A Love Letter to the World of Goo. Yay for Great Game Design!

Filed under Fun, from iPhone by Chad | 8 comments

I like me some video games.

I got my first game system when I was something like 5 or 6. It was an Atari 2600… since then I have pretty much always had a console of one sort or another. I still play them when I can, but most of the games these days just kind of leave me cold. I don’t like first person shooters, and can find playing online fun when it’s not in a round filled with 13 year olds. I do like RPGs (can’t wait for Diablo III), space shooters, RTS and a few other genres including sports games. However, mostly I play casual games on my iPhone these days or other similar format quick games. I really dig the play control possibilities on the phone, with Frenzic being a lot of fun to play recently. I also recently found 99 bricks online, that is a really fun twisted take on Tetris and absolutely worth checking out.

I have a Wii. Yeah, I know, not very hard core… but you know what, a lot of the games on the system are just fun! I just picked up the WiiWare title “World of Goo“. Pure awesomeness. Have you tried it out? If you don’t have a Wii, you can get it on your Mac, PC and I think even Linux… too cool.

Anyway, I have designed and built a few games over the years. Mostly Flash games, and little things like that, but I do appreciate fine game design. It is partially for this reason that World of Goo and I connected. There is just so much attention to detail in this game that it’s tough to overlook. The are, animation, sound, physics, everything. Amazing!

I was really happy to come across this video today about the same thing. This clip is a thorough dissection of the design and thought that went into the World of Goo. Watch and then be prepared to lose a few hours playing this addictive little puzzler.

Design Tour – World of Goo from David Rosen on Vimeo.

Seriously, just too much fun!

Posted on December 14, 2008

8 comments

1. Dec 21

   I like the adventures of fancy pants man.

2. Dec 21

   Fancy pants
   Seriously, just too much fun!

3. diamondTearz Dec 22

   I’m glad you posted this. I bought World Of Goo on Friday but couldn’t quite figure it out with a 4 year old “helping” out-loud so I went on to midnight bowling. I’ll give it another try tonight.

4. aSKer Dec 30

   Very interesting, i didnt know about this game…

5. Dimagrire velocemente Jan 6

   My bros has a mac and he has this videogame. I throw a look at it and i think it’s amazing. Glad there is a version for PC too. Gonna get it soon.

6. Photoshop eSeM Jan 10

   I personally love world of goo, Although a bit repetitive, the art direction and such is spot on. They somehow turned a simple game, about the same thing over and over, Into a story that you’re curious about.

7. Apr 8

   Very interesting, i didnt know about this game…

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