Eating
Eating is a very important part of Grow. In order for the creatures to grow and gain the ability to attack and capture eggs, they must eat.
To start with, a creature is in 'slug form' and is only capable of eating. Fortunately, eating is simple. Players only need to move their creature to the food for the creature to eat it.
There are three types of food: meat, candy and fruit. Meat is attributed to 'power', candy to 'speed' and fruit to 'skill'. What type of food a creature eats most of will determine what it will grow into. For example, eating a lot of meat will cause a creature to grow powerful; transforming into a larger, stronger creature. On the other hand, eating candy with cause a creature to get faster, becoming more streamlined and agile.
There are three sizes of food: small, medium and large. Each size gives a different amount of 'stomach points' that are required to fill the 'stomach meter' and cause the creature to grow. In slug form, a creature need only eat 5 points worth of one type of food to grow. In second form, the creature needs to eat 20 points. Small foods are worth 1 point, medium foods are worth 5 points and large foods are worth 10 points. Large foods are generally very difficult to find unless you explicitly search for them, being found in hard to reach places that branch off from the usual level pathways.
