World of Goo on sale for 'your' price; iPhone port coming

by David Hinkle on Oct 13th 2009 4:30PM

My my, how time flies. On this date one year ago, World of Goo entered our lives and, well ... it made everything all gooey. (The good, warm kinda gooey.) To celebrate the game's birthday, 2D Boy is offering the title for -- wait for it -- whatever price you want to pay.

Seriously, once you enter a price into the appropriate checkout field, you buy the game for that amount. We'd encourage you to cough up as much as you can spare though, because 2D Boy totally deserves your money. The sale ends Monday, October 19, so start digging under those couch cushions.

You may also want to set aside some loose change for the upcoming World of Goo iPhone port. 2D Boy has a build running on a 3GS right now and is working to get the game going on the vanilla 3G. We'll be sure to keep you posted on its progress.

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Tags: 2d-boy, Apple, deal, deals, iPod, sale, world-of-goo

Reader Comments (51)

Better pay them a good amount because they need a new server :)

(and because its a great game)

I agree. I got it at wal mart awhile ago for 15 bucks. It's totally worth that. Also, 2D Boy rocks, and only they are awesome enough to do something like this.

Worth doing, and giving a at least 5 bucks toward. After all, its a great game and they already gave us the soundtrack for free. What more can you ask for?

I just bought this game last night for 3.50 on Target clearance. I own it on MAC but wanted it for the PC. I wonder if I can download a few of these as stocking stuffers for friends. Either way great game and an awesome way to give money to the developer of one of last years most over looked game.

I paid $15 for the WiiWare version and it was definitely worth it. I hope people choose to pay at least $10 so we can see more games from this company.

I think joystiq killed the server...

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connection.

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Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@2dboy.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

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Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

Firefox can't handle the awesomeness on this page.

Please come back later when Firefox regains its bearings and can actually bear to display such beauty.

...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.

I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?

Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

Listen to the angel and try to ignore the devil on your shoulder, please.

Angel: "Holy fucking shit! A game for $1, SWEET!"
Devil: "FIRST!"

What should I do if they're both dicks?

Doesn't that mean that you're a dick?

Haha! I'm just saying, it's your subconscious.

A cookie for anyone who pays more than the original asking price of the game.

Great game and worth every penny but stopped playing after I got to the later levels.

I just paid 40 bucks for this game.
Do I have a problem with that? Hell no. It's a rad game and they need ALL the support, considering how rampantly the game was pirated.

I wish I had as much disposable income as you.

you made up for the 1 cent i paid

I tried but can't log onto their server..gonna get this for 5 bucks and also the IPOD version.

I wish when creators did this, they'd let you download it for free (or a penny) and then give them more money a few days later. I don't know how much a game deserves before I buy it.

Hint: this one deserves a lot of your money.

I'm happy to hear your input, but there is no replacement for actually playing the game. While I am often like-minded with everyone else on games, there have been some excellent games that have put me to sleep. Alternatively, there have been crappy games that kept me entertained for many hours. I don't want to reward a game developer with a sliding money scale based on someone else's experiences.

Easy solution:

Either try to find a demo, if one exists, or pirate the game in place of a demo.

Then, if you like the game, buy it at whatever price you want, if not, just get rid of the demo/copy you have and don't buy it.

The second option is technically illegal, but so is pirating porn... just saying.

Also, you could but the game twice. Buy it once for $0.01, then if you like it just buy it again for more and perhaps give the second copy to friend?

Good solutions.. And WTF I thought porn piracy was the legal kind of
piracy? What do you mean "just saying"...WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING??

I think most people just see porn piracy as a victimless crime. Fat Norwegian midget women need work too! Think of the vertically-challenged!

A demo exists. Look it up, its on bigdownload (sister site to joystiq, or hot cousin, whatever you prefer) and many other sites. I'm sure its on their main site as well.

And its not skimpy demo either, its the full first chapter of the game.

thanks for the leads, all

Bought it, played it for quite some time, got stuck on one of the puzzles in the last chapter.

Delightfully styled, though. Very Tim Burton-esque

Well there's no platforming in it for a start. Gameplay wise, you just stick goo balls together to make a tower to reach the end of level pipe, but as with all the best puzzle games, the lengths it goes to with just one simple mechanic is what makes it. As one of the levels is subtitled: "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Yay! Reply fail. That was supposed to be to Nate, below.

I just watched a trailer at their website, is it accurate to say sticky Locoroco meets LBP? Cause thats what it looked like to me...

Would be nice if someone from Joystiq would make an Update that shows on the article showing the site is down instead of having people continuing to click and go to a server error.

Joystiq just destroyed their servers. It will probably only get worse as the day goes on when the story hits Kotaku, ect.

More like the whole Internet destroyed their servers.

Good solutions.. And WTF I thought porn piracy was the legal kind of
piracy? What do you mean "just saying"...WHAT ARE YOU IMPLYING??

Oh man, more reply fail.. make these two white..

worked for me.

like I did with In Rainbows... minimum price. .01

before i get downvoted (i probably will anyway) i'll buy the iphone port if i like it (like i bought the CD and vinyl of in rainbows after i realized it was the best album of the year)

Just purchased my copy for $13.37. Originally I had a pirated copy, but I'd figure if the developers are this cool and the game is decently fun I owe them! Cool experiment 2D Boy.

It's still broken. ;_;

Shit's still brizzoke @8:15pm. Never underestimate the drawing power of a free/really cheap game.

I'm rather pissed now. I paid to download it, and after charging my debit card it gave me an installer that didn't work. Now the site's been down for awhile so I can't try again or get help. I was being a good guy and giving them some money for it, unlike some people giving like nothing, and now I'm just getting ripped. Figures...

How long is it taking others to get their download links? I sent them money this afternoon and haven't heard back yet.

I just donated $10. I know it's only half what they ask for, but I also wrote them an email thanking them for what they are doing.

In a time where game piracy is rampant, I'm glad to see that they are taking the high road and putting faith in the gaming community, even when they will most likely lose a little money because of it.

We should all be extremely grateful.

So fun but so frustrating at the later levels!

I gave them $5 just cause... I love to see cartoony games with cool art and design get the credit they deserve!

Bought it for $20 day 1. One of the best $20 bills I've spent.

I paid .99 D:

I'm not proud of it... but I'm also unemployed atm and will remember this moment when I get a job >>;

2D Boy... FORGIVE ME, FOR I HAVE SINNED.

Bought 10 for $10. Sent out a bunch to my friends for free.

At first they thought I was giving them a virus or something lol.

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