If you pre-ordered World of Goo but never got the instructions for downloading your copy (may have been sorted into spam folders we hear…), you can download it here with your Magic Key: World of Goo: Chapter 1 Preview downloader.  If you never got your Magic Key, let us know here!

What a fun week, indie developers are elusive little suckers, so we tried to collect-em-all in photos. Some of them got away. Here are the ones that didn’t.

IGF 2008, Year of the Monocle. Edmund McMillen‘s unmistakable silhouette looks on.

Cactus just made 4 games in the time it took to take this picture. Joakim Sandberg, retro hero on the right, Kyle Gabler surrounded by Sweden.

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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!!!