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World of Goo
Developer(s)2D Boy
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)Ron Carmel
Designer(s)Kyle Gabler
Programmer(s)
  • Ron Carmel
  • Allan Blomquist
Artist(s)Kyle Gabler
Writer(s)Kyle Gabler
Composer(s)Kyle Gabler
Platform(s)
Release
October 13, 2008
  • Wii
    • NA:October 13, 2008
    • EU:December 19, 2008
    • JP:April 21, 2009
  • Microsoft Windows
    • NA:October 13, 2008
    • PAL:December 12, 2008
  • OS X
    • WW:November 2, 2008
  • Linux
    • WW:February 12, 2009
  • iOS
    • WW:December 16, 2010
  • Android
    • WW:November 28, 2011
  • BlackBerry OS
    • WW:January 21, 2013
  • Nintendo Switch
    • NA:March 16, 2017
    • PAL:March 23, 2017
    • JP:May 25, 2017
Genre(s)Puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player,multiplayer

World of Goois a physics-basedpuzzle video gamedeveloped and published byindependent game developer2D Boy. The game was released onMicrosoft WindowsandWiion October 13, 2008, with releases onNintendo Switch,Mac OS X,Linux,and variousmobile devicesin subsequent years.World of Goohas the player use small balls of goo to create bridges and similar structures over chasms and obstacles to help other goo balls reach a goal point, with the challenge to use as few goo balls as possible to build this structure.

The game was nominated for numerous awards—theSeumas McNally Grand Prize,Design Innovation Award, and Technical Excellence—at theIndependent Games Festival,and has gone on to win several other gaming awards, such asOutstanding Achievement in Game Designat the12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.The game was critically acclaimed and became one of the earliest examples of a commercially successfulindie game.

A sequel,World of Goo 2,was released on August 2, 2024, in collaboration withTomorrow Corporation.

Gameplay

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Overview

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Placing a goo ball to construct a bridge

The game is built around the idea of creating large structures using balls ofgoo.[4]The game is divided into five chapters, each containing severallevels.Each level has its own graphic and musical theme, giving a unique atmosphere. There is also a bonus meta-game calledWorld of Goo Corporation,where the objective is to build the highest tower using goo balls which the player collected through the course of the game. Players from all over the world can compete, as the height of the tower and number of goo balls used are being constantly uploaded to the 2D Boy server.

Objective

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The main objective of the game is to get a requisite number of goo balls to a pipe designed to represent the exit. In order to do so, the player must use the goo balls to construct bridges, towers, and other structures to overcome gravity and various terrain difficulties such as chasms, hills, spikes, windmills, or cliffs. There are several types of goo balls in the game, each of which has unique properties. The player must exploit combinations of these goo balls in order to complete each level. Extra goos recovered in the pipe are pumped through to World of Goo Corporation, a sandbox area where the objective is to compete with other players worldwide by building the tallest tower possible.[5]Players can also try to achieve the "Obsessive Completion Distinction Flag" for each level by completing the level under more stringent criteria, such as collecting a larger number of Goo balls, finishing under a set amount of time or using as few moves as possible.

The WiiWare version includes multiplayer with up to four people on the same Wii. This facility is also available, albeit unsupported, in the Linux port.[6]

Levels

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World of Goois split up into four chapters and an epilogue, each containing a number of levels. The chapters are set over the course of a year in theWorld of Goo.Each chapter takes place over one season, beginning in the start of summer, and ending at the end of spring the next year.[note 1]The 4th chapter is seasonless, and is set in a virtual world. Levels and chapters in the game are interspersed withcut scenes.

An additional location reached from the main menu is the World Of Goo Corporation. Goo balls collected above and beyond the required amount to pass a level are piped out of each of the played levels to here. Starting from just a single triangle of Goo, the aim is to build the highest possible tower. The Goo balls in the World of Goo Corporation are unique in that they can be repositioned like Ivy Goos but are black and can only form two connections at once like Common Goos.

In the World of Goo Corporation, towers built by other players of the game are represented by clouds bearing the player's name, nationality and height of the tower, including details on the total number of balls collected by the player and how many were used in constructing their tower. The altitude of each cloud represents the height of that player's tower. An online leaderboard charts the heights of the top 50 towers, as well as the top 10 players for each level of the game.

There are a total of 48 levels in the game, including World of Goo Corporation.

In an interview the developers stated that the retail version released in Europe would receive an additional sixth chapter, set on the Moon.[7]Few details were disclosed, but reportedly this chapter would have featured a freeform sandbox mode, similar to that of the World of Goo Corporation. This addition was canceled for Wii when 2D Boy announced they were releasing the game on WiiWare in Europe.

Plot

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The story is told primarily through cut scenes and signs encountered throughout the game, which were left by anunseen characterknown as the Sign Painter.

Initially, pipes appear throughout the land, waking up many sleeping Goo Balls who have gone undisturbed until this, as they are filled with a childlike sense of curiosity and naivety they build themselves towards the pipes. Upon reaching the pipe entrance, the Goo Balls are sucked by the pipe system into the "World of Goo Corporation" main building where they are processed into many products, like anenergy drink.The excess Goo Balls are left outside the Corporation headquarters where they together begin to build a giant tower. At the end of the first chapter, some Goo Balls escape from a Corporation building by attaching themselves to eyeballs which have the ability to fly. The chapter ends with the Goo Balls "seeing far away new lands".

In the second chapter, more pipes appear in a hostile wasteland where World of Goo Corporation is discovered to be searching for a new power source due to wind power not being sufficient anymore. However, the location and appearance of the power source was forgotten, because in the past, it stopped producing electricity.[note 2]A new Goo Ball is introduced, which is ground up by the Corporation into afacial cream.Near the end of the chapter, the power plant, which looks like a giant woman, is discovered. It is revealed that for many years, its remarkably powerful "beauty juice" powered the world. Yet with age, her beauty and consequently her electric output began to die. However, unrefined beauty goo was injected directly into her forehead, as to restore her youthful beauty once more. At the expense of her ability to move her face, power was restored to the entire world. With this newfound energy, World of Goo Corporation was able to open a factory, aiming to complete their most compelling new product.

During the third chapter it is said that the Corporation is developing a mysterious "Product Z." It eventually turns out that the mysterious Product Z is actually the third dimension (Product Z is theZ axisinmathematics). This causes much commotion amongst the general population who cannot see where anything is now. World of Goo Corporation tells them to contact tech support in theinformation superhighwayafter all life is rendered "incompatible with the world".

In the fourth chapter the Goo Balls set out to find the mysterious "MOM" program amongst a vector style environment. Shortly after the beginning the Goo Balls find the object responsible for rendering all the graphics. After pumping many of their own kind into the object, the graphics rendering improves, creating a more realistic environment (and the Pixel Goo Balls). Near the end they encounter MOM's computer, who turns out to be aspam bot,and supplies the Goo Balls with an "undelete" program. The Goo Balls try to overload Product Z by sending every message in the history of spam to everyone at World of Goo Corporation. After venturing to the Recycle Bin and un-deleting everything, World of Goo Corporation receives the mail and, unable to deal with so much spam and mail, explodes, shutting down Product Z while creating a massive layer ofsmog,dust,smokeanddebristhat envelops the entire world.

In the final chapter, it is revealed that all Goo Balls, except "scientifically pure" ones, have been sucked away to the "Tower of Goo Memorial Park and Recreation Center". The remaining Goo Balls decide to work their way up the world's tallest island to reach a site where thetelescopeis located. The final level of the game reveals that the Goo Balls are now completelyextinct,all the remaining having been sucked away to the shattered remains of World of Goo Corporation and added to the tower, and the gigantic telescope at the site has been rendered useless as it cannot see past the layer of smog. The Sign Painter reveals in his final sign that he has now become the Telescope Operator. Some balloon-likefishin the sea connect to the telescope and lift it out of the ground, where it breaks through the layer of smog and sees the tower of goo that has been built at the former World of Goo Corporation Headquarters, which can also see past the smog. The telescope falls back to earth before it could see what the Goo Balls were building towards. A final and last cutscene reveals their goal; the camera pans up into space to reveal that the Goo Balls that escaped at the end of Chapter 1 have managed to reach a far-off planet populated entirely by Goo Balls.

An additional chapter, located on the Moon, was initially planned for the European retail version of the game. This idea was put on hold as the developer felt they were rushing to finish extra content to justify the price, "If we release any additional content, we will make it available on all platforms, to all people, at the same time. No more of this 'region' nonsense".[8]

Development

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Ron Carmel and Kyle Gabler, founders of 2D Boy and creators ofWorld of Goo

World of Goowas developed by 2D Boy, a team based inSan Franciscoconsisting only of formerElectronic Artsemployees Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel. The game's development was started in January 2005[9]as a graduate student project at theEntertainment Technology CenterofCarnegie Mellon University.[10]Gabler created this initial prototype in four days and submitted it under the titleTower of Goofor the Experimental Gameplay Project at the university[11]as a response to the prompt "make something with springs".[12]

Carmel and Gabler estimated that development onWorld of Goolasted two years and cost US$10,000 of their personal savings, which included equipment, food, and rent.[13]Actual development was usually carried out incoffeehousesequipped withWi-Fi hotspots.

World of Goowas programmed using availableopen-sourcetechnologies, includingSimple DirectMedia Layer,Open Dynamics Engineforphysicssimulation,TinyXMLfor configuration files,Subversion,Mantis Bug Tracker,andPopCap Games Framework.[14][15]Allan Blomquist, a friend of Gabler and Carmel, was responsible forportingand optimizing the game forWiiWare.[16]

On July 6, 2010, 2D Boy,Capybara Games,andthatgamecompanystarted a program called the "Indie Fund",which aims to support game development, by helping independent developers become financially independent.

Release

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World of Goowas released both forWindowsandWiiWarein North America on October 13, 2008.[17]TheMac OS Xversion was released on November 2. TheLinuxversion was released on February 13, 2009.[18]After the initial release, 2D Boy announced a bonuspatchcalled "Profanity Pack", which would "[replace] the normal voices in the game with naughty words." The patch would be made available to users who pre-ordered the game.[19]The patch was never released.[20]

2D Boy decided against placingdigital rights management(DRM) protection on the PC versions, stating that "DRM is a futile attempt to preventpiracy,and it's expensive. Every game for which there is demand will becrackedand find its way onto the scene, so why waste time and money trying to prevent the inevitable? "[21]2D Boy later reported that between one in five and one in ten copies of the PC versions had been legitimately purchased.

For the game's European release in December, 2D Boy depended upon the community to translate and localizeWorld of Goointo the appropriate languages, includingDutch,French,German,ItalianandSpanish.[citation needed]During the 2009D.I.C.E. Summit,Nintendoannounced that it would publishWorld of Gooin Japan during the second quarter of 2009;[22]the game was released on April 21, 2009, under the titlePlanet of Goo(グー の hoặc tinh,Gū no Wakusei).[23]

World of Goowas made available through Microsoft'sWindows Games on Demandmarketplace as aGames for Windows – Livetitle on December 15, 2009.[24][25]World of Goowas also ported toiOS,toiPadin December 2010 and toiPhonein April 2011. On October 3, 2011, 2D Boy announced that they would portWorld of GootoAndroid,which was released on November 28, 2011. It was available to both Android phones and tablets with demo and full versions available.Tomorrow Corporation,formed by Gabler in 2010 along with his former EA colleagues Allan Blomquist and Kyle Gray, would develop and publishWorld of Goofor theNintendo Switchwhich was released in March 2017.[26]The Japanese version was later released in May 2017 by Flyhigh Works.[citation needed]

According to 2D Boy,Epic Gamesreached out to them to releaseWorld of Gooas a free promotional title on theEpic Games Store.The developers decided to use this opportunity to create an updated version for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems, incorporating changes and improvements made from the console versions. This includes supporting widescreen and higher resolutions that have become the normal since the game's original release, and stripping out the game'sdigital-rights managementto make it amendable tomodding.These updates will be offered free to users on other digital storefronts like Steam and GOG, with the patches to be released around the same time that the Epic Games Store promotion starts in May 2019.[27][28]Netflixreleased a remastered version on May 23, 2023, also available onGoogle Play Storeand Apple'sApp Store.It requires a Netflix subscription to play.[29][30]

Soundtrack

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TheWorld of Goosoundtrack was created by Kyle Gabler, who also designed, wrote and illustrated the game. It was released as a free download on January 20, 2009.[31]

The song "World of Goo Beginning" was created with the intention of resemblingLibertangobyÁstor Piazzolla."Regurgitation Pumping Station" was originally written for a friend's short film about going on a date with thedevil."Threadcutter" was originally written for a game calledBlowwhich Gabler made available on his site. "Rain Rain Windy Windy" was originally written for the soundtrack for a short children's film, commenting that writing children's music is difficult. "Jelly" was originally written for a short film about a virtual reality world. "Burning Man" was written for a friend's drama/mystery series. He made it by recording two friends singing single notes, and then using a keyboard to make it sound like a choir. "Cog in the Machine" was originally written for another game of his calledRobot and the Cities who Built Him.[31]

World of Goo Soundtrack
No.TitleLength
1."World of Goo Beginning"1:09
2."The Goo Filled Hills"0:25
3."Brave Adventurers"1:07
4."Another Mysterious Pipe Appeared"1:18
5."World of Goo Corporation"0:17
6."Regurgitation Pumping Station"3:40
7."Threadcutter"0:55
8."Rain Rain Windy Windy"2:45
9."Jelly"2:38
10."Tumbler"1:52
11."Screamer"1:36
12."Burning Man"1:49
13."Cog in the Machine"4:03
14."Happy New Year (tm) Brought to You by Product Z"0:55
15."Welcome to the Information Superhighway"1:56
16."Graphic Processing Unit"1:06
17."Years of Work"3:39
18."My Virtual World of Goo Corporation"1:05
19."Hello, MOM"0:06
20."Inside the Big Computer"2:21
21."Are You Coming Home, Love MOM"3:02
22."Ode to the Bridge Builder"1:25
23."The Last of the Goo Balls and the Telescope Operator"1:00
24."Best of Times"3:41
25."Red Carpet Extend-o-matic"4:04
26."World of Goo Corporation's Valued Customers"0:13
27."World of Goo Ending"1:09

Reception

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Both Wii and Windows versions ofWorld of Gooreceived critical acclaim, holding an aggregate score fromMetacriticof 94/100 and 90/100 respectively.[33][32]EurogamercalledWorld of Goo"Physics' latest, purest, and most brilliant gift."[39]IGNsaid of the Wii version "World of Goois an amazing WiiWare game that you simply must buy for this is exactly the type of software that needs both recognition and support ", finding only minor fault with the camera controls and lack of a level editor.[41]1UPcalledWorld of Goo"one of just a handful of truly excellent original games for the Wii".[37]Nintendo World Reportcriticized the "slow start" of the game, but otherwise praised it as "easily the best WiiWare game to date and, perhaps, one of the best this generation."[42]Resolution Magazine referred to it as "an instant classic", awarding it 90%.[44]Official Nintendo Magazineawarded the Wii version a score of 95%, claiming it to be "Virtually flawless".[43]The magazine also ranked it as the 83rd best game available on Nintendo platforms. The staff called it the best WiiWare game "by a long shot."[45]

World of Goohas won many awards. At the 2008Independent Games Festival,World of Goowon theSeumas McNally Grand Prize,Design Innovation Award, and Technical Excellence.[46]As a result, 2D Boy found publishers that previously had rejected them approaching them to publish the title.[47]It won Best Independent Game from theSpike TVVideo Game Awards show,[48]and won six Wii-specific awards and one for the PC, including Best Puzzle Game, Best Artistic Design, Best WiiWare Game, Best NewIP,Most Innovative Design, and Game of the Year fromIGN.[49]GameSpotawarded it as the Best Game No One Played.[50][failed verification–see discussion]TheAcademy of Interactive Arts & SciencesawardedWorld of Goowith "Outstanding Achievement in Game Design"(along with a nomination for"Casual Game of the Year") at the12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.[51]It was featured inEurogamer'stop 50 games of 2008 in the tenth slot.[52]Peter Moore,the head ofEA Sports,in a rant aboutFIFA 09being missing fromEurogamer'slist, commented that he was surprisedWorld of Goowas included up so high in the list, despite not having played it.[53]2D Boy responded by saying they were honored thatWorld of Goohad this much mainstream awareness, and that it derives sick pleasure from the "industry big-wig's indignant, self-righteous incredulity". In 2010, the game was included as one of the titles in the book1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die.[54]

Sequel

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Main article:World of Goo 2

2D Boy initially stated that they would not be producing a sequel.[55]However, in a November 2010 entry on the World of Goo blog, Kyle Gabler stated that "a secondWorld of Goois a possibility and something we would enjoy working on. "[56]

World of Goo 2,a sequel developed by 2D Boy andTomorrow Corporation,was announced atThe Game Awards 2023and was released on August 2, 2024.[57]

Notes

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  1. ^The last winter level, Product Launcher, has "happy new year" as its tagline. This is similar toNorthern Hemisphereseasons.
  2. ^"Lately, its output has been less than satisfactory." – Fly Away Little Ones, Little Miss World of Goo, World of Goo

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