World of Goo oozes onto PC and Wii in '08

41 Comments by Alexander Sliwinski Jan 28th 2008 2:00PM
Filed under: Nintendo Wii

IGF Finalist World of Goo is coming to Wii and PC sometime this year, according to developer 2D Boy's website. The site also states the game will be available for Mac and Linux "shortly after" its Wii and PC debut, with the PC version already priced at $20 – no price has been given for the Wii version yet.

If you purchase the PC version there is a "complimentary Profanity Pack," which takes us back to that age-old question: Motion controls or profanity? Hmmm, tough choice. We're looking forward to getting some hands-on time with the PC version of World of Goo next month at GDC.

Update: Quotes from developer Ron Carmel after the break.

[Via Wii Fanboy]

Regarding Wii development: "The Wii version is coming along really nicely. We actually played the game on Wii for the first time a couple of weeks ago and thanks to our genius friend Allan Blombquist, who is doing the Wii port, the game now runs at a super-smooth 60 frames per second on Wii and it actually plays really nicely with a Wiimote."

Regarding a Wii profanity pack: "We'd love to do a profanity pack for Wii, but it might be a challenge to get that approved by Nintendo. We have other voice-over ideas for Wii that might be funny, but there's also the technical challenge of doing an add-on pack on Wii. If WiiWare will support something like that, it'd be perfect."

Tags: 2d-boy, 2dboy, world-of-goo

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Christopher Grant: Jan 28th 2008; 2:07PM

Great game!

Fernando Rocker: Jan 28th 2008; 2:09PM

Have you try it? Looks very good... what can you tell us about the game? =)

Christopher Grant: Jan 28th 2008; 2:11PM

I played it as an IGF judge and, lemme say, it was my favorite finalist.

danny.: Jan 28th 2008; 2:34PM

I heard your praise for this game on the podcast. You recommended another game as well new-something. Any chance I could get a spelling on that one?

Fernando Rocker: Jan 28th 2008; 2:17PM

Wow... thanks... I hope that the Wii port is good.

Raikage (Wii FC 5508 0487 4434 0992): Jan 28th 2008; 2:32PM

I'm diggin the Tim Burton soundtrack...

Oh and it looks awesome.

WII WARE PLZ!

Christopher Grant: Jan 28th 2008; 2:36PM

danny.: other one is Noitu Love 2. Here's a gameplay video of it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=XK37gN7kCwQ

danny.: Jan 28th 2008; 4:29PM

That looks like a game for me...

hvnlysoldr: Jan 29th 2008; 1:29AM

I heard this on the podcast. Cool

Fernando Rocker: Jan 28th 2008; 2:08PM

WTF?? Looks amazing! I am very surprised...

Fernando Rocker: Jan 28th 2008; 2:12PM

Looks very Pataponish with a touch of littlebigplanetish.

hvnlysoldr: Jan 29th 2008; 1:28AM

My first thoughts agreed with yours

Neebs: Jan 28th 2008; 2:09PM

Interesting...

Carrie: Jan 28th 2008; 2:09PM

Sweet! Tower of Goo is a fun game, that's awesome that they've come up with new types of gameplay for it.

Deck: Jan 28th 2008; 2:16PM

I wondered what all this goo talk was on the Podcast last week.

Hirsbrunner: Jan 28th 2008; 2:28PM

I have a movie with that same title.

Vegnagun bwf: Jan 28th 2008; 2:36PM

World of Goo 4: The Sticky War

WiNG: Jan 28th 2008; 2:28PM

wow actually looks pretty good.

I wish more devs capitalized on how the Wii pointer can substitute a mouse.

Now let's see some awesome RTS games on Wii!

Fernando Rocker: Jan 28th 2008; 2:32PM

Exactly... for me, the best feature of the Wii is the pointer (a lot better than motion controls).

Developers need to start using more the pointer feature... its great for RTS, strategy RPG's, FPS and every type game that use the mouse as the primary input.

Kite: Jan 28th 2008; 2:29PM

I really loved tower of goo, even the simple soundtrack. This game has been on my radar for a while.

Let's hope it really shines in the polishing. It's good to have a breath of fresh air

Vegnagun bwf: Jan 28th 2008; 2:30PM

Carmel is sort of a goo.

Bucket: Jan 28th 2008; 2:33PM

The world needs more crackhead game developers.

tcc3: Jan 28th 2008; 2:46PM

BPM4:Guns of the Idiots: Jan 28th 2008; 2:47PM

I have NO idea what I just watched... BUT I WANT IT ANYWAYS.

GombastiC: Jan 28th 2008; 2:47PM

Hope all WiiWare games are this good! :D

Graham: Jan 28th 2008; 2:48PM

Here is an earlier version of the game from a few years ago called "Tower of Goo."

http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/game.php?g=17

Martez: Jan 28th 2008; 2:49PM

The PC is just 50 Wiis duct-taped together.

hvnlysoldr: Jan 29th 2008; 1:28AM

Didn't know PC was so kinky. Also PC costs proportional to duct tape.

Trev: Jan 28th 2008; 2:53PM

[x] On Wii
[ ] Pointless waggle
[ ] Port from PS2/GCN
[ ] Yet another (insert Nintendo franchise I played when I was six)
[x] Looks cool

Wow. I might actually want to play a Wii game. Good work securing this, Nintendo. I like my gaming on consoles instead of PCs, but I also like my in-game profanity. Make it happen and you probably have another sale on your hands.

Blazur: Jan 28th 2008; 2:57PM

Seems like it could be fun, especially if there's a puzzle element to it.

tc: Jan 28th 2008; 3:06PM

looks great. guess i'll be playing Gish until it comes out...or mario galaxy, whatever

Maurice M: Jan 28th 2008; 3:52PM

I've heard a lot about this game, but haven't actually seen anything. I mean even this video doesn't really give you any idea how the game actually plays.

Mr Khan: Jan 28th 2008; 4:55PM

More 2D for the current generation, that's always a plus

But of course WiiWare can support this sort of thing, i don't know much about their SDK's, or if devs have that sort of access, but I know VC games have been updated in the past (mostly patches, though, like the one to slow down the framerate of StarFox 64 so that it was synched with the audio again)

Cluckyx: Jan 28th 2008; 5:26PM

Oh Snap. I remember Tower of Goo on the web apparently by the same people. Now THAT owned. It was so addictive.

Carlos: Jan 28th 2008; 5:33PM

i'm buying this, day one (if it's no more than 30 euros, of course)

Einhanderkiller: Jan 28th 2008; 7:03PM

I remember playing a game like this a year or two ago. It looked just like this, but your only objective was to build the highest tower possible without tipping over.

t_m: Jan 29th 2008; 1:28AM

Tower of goo rocked. It was about the only (video) game my girlfriend ever got interested in as well.

I love the presentation... almost tim burton... heck, the music reminds me of the orignal batman...

SeriousKriss: Jan 29th 2008; 5:50AM

"Motion controls or profanity?"

Well duh. Both of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_ytdW6Ys2A

Shockgamer: Jan 29th 2008; 6:32AM

Not paying a penny over five dollars for this.

Martez: Jan 29th 2008; 3:19PM

I will pay 501 Wii Points for this!

You can only buy it in packs of 1000, anyway :( I was pretty upset about this when I wanted a 1200 point title.

James: Jan 29th 2008; 5:39PM

I'm waiting for the sequel. Tower of Poo

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