World of Goo Goes Gold

By: Brandon McCartin (BMcC)

On: September 10th, 2008

Good news, fans of good games (and alliteration) — World of Goo has gone gold!

World of Goo is a funky, very well put together structural puzzle platformer thing from two-man dev team 2D Boy in which you must direct a bunch of balls of goo safely through a world of hazards by forming them into— wait, I’m tired and rusty and not doing a great job of this description. Observe some trailers here and here.

If you recall, World of Goo won the Design Innovation and Technical Excellence awards at the 2008 IGF, in addition to being nominated for the Grand Prize. That’s nothing to sneeze at!

So, yeah, it’s gone gold and it should be out in boxed form for the PC in early November and for digital download/WiiWare even earlier than that. You can also preorder it now (with bonuses) for a scant $20 USD through 2D Boy’s site. Goodness.

Posted in Physics, Platformers, Puzzle, Wii, Windows | Tags: 2DBoy

http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

I really need to get back into the swing of writing articles… sheesh.
colorFool

Good to see you back BMcC! And don’t worry – it’s the content that counts. And the content is gooood! Congrats to 2D Boy! If I ever can pay my bills again and have some money left, I will look into buying this this.
Derek

OMG.
ChevyRay

I thought the announcement was okay.

My god I love the trailers for this game. I’m totally going to buy it for my Wii. <3
Fluroarmadillo

Wow finally.
Paroxysm

AWESOME! I preordered this thing so long ago but I don’t care because the beta was brilliant so the full thing will be even better. I’ve got wiiware points to waste so I might just buy it on that too to support 2d boy.
PHeMoX

*Goo*dness … I lol’ed.
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

@Derek: OMG is right!

@colorFool: Thanks, I appreciate it. :)

@PHeMoX: We may live in the same Group Home and not even realize it.
http://www.farbs.org Farbs

Dear Ron, Kyle, and heck even BMcC:

<3
Chris

2D Boy needs to make with the release dates!

I pre-ordered the PC download and I want it soon. “earlier than that early November” is not specific enough!
http://www.tscreative.net BMcC

@Farbs: Yeah, developing World of Goo was tough…

I mean, I could *tell* it was tough from the blog and stuff. And that really weighed on me, you know? Like, emotionally.

But we put our heads down and just powered through. I’m proud of those guys. :’)
Cougarten

you all know http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/game.php?g=1 do you?
Guess the Word of Goo will be MUCH MUCH better :)