2dboy.com — Lovers of both games and Free Open Source Software will be pleased to see that the popular indie puzzle game World of Goo has been released for Linux. It was designed by a small team of two ex-Electronic Arts developers, Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, who used their entire combined savings of $10,000.00 USD to create the gooey game
Feb 15, 2009 View in Crawl 4
nextFeb 15, 2009
I'll be pirating it, but that's because I have a boxed copy that's Windows only..so I think in this case, it's justified. :p
strangemanFeb 16, 2009
If you look at the linked website you'll see they've already sold quite some copies. There are some studies that prove it will be beneficial to offer a linux version of your game. You probably won't make as much cash as with the Windows version, but usually as much as with the mac version. At least enough to justify the development costs, which are low if you original code is portable enough. It took them three days to port the game to the Wii.
stevemaxFeb 16, 2009
Actually, since thise dumbphones run J2ME, there is probably more games for them than for Linux. Or for OS X. Or for the Xbox 360, Wii and PS3.Of course, this doesn't mean there are more than two that are worth a second look.
stevemaxFeb 16, 2009
@Agnostos"stereo type", rather than "mono type" or "surround type"?
launchpadttFeb 17, 2009
not to mention when you buy the linux version, you're really buying all the versions, so you get download links for win mac and linux.
bicepFeb 20, 2009
Bought a copy....Awesome game!!! These guys rock!!<a class="user" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2fT3X7zEvgZXfNLtfyvLlg?feat=directlink">http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/2fT3X7zEvgZXf ...</a><a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/World_Of_Goo_on_Linux_Great_Puzzle_Game_from_2dboy_com_20">http://digg.com/linux_unix/World_Of_Goo_on_Linux_G ...</a>Also wrote Mark Shuttleworth to get these guys some recognition and posted an idea on ideastorm to try to get this game bundled with OSes.<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/linux_unix/ideastorm_com_Bundle_World_of_Goo_with_Ubuntu_on_Dell">http://digg.com/linux_unix/ideastorm_com_Bundle_Wo ...</a>2D BOY - We need more developers like these guys!!Go GNU/Linux!!