Comments for "World of Goo! - new crazy cool indie game trailer" Video at VideoSift.com

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:02:39 -0800

Rock, Paper, Shotgun has an excited write-up of the game.

Oh heck, I'm going to quote them at length - hope they don't mind. They're so keen at RPS about it that they'll probably appreciate it.

... I have the suspicion this will be this year’s Peggle, in terms of the surface-simple Puzzle game which takes over the PC-mainstream.

Except that’s not really true - it’s a much more traditional PC game-game than Peggle, whose puzzles are purely abstract things, with the whole thing’s plot being obviously deeply tongue-in-cheek - hell, the whole graphical style’s appeal is that it’s so obviously ironic. Conversely, there’s little of that in World of Goo. It’s a surreal little, perfectly considered, coherent world, and while it uses irony neatly at a few points, it’s proper-irony rather than so-shit-it’s-good quasi-irony.

And I’m going off on one, which I’m trying not to do - there’s lots of pretentious things to say about it (Hell - for me, everything has a few pretentious things to say about), but they’re not what’s key. It’s just a charming, funny puzzle game. When Jim saw it, amazed by how slick it feels for a two-person show, he noted it passed his girlfriend test in the head - that it’s something he can imagine his other half playing and adoring. When Alec saw it, he thought it was quite something, paused in the MSN window for a few seconds and determinedly stated that it was something we should Champion. And John’s been playing fellow IGF-finalist Crayon physics Deluxe, so no news on that front yet. I bet he likes it.

We’ll hopefully have an interview with 2D Boy just before World of Goo’s release, but you want, you can pre-order the game for twenty dollars from their site. That allows you to become a Beta Tester, if you so desire, and gives access to the pre-order specific profanity pack, which swaps the eeks and ooks of your Gooey charges for my usual brusque idiom.

By Bakalex

Bakalex (http://www.videosift.com/member/Bakalex) — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:36:30 -0800

OMG ! I've got the first one on my computer. At first, it's a small game within a student project which consists in designing/creating a game per week. Simple/Unique gameplay for powerful games.

Nice to see that it has envolved in something that seems absolutly awesome !

By siftbot

siftbot (http://www.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:53:05 -0800

Moving this video to Krupo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 3 days.

By kronosposeidon

kronosposeidon (http://kronosposeidon.videosift.com) — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 17:56:33 -0800

Looks like it could be interesting, and I generally don't care for video games.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:06:15 -0700

I played its demo and enjoyed it. I am stuck on Tower of Goo level.

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:57:31 -0700

You know, I should probably sit down and play it sometime soon seeing as how it just came out for real.