It's been half an hour since the end-of-school bell rang, and the halls have gone quiet. The only people still on campus are teachers wrapping up work and students with extracurricular activities.

As President of the Science Club, it's my job to get to the classroom first and make sure everything is ready for our meeting. The other girls have been out saying goodbye to their friends or working on their own projects.

Jennifer arrives first. She represents the science of Biology. She's also the Vice-President of the club, and tends to be bossy.

Jennifer asks, "Why are you wearing that mask?"
I say, "It's an experiment."
Jennifer responds, "Oh. Right."
My science, of course, is Psychology. I have to keep them on their toes.
Jennifer says, "Andrea's getting snacks. And I saw Heather downstairs, I think she was playing a video game."
I say, "I'm sure everyone will be here soon..."

Suddenly, from outside, we hear the sound of screams, like a pack of overexcited fans rushing a rock star.

jennifer looks scared. "What's going on?"

We peer out of the window to see...

What looks like an oversized rosebush has seized hold of Ms. Bullfinch's hair. I've heard her shriek in math class, but never like that.

Jennifer shouts, "Look, one of them's got Mr. Breyer's toupee!"

... And thus begins the invasion. What are these plantlike monsters? What do they want? And how can they be stopped?

The first level is playable (We're busy working on the next), and there's a public alpha available from [url]http://spikycaterpillar.dreamhosters.com/[/url]
Alpha testers using unusual systems or low-resource systems are particularly desired; it runs on Linux (x86), MacOS X 10.4+, and Windows.




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This is interesting ;o the atmosphere of the game reminds me of the old Playstation game called Persona.

this game looks cool!

It looks neat.

nice looking game ....

want to see more screenshot of the game

Question: What is the game engine used? Ren'Py Visual Engine, I presume. I just want to ask.

Besides that, this game is definitely fitting to people who love science. (like me) ^^

The ladies are so cute! The game would be a kicker on mobile phone.

Pretty interesting! Yeah the characters're cute!

I remember seeing this on Hanako Games in development. It looks really interesting.

It's out now. It's really cute! Sometimes I let Jennifer heal the other girls just to hear her say "Arigatou gozaimasu"

it got annoying to have to fight the 6 stealth balls, they kept mirroring but it's nice though I only played the demo

Yeah, I wish it's the 1-hour free trial though, so even if I don't buy the game (cuz I don't have a credit card) I can see at least 1 ending. Same goes with Spirited Heart

You can buy with PayPal and other paying methods.

@Kirroha: I don't have that either. Besides, my parents disagree with any online shopping.

well if big fish gets those games then there will be trial versions...

This game seems interesting, I'll check it out ASAP.

I loved this game, from the graphics, battles and amusing anecdotes. Hanako always releases quality games, and although short, definitely worth the price in my opinion.