Get Your Goo
Here’s a neat opportunity you might want to seize from 2D Boy Games.
Their World of Goo is a unique and quirky physics-based puzzle game that won both the Design Innovation Award and the Technical Excellence Award at the Independent Games Festival in 2008.
World of Goo’s success demonstrates not only the rise in popularity of independently-developed games, but also the emphasis on physics in several recent puzzle games. World of Goo is included in a survey of casual games guests can play on the first floor of Strong National Museum of Play, home of NCHEG. In addition, museum guests will soon have the opportunity to play the physics-based independent game, Crayon Physics (2008 IGF winner) in our National Toy Hall of Fame exhibit.
This week only, in order to celebrate the first birthday of World of Goo, 2D Boy Games is offering this game to the masses at the incredible price of “pay whatever you think it’s worth.” It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Wii, and we highly recommend this opportunity to try out a fabulous game at a great price.
- World of Goo
Cool. I think I’ll get it. I just find the“pay whatever you think it’s worth.” thing is a tad strange. I’m sure its worth $20, but if I can pay $0.01…. Am I an ass?
My friend and I downloaded this game for $5, and we both are hooked. It’s incredibly addicting!
I think the “pay whatever you think it’s worth” option is great. This is an independent developer, and the donate model gives buyers a chance to contribute more to show their support. It also gives a lot of insight into how much people are willing to pay for digitally distributed content.
This happened before with Radiohead’s In Rainbows and also Nine Inch Nails, with rousing success. Digital distribution models, at least with music, have always had an issue with how much to charge (is a song worth $0.99?). I think it’s a great testament to how awesome the Internet and digital distribution can be.
$0.01 is better than piracy!
True that Wes, lol. Good point.
Downloaded it for a price of…. And I’m really liking it so far. Very innovative. Nice to see something different. I hate it with a passion and love it at the same time, lol.