This all helps the game create a sense of personality all its own, only recaptured in Gabler’s later projects, and it makes the main puzzle gameplay more enjoyable in the process.
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Even the art has an ugly yet cute quality to it, never going into full cynical satire while remaining critical of various aspects of modern life. The environmental and economic commentary is very blunt, but in a charming and quirky wrapping, complete with cute self-aware jokes and fun alliteration that humanizes the world and everyone living in it. Little living goo blobs start to venture through the world, reaching for odd pipes littered through the land, and its eventually revealed that the powerful World of Goo Corporation is gathering the goo blobs to create energy sources and different commercial products (a thinly veiled commentary on the oil industry and crass consumerism). The game’s narrative is expressed like you’re being read a story book, with bits of writing mixed in during stages given by signs created by the mysterious sign painter. It was a perfect storm, further strengthened by the novelty of the game itself, both in its mechanics and its very anti-capitalist personality shaped by Gabler’s art and writing. The end result was a wild success, getting strong word of mouth not just through the game’s quality and the novelty of being an independent release on the Wii’s online store, but also for refusing to put in DRM during a time when that practice was just starting to become a major controversy in the gaming world. Created by a small team, 2D Boy, led by two dissatisfied EA employees named Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, World of Goo took two years, roughly $10,000 dollars, and a lot of coffee shop visits to finish. Posting unmarked spoilers will result in removal and warning, and posting spoilers with malicious intent will result in a ban.World of Goo is, without a doubt, one of the single most important modern indie games, released in 2008 and one of the first to kick off the 2010s indie boom. Please report posts containing spoilers unless they are hidden using the following method or are inside a thread clearly labeled as containing spoilers. If you want to promote without participating in the community, purchase an ad. For more information, see the self-promotion on reddit FAQ. Some promotional submitting (posting your own projects, articles, etc.) is permitted, but it must be balanced out by a much greater level of non-promotion participation in reddit - the rule of thumb is no more than 10% of your submissions may be promotional. Promotion must be kept within acceptable limits.Follow all specific content restrictions.No off-topic or low-effort content or comments.No personal attacks, witch hunts, bigotry, or inflammatory language.No content primarily for humor or entertainment.Questions likely to generate discussion.Want to schedule an AMA with us? Read our guidelines for more information! To see previous AMAs, click here. New to reddit? Click here! Subreddit Calendar Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers.įor examples of quality discussion posts we'd like to see in our subreddit, please review this page.įor an in-depth explanation of our rules, please review our rules page. The goal of /r/Games is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. If you're looking for "lighter" gaming-related entertainment, try /r/gaming! Please look over our rules and FAQ before posting. r/Games is for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions.
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