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World of Goo, a serious classic that released on Linux back in 2009 is coming back with a little revamp.

Announced on the official Tomorrow Corporation blog post, developer Kyle Gabler goes into some detail about what's coming and yes, the update includes the Linux version too of course.

To be clear on it, there's no new levels or characters and a little joke about "no new battle royale deathmatch mode", this is what they're calling a "gentle remastering" done for fun. Something that's really great to see, as World of Goo is an absolute blast to play but it hasn't really aged well.

The original game ran at 800x600 and they say they've now doubled this, with it now running by default in a widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio instead of the 4:3 in the original. The framework to build it with was also replaced, so it should hopefully work nicely on modern Linux distributions too at whatever resolution you're on.

Sounds like it wasn't entirely easy work though, having to go over each image used by hand to tweak them. Along with that they've used "different high quality upscaling tools" and when they had the original source files those were used to make sure the higher resolutions do actually look better.

It should also be easier to mod it now too, as the assets and save files are no longer encrypted which is nice of them to do. Finally, there's some other graphical and UI improvements included that came with releases to other platforms like the Nintendo Switch.

The newer builds should be available everywhere "in the next few days", with those who purchased direct from 2dboy.com before 2014 getting it first (if you can find your original download link, look it up here).

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Pit May 1, 2019
An absolutely great game, brought to us (well, to me at least ) via Humble (when they were the spearhead pushing linux gaming, and still cared about DRM-free cross-platform). Really looking forward to the update, I absolutely love this game. And I never had any issues running it.

Lets see, if they really put that much effort in the 'touch-up' I'll probably buy it again on GOG.


Last edited by Pit on 1 May 2019 at 12:59 pm UTC
axredneck May 1, 2019
Quoting: soulsource... Bridge Construction...
But here you need to "construct the bridge while train rides across it, not before"
Beamboom May 2, 2019
This must have been one of the very first games I purchased on my Linux Steam client. A really good little game, it's a great concept and well designed, both in regards to mechanics and visuals.


Last edited by Beamboom on 2 May 2019 at 7:13 am UTC
Eike May 2, 2019
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Quoting: Avehicle7887I learned about this game back in the first Hunmble Indie Bundle, I never played but this might make me finally try it. I admit I'm not a very big fan of puzzle games.

Give it a try, additionally to the very special Tomorrow Corporation charme, it's also a dexterity challenge.
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