World of Goo Design Tour

By: Derek Yu

On: December 2nd, 2008

Wolfire‘s David Rosen has started something cool: a “design tour” of innovative games, where he examines their design choices and shares the lessons on video. His tour begins with World of Goo, which is rife with interesting design decisions. As far as reviews go, I think it’s tops – David’s analysis is spot on, friendly, and feels like it is thinking about the game from both sides of the screen. Great work!

Posted in Community, Developers, Videos | Tags: 2DBoy, DavidRosen

Bad Sector

Very good tour and i liked the “oh that explains it” part :-)
Rory

Great analysis of a great game.

And this is the third feed this has turn up on. First Wolffire then 2D Boy now here :D
Venus Flytrap

That’s a really interesting idea. It’s almost refreshing to hear someone else’s point of view, and comment on less highly scrutinized things like the user interface and loading screens.
BlademasterBobo

http://www.loadscreenreview.com/
Q

a propos atmosphere: what have thay done to the cavestory musik! http://uk.wii.ign.com/dor/objects/14287155/cave-story/videos/cavestory_vid3_112608.html;jsessionid=16gc6dkv0vyuy
MrLollige

Awesome! Sad thing is, how do you copy the good parts.. without copying?

;)
Mark-P

Very interesting and enjoyable. I hope he does more.
Al King

MrLollige, forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=1950.msg48586#msg48586 ;)
Sparky

There’s such an overabundance of shallow review videos out there already- it’s about time someone started making videos that are more friendly investigation and less Olympic judge panel. I look forward to the next video in the series.
IdleDeveloper

So refreshing to hear analysis of a game rather than one persons opinion. Would love to see more of these.
mrfredman

Its funny how he praises the level titled “You have to explode the head” for its originality and exellence. Has he never played You have to Burn the Rope?! It is clearly a tribute to that.
What ignorance and audacity! That clod!