2DBoy's next game is WiiWare title

By Tom Bramwell Published 21 July, 2009

Derived from past experiments.

World of Goo developer 2DBoy has said that its next full game is a WiiWare title also derived from its Experimental Gameplay Project output.

"The three of us are cooking up a new game for WiiWare, currently 'in the works'," Kyle Gabler told Nintendodpad (thanks Offworld).

"We haven't mentioned anything about it to anyone, but here's a clue - the new game from the three of us is based on one of the experimental games from our past."

The three of us, in this case, also includes one of Henry Hatsworth's designers, Kyle Gray, and World of Goo programmer Allan Blomquist.

The fact Gabler and company are heading back to their experimental roots should come as no surprise, given that the fabulous World of Goo (check out our fawning PC and WiiWare reviews) began life as Tower of Goo.

The Experimental Gameplay Project, founded by Gabler and Gray, sees a group of friendly developers do battle on a monthly basis, each spending up to seven days making a small game.

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Comments (9) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Charlie_Miso #1 3 years ago

    Guess there is money in WiiWare for these guys. Good on 'em.

  • the_mtfr #2 3 years ago

    Here's hoping for a multi-OS PC release too, as Goo went well on Linux.

  • LazyDan #3 3 years ago

    IT SHOULD BE ON THE PC SO I CAN PIRATE IT BECAUSE AS A PC USER IT IS MY RIGHT TO TAKE THINGS FOR FREE.

    Reading that news about World of Goo being pirated some ridiculous amount of times (derived from the sheer amount of people posting high scores vs their actual sales) was one of the most depressing gaming stories of last year.

    I hope it's WiiWare only for that reason - even though even WiiWare can be easily pirated to buggery these days.

  • Golgo #4 3 years ago

    What's Ron Carmel (the original programmer) up to?

  • UncleLou #5 3 years ago

    I hope it's WiiWare only for that reason

    Slap in the face for 50% of their customers then. World of Goo sold extremely well for an indie game. And everyone might as well cancel software support for the DS.
    Edited by 2 at 21/07/09 @ 10:58

  • jaguarwong #6 3 years ago

    Great news.

    After a painfully slow start Wiiware is starting to have a solid line up with three or four exceptional games. (World of Goo is probably the best of those.)

  • siro #7 3 years ago

    UncleLou: I don't understand your comment. What's the relation to DS?

  • UncleLou #8 3 years ago

    UncleLou: I don't understand your comment. What's the relation to DS?

    LazyDan's suggestion is to not support platforms with rampant piracy regardless of the sales. I just took the idea one step further.

  • THATinkjar #9 3 years ago

    Game developer in "new game is based on something we've done before" shocker.