Leipzig! And some mini-goo updates
I’m (2D Kyle) going to be at Leipzig next week demoing World of Goo, trying to be the best booth babe I can be. Will any other indie devs be around? Come say hi!
Here’s what’s happening with World of Goo right now. (we should list stuff like this more frequently…)
- Translations into 5 languages (english, spanish, french, italian, german) is 91% done. I hope one day we’ll be able to do Japanese too…
- Cut-scenes: finishing up the very last end-of-game sequence, and the credits movie
- OCD: We’re putting in “OCD Flags” for each level, “Obsessive Completion Distinction”, received if you complete a level under under extremely difficult criteria (ie. extremely high ball count, very fast, etc)
- Playtesting: we’re having friends and family play through the whole game, on camera, so we can tune level difficulty, find out if objectives are unclear, confusing, etc. Thanks to the Flashbang guys for kicking this off!
August 14th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Which hall/booth are you going to be exactly at the GC?
Cheers
August 14th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Oh my god… You put near-impossible achievements in? My free time is going to be ruined! >_
August 14th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
“Translation” - what about Russian ?
August 15th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Yeah gimme more goooooooooooooo! The OCD stuff sounds cool but still I don’t understand the score some people reached on some of the first chapter level.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Bobbyballs: Check the forum. There you can find instructions/help for most levels.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Oh cool, changed my not-going-this-year to let’s-just-do-it. Where’ll you hang around? Business Center or somewhere at Nintendo’s setup?
August 15th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Hey dude, those achievments sound awsome, i have a feeling that the replay value on this just increased by about 5 million :)
August 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
I’m not sure which hall/room/etc we’ll be in, but I’ll try to post here when I find out - or, follow the sound of screaming gooballs!
August 18th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Hi!
I know, this is offtopic, but I couldn’t find a contact-adress and just can’t stand asking: Would you please port World of Goo to the Pandora?
Pandora is a nice linux-based, really open and powerfull
handheld console. It will probably release in November.
The community has high interest in indy-games and World of Goo just seems like a perfect startup-title for the console.
If you want to know the technical details of it, most info is available on openpandora.org
Pandoras ARM-core can be overclocked to 900Mhz permanently and the sgx can make use of both openGL ES 1.1 and 2.0
I would be very thankful for response.
Greetings,
Constantin
August 20th, 2008 at 7:23 am
Well, since the game will be released this summer, (as written in the blog) there is a maximum of 11 days (as of 20th august) until the game must be released, since summer ends 31th august. Also, for us who pre-ordered the game, it will be maximum 4 days (as of 20th august), since we’ll get the game one week before the official release.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:40 am
I’m very interested to hear that you’re taping the playtest sessions. It sounds like the sort of thing Valve do, which is reportedly one of the reasons for why their games are so good. It’s impressive that you guys are taking the time and effort to do something like that. I can’t wait for the release.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:52 am
I’m trying to organise a last-minute trip to Leipzig. (Didn’t realise it was so close by until now :P)
So, the event already started and all, do you know where you are yet?
August 21st, 2008 at 6:35 am
Yes, I’m in the activision section, the one that not is the activision/blizzard section. I’ll be there Friday, if you want to drop by.
August 21st, 2008 at 9:45 am
I saw Morten’s comment about “maximum of 11 days” and wanted to calm everyone’s excitement just a bit. Summer actually ends September 22nd, during the Autumnal Equinox.
I’m as excited about this as anyone, trust me, but I also want a nice stable release. As long as they keep us in the loop with updates like this, I’ll be happy.
August 21st, 2008 at 10:47 am
I’m probably going to be in Leipzig Sunday. Sooo… Are there any world of goo stands/2dboy people on Sunday?
August 21st, 2008 at 11:33 am
Hey Marius, I think saturday is the last day of GC? Friday (tomorrow) is the last day I’ll be around. If you’re able, you should stop by and maximize the score in every single level!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Actually, only the GC Business Center is open until Saturday. The regular “GC Games + Entertainment (public exhibition halls)” are open sunday as well.
So what’s the setup then? Are there a bunch of Wiis unattended which run different games, one of which is world of goo?
And yeah, I’ll probably try to get some nice scores, but Not on all of them. Some take hours :P
Going up: yes
Small divide: yes
Hang low: probably
Impale sticky: possibly
Ivy towers: If it hasn’t been done yet
Flying machine: has been done
Fisty reaches out: probably not
Tower of goo: Hell no, but I might beat all the other scores
Tumbler: Probably not, assuming you fixed the bug. I don’t know a good strategy yet.
Chain: Has probably been done
Ode to the bruidgebuilder: Think not
Regurgitating pumping station: No highscore to beat
Drool: Might beat the original highscore. Won’t go for optimum.
Fly away: Nah
I mean, I do like showing off, but I can play the same game at home :P
What have you got running btw? Beta1, beta2, or some fancy different Wii version we haven’t seen yet?
August 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Any idea on the WiiWare release time-frame? This is definitely one of my most anticipated titles for the service…
http://thefinallevel.blogspot.com/
August 21st, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Marius - I’m demoing the whole game, all levels.
Evan - We don’t have a precise date (not ours to set) but I will be trying to post updates like this one more frequently as everything comes together.
August 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 am
not buying this game any more, as you are not releasing it on wiiware in europe. How foolish.
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:38 am
This game in the version of Wiiware is divided
in chapters?
How much one chapter?
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
It was on my buy list but I’m not dumb enough to pay ~$20 more than USA people to play the same game with 5 more stages. I was really looking forward to World of Goo, but this Europe discrimination shit has made me ignore the game. I hope it really sinks here, so you both learn the lesson.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:47 am
“If you’re able, you should stop by and maximize the score in every single level!”
As I said, I won’t have the time. But if you send me all the levels for the PC, I’ll give you some values for the OCD achievements ;)
September 7th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I do hope you are also shipping/offering the game in Holland / The Netherlands
If you do, unless you want to target children, you need not translate at all.
For this kind of game it doesn’t matter much, but for story driven games we definately always prefer the language of origin.
You can’t translate culture.
October 15th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Marius - for Ivy towers and Thumbler - i completed both of their OCD, the trick is to leave a chain made of 2 Goos attached to the pump, they will dangle from it and wont fall off, then you can get all of your goos into that chain, afterwards release the bottom goo, and the other one will be sucked in as well.
works for any level with enough green goos.