{"id":268,"date":"2009-02-16T20:17:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=268"},"modified":"2023-11-24T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T20:32:16","slug":"world-of-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/world-of-goo\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Goo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272\" title=\"world_of_goo1\" src=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/world_of_goo1.png\" alt=\"world_of_goo1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I caught sight of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_of_Goo\">World of Goo<\/a> while browsing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slashdot\">slashdot<\/a> of all places. It turns out that a Linux version of it was recently made available, so I had to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The style reminds me a lot of Tim Burton&#8217;s movies.\u00a0 The gameplay is similar to fantastic contraption mixed in with lemmings.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve only played for a few minutes to get a feel for it, I suspect it gets a lot more challenging as you go on.\u00a0 The little bit I did play, impressed me enough to want to tell others about it.<\/p>\n<p>There are versions for <a href=\"http:\/\/worldofgoo.com\/dl2.php?lk=demo\">Linux, Mac and Windows<\/a> &#8211; as well as Wii.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got any interest in puzzle games, give this one a spin.\u00a0 Kudos to <a href=\"https:\/\/2dboy.com\/games.php\">2D Boy<\/a> for\u00a0 making a cool cross platform game &#8211; nice to see that a small team with a vision can still make a go of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught sight of World of Goo while browsing slashdot of all places. It turns out that a Linux version of it was recently made available, so I had to give it a shot. The style reminds me a lot of Tim Burton&#8217;s movies.\u00a0 The gameplay is similar to fantastic contraption mixed in with lemmings.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/world-of-goo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;World of Goo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}