Comments on: Year Of Goo

By: Jake L

Jake L — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:46:05 +0000

Baahh, total ripoff. The concept is the same. He expanded the idea.. When i first saw the video I thought it was made by the same people. Liquid wars was a really original game, and this is just making profit of the idea.. Maybe i’m wrong and there was a game like this before.. Not just surrounding the enemys to kill them. Bah, pathetic.

By: jayne

jayne — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:14:39 +0000

LOL! no gaming addicts here then ;)

By: Solrax

Solrax — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:13:32 +0000

I don’t know about Liquid Wars, but the gameplay mechanic of surrounding the enemies by “drawing” to capture them goes all the way back to the old Atari Quantum arcade game from the 80′s

http://www.gamearchive.com/Video_Games/Manufacturers/Atari/quantum.html

That game used a trackball to do it, and was vector based. I don’t know why the mechanic hasn’t been used much since, it was a lot of fun.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:16:28 +0000

That was my first thought too, but it’s really not. The techniques required are quite different, and the AI ecology alone makes this its own beast.

By: faelnor

faelnor — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:46:18 +0000

Liquid War ripoff. Great.

By: Charcoal

Charcoal — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:40:46 +0000

The 360 controller worked fine, but then I do have XNA 2.0 installed.

The game didn’t work so well. Well, it ran and played fine, but I think my Nvidia 6200 kinda let the shader stuff down…

By: Andrew Armstrong

Andrew Armstrong — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:32:59 +0000

I found it to be pretty frantic (not relaxing at all, despite the music in that trailer), since I wasn’t very good at it when I tried it at the IGF. It has a useful ability to swap you and your enemy if you do happen to become almost trapped :)

Don’t own an Xbox 360 so am unlikely to play it again soon though.

By: Yhancik

Yhancik — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:11:13 +0000

Well curse Xinput ! :(

By: Sucram

Sucram — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:06:53 +0000

Just about works, though screen flickers educing epilepsy.
(Vista 32bit, wired 360 pad, HD3870)

Looks like they don’t intend to release the final game on PC, so doesn’t seem like much chance of it being polished up.

From my brief try, game itself seems like a fun bit of tech, but not much more .

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:40:06 +0000

Hmmm.

360 wireless pad works a charm.

My goo and enemy’s go are invisible = game unplayable.

One day they’ll release a beta that works. ONE DAY.

By: Freelancepolice

Freelancepolice — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:18:17 +0000

Looks a little like liquid wars