World of Goo oozes onto PC and Wii in '08

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."

Reader Comments (41)

Great game!

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

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

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?

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

I'm diggin the Tim Burton soundtrack...

Oh and it looks awesome.

WII WARE PLZ!

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

That looks like a game for me...

I heard this on the podcast. Cool

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

Looks very Pataponish with a touch of littlebigplanetish.

My first thoughts agreed with yours

Interesting...

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

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

I have a movie with that same title.

World of Goo 4: The Sticky War

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!

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.

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

Carmel is sort of a goo.

The world needs more crackhead game developers.

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

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

Hope all WiiWare games are this good! :D

The PC is just 50 Wiis duct-taped together.

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

[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.

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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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.

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...

"Motion controls or profanity?"

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

Not paying a penny over five dollars for this.

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.

I'm waiting for the sequel. Tower of Poo

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