World Of Goo

[The_Juggler]

I found a 3rd party tool called GooTool that supposedly allows you to do quite a lot of things, including adding custom levels. I've yet to try it, but it looks really cool.

I tried a few custom levels for World of Goo - some of them are just junk but some of them are intended for a whole higher level of player than most. Kind of like the custom levels for Portal, they're extremely well made and extremely difficult.

And yeah the soundtrack is a huge portion of the game's quality.



Much too often we focus on so called graphics.
"I don't care what the game is, so long as it has good graphics."
Well if you want to look at cool digital renderings watch one of the Transformers movies.

Design is completely ignored in video games these days and World of Goo has *tons* of it. Good design that makes a game look visually appealing trumps high end tech any day.


And above all things World of Goo is a game. Too many games these days are more of a visual experience than they are a game. I think some game designers have forgotten that they're supposed to be making games above all else.

[PsychoSnail]

And above all things World of Goo is a game. Too many games these days are more of a visual experience than they are a game. I think some game designers have forgotten that they're supposed to be making games above all else.

I agree. Of course, World of Goo has great graphics anyway. XD

[Zephyr]

The absolute, autonomous, freewheeling, grassroots, nonaligned, nonpartisan, sovereign, unconstrained, uncontrolled, unregimented games pack!
It's on Steam, and I got it, and most importantly, it was World of Goo in it! I've tried a few levels and might play through it when I have some free time.

[The_Juggler]

And above all things World of Goo is a game. Too many games these days are more of a visual experience than they are a game. I think some game designers have forgotten that they're supposed to be making games above all else.

I agree. Of course, World of Goo has great graphics anyway. XD

Well no it doesn't. World of Goo doesn't have any fancy schmancy oversampling, a dozen different kinds of anisotropic filtering, and DirectX version 17 support - all ran on a $2000 bleeding edge computer.

It's just graphically designed very well, and that beats any fancy tech.

And this is coming from a guy who does have a $2000 bleeding edge computer with my i7 processor and graphics card so big it doesn't even fit right in the case.

[rocket_thumped]

Played it, loved it, fucked the shit out of it.

[blue_tetris]

For semantics, I think Juggler is getting at the dichotomy between "Graphics" and "Design". "Graphics" is how much meat you have and the quality of the meat. "Design" is making a phenomenal filet mignon, garnished with subtle cocktail onions, and braised in a delicious cream sauce (even when you started out with Kroger brand beef, cocktail onions from behind the bar at Shitfacers, and a carton of weeks-old half-and-half). Graphics are the ingredients. Design is the dish.

Some game designers figure that just because they grabbed the top shelf ingredients, they automatically have a masterpiece dish. It's simply untrue.

Other game designers do the best they can with the ingredients at their disposal (but even the best chef can't turn wilted lettuce from last month/1997 into a delicious modern salad/game). *metaphor gets more jumbled, explodes into Gushers fruit snacks*

[chume14]

A friend gave it to me I never even realised you were meant to pay for it. It was kinda fun

You're on unsteady ground there, watch your step - LF

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I got that Steam pack for Audiosurf and Crayon Physics, but now I have World of Goo for two platforms! Multiplayer AND highscores! Oh yeah.