Friday, October 24, 2008

Gooey Fun...

Am currently totally loving 'World of Goo'. A really simple, extremely intelligent game. The kind of thing, like Lemmings and Sim City, which is a work of genius....


You control a group of blobs of goo. You can drag them around and join them to each other to build structures, which your other goo balls will swarm over. The aim is to build a way for your goo balls to get to the exit (a pipe). The cool part is the physics of the whole thing. The links between the balls are kind of elastic and bend/stretch as more weight is applied (different kinds have different properties). So you could find yourself building a tower, only to see the whole thing collapse sideways because the balance is off... Its hard to express just how cleverly this is used in the game. It is totally intuitive and immersive. It is also made even better by the kind of crazy design of the whole game.

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