That fantastic World Of Goo, a contemporary traditional of a puzzle ’em up, will get polished up for the current day in a brand new free replace. Coming over ten years after the game’s launch, the replace brings assist for contemporary widescreen resolutions, artwork reworked to look higher at our shiny new excessive resolutions, much less bugginess on fashionable working techniques, interface enhancements borrowed from newer variations just like the Nintendo Switch launch, and different welcome tweaks. Loading it again up simply now, gosh, World Of Goo actually remains to be charming so I’m glad that returning is now much less of a trouble. Epic will probably be giving the game away free in just a few days too.
“To be super clear, there are no new levels, no new characters, no new battle royale deathmatch mode,” 2D Boy’s Kyle Gabler says. “This is just a gentle remastering we did for fun.”
Our former John (RPS in peace) nonetheless thought World Of Goo to be the best puzzle game as of 2015. Just booting it up immediately and listening to that music once more, not to mention beginning to construct constructions from sticky goo balls, delighted me anew. It’ll be nice to have this comfortably playable for an additional few years.
The replace lets World Of Goo run in excessive widescreen resolutions, moderately than a small and boxy 800×600. So it doesn’t look blurry, the devs have doubled the artwork’s decision utilizing a mix of upscaling instruments, hand-tweaking, and generally authentic supply recordsdata they nonetheless had entry to. If you don’t dig the way it appears to be like, hey, it has an possibility to make use of the unique artwork. The UI is refreshed primarily based on more-modern ports, so it ought to really feel much less 2008 too. They’ve additionally eliminated encryption from asset and save recordsdata, with Gabler saying they “hope this makes the game more open and friendly to mod.”
See the announcement for extra particulars.
This replace will roll out throughout totally different shops “in the next few days.” Right now it’s solely out there for individuals who purchased World Of Goo straight from 2dboy.com earlier than 2014; if that’s you, get rummaging in your e-mail archives in your outdated obtain hyperlink. Otherwise, wait a bit.
If you may’t keep in mind the place you got it or when you in some way don’t have it in any respect, hey, World Of Goo will quickly be free for keepsies on the Epic Games Store. You’ll have from this Thursday, May 2nd, by means of May 16th to seize it.
Tomorrow Corporation, the studio fashioned by 2D Boy artist and composer Kyle Gabler after co-founder Ron Carmel break up, are presently engaged on Internet ’em up Welcome To The Information Superhighway.
