World of Goo Update Time!
World of Goo will be finished THIS SUMMER. :) The precise release date depends on whenever our publishers think is best, offset by mysterious submission processes, humor translation, and floating point rounding rules. But here’s what I do know:
1. We got through ESRB with a rating the whole family can enjoy! Muahahaha.
2. We got a brave new 2D Boy Paul to help look for bugs, and make sure all the Goo tastes just right.
3. Everything is getting translated into 5 languages: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German
4. There were some rumors, so just to confirm: Yes, the Wii version will have multiplayer co-op play in every single level. Additional players can join in or leave at any time. We have not tried (yet) on any child specimens, but I think this will be a very good mode for parents playing with offspring.
5. We submitted an early test submission to Nintendo so they can let us know ahead of time if we’re missing anything, spelling Nintendo wrong, etc.
6. We’ll likely be doing a final round of beta. I’ll post more about beta volunteering on the forum a bit later when the beta builds are ready.
Brought to you by the letter E!
June 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Hot! I look forward to a firm release date, so I can make a chain out of construction paper and tear off a link every day. Good luck with the final work!
June 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
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June 25th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
hope ya left room for German text…. das words are long ya!
can’t wait to play!
June 25th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Oh man, I’ve been waiting for this!!!! The first chapter had amazing character.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:29 am
There’s reports on some Nintendo news sites that the Wii World of Goo is no longer going to be on WiiWare, and it will be a full retail release instead? (at least in Europe…)
June 26th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Great news!
Can´t wait to taste second chapter ^_^
June 26th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Wait…what? No Coop happiness for PC? :( Awwww….
Might not be practicable, but…..maybe it could have had its uses….difficult levels that could only be solved by 2 or 3 ppl working together…would have been fun.
Ah well…at least the release date sounds real close.
June 26th, 2008 at 9:37 am
That’s good to hear! Is that a hint of a mid July release for the Wii?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Nice with a planned release this summer. Really looking forward to the complete build!
June 26th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Hey, if it were a practical thing to plug in multiple mice to a pc, we’d love to do PC multiplayer too!
June 27th, 2008 at 4:23 am
As i’ve said on the forums, I’m sure ragdoll kung fu used multiple USB mice.
I, however, have no idea how the interfacing actually works, which makes mine the ramblings of a poor, poor idiot.
June 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
News FTW!
June 28th, 2008 at 12:24 am
gimmeh the game already >:D
June 28th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Kyle Said: Hey, if it were a practical thing to plug in multiple mice to a pc, we’d love to do PC multiplayer too!
you CAN! It just all acts as 1 mouse. :’(
July 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
>Hey, if it were a practical thing to plug in multiple mice to a pc, we’d love to do PC multiplayer too!
Kyle, didn’t you ever play some casual games with MouseParty™ technology? Big Kahuna Reef, or, perhaps, Ricochet? It’s megapractical. :)
Check this out: http://www.mouse-party.com
I really don’t know what’s with that “™”, but it could be really [really, really, really] cool to have coop on PC, and hey, it IS possible… Maybe some patches later, eh? ;)
July 9th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Linux will get multipointer-support with the next X-release. Is there a chance for a patch or is linux-coop out of reach now?
July 10th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Here’s a link to some open source libraries which enable multiple mouse use under windows XP: http://jstookey.com/arcade/rawmouse/
I would gladly wait a month longer if that meant we could use multiple mouses. I hope you guys will check out the feasibility :)
September 8th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Hellooooo!? *knock knock* IT’S SUMMER!!! And guess what? NO WORLD OF GOO!!!
What’s going on here? I’ve been waiting for months now for this game to come out and now I’m sitting here in front of my TV on the Wiiware channel and no World of Goo has come out yet! I’ve been saving my point for that specific game becuase I’m been so stoked about it.
I really hope it comes out soon ’cause I’m getting really bored fartin’ around the house gooless!