Comments on: Tastes So Goo-d: 2D BOY Interview

By: Marcelificus

Marcelificus — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:24:16 +0000

Excelente excelente, buena iniciativa D:

Saludos

By: karthik

karthik — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:04:07 +0000

Just played the demo.
World of Goo makes me happy.
And the music…. joy.

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:58:41 +0000

I too am wanting some help with havking the res up to higher standards but without the UI dropping off the bottom so I can finish a level. After 2 seconds fiddling I’m guessing it is to do with the res I’m setting being widescreen and not 4:3 – will try that later when I get home from work.

By: Paul Moloney

Paul Moloney — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:39:39 +0000

Not just Pontifex, but also the creator of that game’s followup, Armadillo Run. In fact, there appears to be an ‘omage to it in WoG, with the word “armadillo” being mentioned (tenuous, I know).

Bought it on Steam last night (I’m really a sucker for impulsive Steam purchases) and have had fun so far in the first three levels. The art design really does raise it to another level.

By: marmite

marmite — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:52:55 +0000

I love it. Pre-ordered it and got it a week ago! Well done guys.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to get it to work nicely in 1680*1050? I found the text file that you can edit, but at that resolution when you complete a level the continue flush thing dangles off the bottom of the screen.

By: Subject 706

Subject 706 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:53:27 +0000

Great game, nice to see some creativivty in a game for a change.

People who pirate this should be keel-hauled on a barnacle encrusted battleship.

By: Daniel Purvis

Daniel Purvis — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:14:25 +0000

In Australia, the Wii version currently isn’t being released by any major stores, including EB Games or Game, so there’s no way of getting hold of a copy unless you import or *gulp* pirate. Be interested to see, however, how many Australians even know the game is out there!

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:36:37 +0000

Also, if warez groups aren’t racing to crack it… are they racing to release it? I’d hazard a guess at no.

I would also love to know how many copies they have actually sold, but don’t really expect them to release that, much like Valve.

This transparency is a refreshing change of pace, much like Cliffski’s survey. If only some industry bigwigs would take a little more notice.

I’m also of the mind that I don’t know whether I should give this game to my brother or mum for example (who don’t play video games), who would no way buy it unless they tried it and miraculously decided to if they liked it enough?!? (though probably not) but then again it’s not like they would buy it in the first place. I’m conflicted! Is that good or bad??

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:30:39 +0000

I did like how they were tracking where the IPs were from for the people trying to activate the warez version. Funnily enough Argentina was in the lead followed by Israel, with other countries sitting at about 1 try a piece (inc USA, Britain and Australia iirc) Unfortunately they’ve removed their blog due to bandwidth issues right now though. – Will be very interesting to see how this goes.

There are other reasons for it not being torrented though I believe, first and foremost this isn’t a AAA title (well the wii version is I guess?) hence that is being torrented… secondly there isn’t much publicity around this (at least for a non-gamer person who doesn’t read review sites) and the sheer lack of size makes torrenting probably near pointless. I’d hazard a guess that rapidshare and megaupload are doing their parts?

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:25:50 +0000

I already have… it is a registration torrent site though, so I don’t know what they can do with that unless they manage to get a login quickly. It has been snatched 163 times so far apparently.

If it hasn’t hit more public trackers I suppose that is still a good thing?

By: John Walker

John Walker — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:31:30 +0000

Thiefsie – send the details of that to Ron at 2D BOY, as they’re following it all very closely. I’ve only seen the WiiWare version so far, so yours might be harder to find at this point.

By: Thiefsie

Thiefsie — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:47:21 +0000

The torrent site I looked at had the PC version.