World of Goo Goes Gold

Posted by Brandon "BMcC" McCartin Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:30:00 GMT

World of Goo Cover Art

Good news, fans of good games (and alliteration)—World of Goo has gone gold!

World of Goo is a funky, very well put together structural puzzle platformer thing from two-man dev team 2D Boy in which you must direct a bunch of balls of goo safely through a world of hazards by forming them into—wait, I’m tired and rusty and not doing a great job of this description. Observe some trailers here and here.

If you recall, World of Goo won the Design Innovation and Technical Excellence awards at the 2008 IGF, in addition to being nominated for the Grand Prize. That’s nothing to sneeze at!

So, yeah, it’s gone gold and it should be out in boxed form for the PC in early November and for digital download/WiiWare even earlier than that. You can also preorder it now (with bonuses) for a scant $20 USD through 2D Boy’s site. Goodness.

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  1. BMcC said 24 minutes later:

    I really need to get back into the swing of writing articles… sheesh.

  2. colorFool said about 1 hour later:

    Good to see you back BMcC! And don’t worry - it’s the content that counts. And the content is gooood! Congrats to 2D Boy! If I ever can pay my bills again and have some money left, I will look into buying this this.

  3. Derek said about 2 hours later:

    OMG.

  4. ChevyRay said about 2 hours later:

    I thought the announcement was okay.

    My god I love the trailers for this game. I’m totally going to buy it for my Wii. <3

  5. Fluroarmadillo said about 2 hours later:

    Wow finally.

  6. Paroxysm said about 4 hours later:

    AWESOME! I preordered this thing so long ago but I don’t care because the beta was brilliant so the full thing will be even better. I’ve got wiiware points to waste so I might just buy it on that too to support 2d boy.

  7. PHeMoX said about 5 hours later:

    Goodness … I lol’ed.

  8. BMcC said about 11 hours later:

    @Derek: OMG is right!

    @colorFool: Thanks, I appreciate it. :)

    @PHeMoX: We may live in the same Group Home and not even realize it.

  9. Farbs said about 22 hours later:

    Dear Ron, Kyle, and heck even BMcC:

    <3

  10. Chris said 1 day later:

    2D Boy needs to make with the release dates!

    I pre-ordered the PC download and I want it soon. “earlier than that early November” is not specific enough!

  11. BMcC said 1 day later:

    @Farbs: Yeah, developing World of Goo was tough…

    I mean, I could tell it was tough from the blog and stuff. And that really weighed on me, you know? Like, emotionally.

    But we put our heads down and just powered through. I’m proud of those guys. :’)

  12. Cougarten said 1 day later:

    you all know http://www.experimentalgameplay.com/game.php?g=1 do you? Guess the Word of Goo will be MUCH MUCH better :)

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