It’s like tree ice cream

Vanilla comes from a flash game programmer who brings us such game gems as Grow, a strangely surreal game that has you trying to cultivate a creature from a single seed. Vanilla isn’t quite the same game, but it does involve you growing a shrub that looks somewhat like a multi-scoop ice cream cone. The only thing is, each shrub seems to have devil ears.

This flash game features, quite possibly, the cutest pieces of botany that the Internet will have seen in its history. That’s one plus for this simple game.

When you first open the window to play Vanilla, you are greeted with a Flash screen that doesn’t sit in your browser. Actually, it extends beyond your browser, unless you happen to have a rather long resolution. And while most times, a flash screen that extends beyond your browser is a sign of poor planning on the programmer’s part, that’s not the case here. In fact, it’s quite deliberately longer than your screen.

Why does it stretch so long? Because the whole point of the game is to make the shrubs grow as high as you can by clicking on the blinking square generally placed on the forehead of the shrubs. As the shrubs get stacked higher, you need to click on the foreheads of each shrub in sequence in order to make it grow higher.

The trick is not only to make the shrub grow in height, but to also keep it from touching the outside of the flash screen. Since the flash screen is quite skinny, this actually takes a bit of conscious effort on your part. If you press a little to the left or a little to the right of the flashing square, your whole shrubbery will threaten to tip over.

This game is a simple diversion that will have you wanting to beat your last highest shrubbery score. Bet you can’t just play it once.

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