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Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« on: October 21, 2008, 08:52:17 PM »
2DBoy official site link.
The game is actually AWSOME, best 2D game of the year or something like that. :D

On official sites, you get a dozen links to game reviews on some popular internet game magazines, like IGN or PC gamer.
An extra link for the russian-speaking guys.

In short - its an alternative game with the idea of Lemmings, Armadillo and Incredible Machine's misxed up together in this 2d game. And it also reminds me of Bridge It! all the time, as the idea of some missions is to make some sort of a bridge - but the main difference here is that here you have no building phase, as the game is real-time.
Here, the bridging thing:


An unusual feature of the game is a real-time competition among all the players - all the extra goo-balls saved upon finishing the mission are piled up to be used later fof building the highest tower of all times. And as you build, you actually see information about all the other players in the world(their nicknames and countries shown) with the heights and amount of used goo-balls on their own towers.
Just a short while ago, over 60000 players were building their towers.

Screenshots at IGN.



Forgot to add:
Here is how it all started -a free to download game, that was before this one. The basics are almost the same. Java/flash game(2 Mb).
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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2008, 09:18:03 PM »
There is a demo version.
Maybe on one of these review sites. Its about 32 Mb in size.
Here, on gamershell
Link on official site in news to filefront.
Link to forums for mirrors made by people.

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2008, 09:26:36 PM »
Yeah I heard.


No, I didn't give a shit.




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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2008, 09:50:57 PM »
Wow, I downloaded the demo and I'm amazed. It's so much fun :)

Certainly buying it.
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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2008, 10:22:24 PM »
I remember this little minigame called Goo Tower. This is probably related.

Will give it a shot when i'm not busy awesomeing in X3.

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2008, 10:48:03 PM »
People too lazy to even download demo - use youtube to at least look at the gameplay trailers.

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #6 on: October 22, 2008, 01:32:45 AM »
I remember this little minigame called Goo Tower. This is probably related.

Will give it a shot when i'm not busy awesomeing in X3.
http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/game.php?g=17

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #7 on: October 22, 2008, 05:26:07 AM »
It's quite a fun little game, I quite enjoyed it, only the epilogue left to complete.

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #8 on: October 22, 2008, 02:36:03 PM »
Even if you "finish" it, there is still OCD to do.
Press Escape->OCD to see the requirements. And getting all missions in all the chapters "flagged" will take tens if not hundreds times the time it took you to get to the last mission of the last chapter.
So far seen some guys with 697 balls in the tower mode, but dunno if that is the maximum.

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #9 on: October 22, 2008, 09:00:26 PM »
Yeah I heard.


No, I didn't give a shit.




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Pfft, where's your indie spirit?

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #10 on: October 23, 2008, 12:18:35 AM »
Yeah I heard.


No, I didn't give a shit.




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Pfft, where's your indie spirit?

I can picture Arch saying "Indie spirit!? Humbug!"

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #11 on: October 23, 2008, 01:48:12 AM »
Yeah I heard.

 
No, I didn't give a shit.




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Pfft, where's your indie spirit?

I can picture Arch saying "Indie spirit!? Humbug!"



You forgot the "bah".
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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #12 on: October 23, 2008, 04:05:17 AM »
Arch better have Indie spirit, as he's in an Indie game forum an' all.

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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #13 on: October 23, 2008, 04:33:17 AM »
I remember this little minigame called Goo Tower. This is probably related.

Will give it a shot when i'm not busy awesomeing in X3.
http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/game.php?g=17
Haha! I downloaded that game. It's a lot more difficult than I'd expected, Although perhaps my swollen and nearly-broken finger is limiting my capabilities.


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Re: Omg, you havent heard about it yet? World of Goo is out!
« Reply #14 on: October 23, 2008, 10:32:29 AM »
Arch better have Indie spirit, as he's in an Indie game forum an' all.

Indie =/= good game. I couldn't stand ******** Lemmings either.
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