Quetz said 3 days later:

    Oh man, I just beat 4’33”.The ending will change your life.

  37. Jason said 4 days later:

    oh yes i completed 4”33’ Youve obviously got a better chance if you start in a strange hour of the day

  38. Petri Purho said 4 days later:

    This thing will make playing the game much more interesting: http://acmserver.cs.ucr.edu/~jbasseri/4_33.htm

  39. Cougarten said 4 days later:

    @Quetz: did they have to name it end_screen.bmp ?

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