Gish 2 Cannot Come Soon Enough for Me

By: Derek Yu

On: April 17th, 2008

On the Cryptic Sea blog, programmer Alex Austin explains that the physics for our favorite ball of tar have changed quite a bit in Gish 2. Gish is now composed of 128 independently moving particles, as opposed to being a single, deformable object. The possibilities for this, of course, are tremendous!

I can’t wait for this game! (whine)

Posted in Physics, Platformers, Previews, Videos | Tags: CrypticSea

Valkyrie

Pretty cool, though I don’t think Gish doesn’t “feel” like tar anymore. I guess we’ll have to wait until it comes out to see how it plays.
Valkyrie

Oops. Double negative. Knock off that “don’t” and you have my intended post.
Stwelin

Looks like it could add a lot to the gameplay, very interesting indeed. I wonder if you will be able to leave part of yourself behind and switch between independent blobs.
Robert

Also: Awesome music.
Jon

Looks great, Interesting how you can just leave parts of yourself behind. music annoyed the hell out of me.
http://drcliche.wordpress.com PoisonedV

He doesn’t look thick enough
Scott

Reminds me of sodaconstructor
FishyBoy

Wow, the secrets voices were great in the original, and they managed to improve them. Amazing.

Super blob physics is also pretty cool.
waRsome

Look’s yum! Keep up the good-work TIGS, I read everyday and love to bits, thanks.
Paroxysm

Mr Bungle + crazy blob physics make this news complete win.
Cave Story

Gish has turned into a giant ball of AIDS it seems.
You can try to smash him, but he’ll send some of his particles through your eyeball that will start spreading its red semen through your veins.

And I would like to take this opportunity to say that physics toys don’t look like they are a lot fun. This one at least doesn’t look like it. I could play with that for a minute but I’m not sure I’d take the time to try and beat all the levels.

Great music though.
Joseph White

This looks like great fun.. Alex is obviously working hard to get the feel of the new gish just right. Now that I’ve seen more than one gishoid, I kind of want a whole bunch of characters with different properties and controls. Ms. Gish, super stretchy gish, in-built blobby grapling hook gish.

There is the danger of the game feeling like a physics toy, but that’s what good level design is for.
Trav

Let’s get pedantic. The particles do not move independently, they interact, however their position is tracked independently, allowing them to split and recombine in fanciful and possibly even erotic ways
Brokenbroll

I wasn’t a huge fan of Gish, but the creators have some nice taste in music, first with using Estradasphere for the first game’s soundtrack, and now some Mr. Bungle for this little demo.
muku

Hm, I hope they make this more, um, user-friendly in the final game. I wouldn’t want to go chasing after dozens of my split off parts after every jump maneuver just so I don’t run out of goo.
DocDark

Looks sweet to me. Didn’t play Gish alot though, but I think I’m gonna get II. :D
Bezzy

Awesome. Looks almost like a return-nod to Goo (which has a Gish skin).

Definitely harder to get this kinda physics based stuff working really well, but if there’s some way to pull the split off droplets back to you automagically, I can see it totally working. You can already see the old behaviour emerging (which is still my favorite platform game mechanic – so versatile once you’re used to it).
Ilia Chentsov

Reminds me of this game by Running with Scissors which they never made, Flesh and Wire.
http://0xdeadc0de.org Eclipse

Loco Roco meets Gish
Victo

Think I just came in my pants o_o
raelz

gimme gimme!!
shinyerbil
shinyerbil

/me sighs

That was supposed to read ``. I guess I’ve learned something about input sanitisation today.
AmnEn

Looks rather confusing to me. I hope it really turns out to be a great game mechanic aside from playing with physics.
fartron

Mike Patton is the Derek Yu of music.
http://unoriginalreality.blogspot.com Chase

Awesome. Gish has always been one of my favorite games, and like Derek said it can’t come soon enough!
Pip

So how did the blob work in the first game if it wasn’t a particle system?
Pip

(That wasn’t meant to sound facetious, I’m genuinely interested…)
PHeMoX

It basically was a ‘tank tracks’-like physics object, but without anything else but the ‘tank tracks’.
Hunty

groovy. I had a lot of trouble with the controls of the first game, but hopefully I’ll get along better with this one.
ZeppMan217

OMGDG! I ****** impressed! This is just…just…AAA…
PS: sorry for emotions. its just so..SO…..
Pip

@PHeMoX

Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks.
Miso

Interesting… but how do you die now? When more than X percent of your original mass gets destroyed?
Stwelin

It’s gonna be fun to see how they keep gish’s face on that blob of particles… will each group have it’s own gish face? hmmm
Smithy

Didn’t that Edmund guy clarify in the forums that Gish won’t actually have the ability to deconstruct himself and leave parts of himself behind in the actual game? That it was just a debug test he was using?

That probably should have been pointed out here, somewhere or other. Now people are starting to have expectations of an explosive gish.
DaVince

Technically quite impressing. Playing like this could give the advantage of having “weights”, multiple buttons, etcetera. Nice.