This past Thursday we released a preview of chapter 1 to everyone who pre-ordered the game. After we fixed an installer problem that prevented the game from running (oops) things started to flow pretty smoothly. It was meant to be a “Thank you, happy Valentine’s day everyone!” but it turned out to be bigger than that.

The biggest surprise was the amount of encouragement and support that you guys sent our way. Thank you! How unexpectedly wonderful! It filled me with gratitude and joy. A bunch of people also started helping out with testing, sending in bug reports and suggestions… some really good ones, too. It’s been so helpful that we opened up the beta email list so that anyone can post to it and allowed everyone to subscribe (more info here).

Hope to see some of you at GDC next week… can’t wait!!!

The emails are trickling out.  Our hosting provider lets us send only 50 per hour, because if we sent more than that, spam would be profitable or something. Thanks to the brave first batch of people who got the game and found a horrible bug in our installer script – it is fixed now, so download again!

Our hearts swell with goo for those of you who have pre-ordered World of Goo so far! As soon as we can figure out how the the spam opt-in-mass-emailing technology works, we’ll be sending out preview copies of Chapter 1 today (where “today” is in pacific standard time, you Australians in the future!) to our beloved pre-orderers and those who pre-order in the next few days. So stay tuned, and keep a lookout, quite likely in your spam folder. If you still don’t get the email by tomorrow, check back here and demand goo!

ps. Also, audisurf is released for real, not just a valentine’s preview – go ride daft punk!