Goo - an abstract strategy game by Amorphous

This is Work in Progress video of our game "Goo". That means it's not finished, or representative of the final version. Not even close. We estimate another 4-6 months development (not including other issues slowing its release to market), so it should look a lot fancier then (the menu, especially, should be a better representation of a zooming interface than what you see here).

This is the video we sent to Microsoft in the hopes of getting the game onto XBox Live Arcade.

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Thanks to Scott for editing, and Justin for cleaning up sound.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• goo
• game
• aubrey
• hesselgren
• tommy
• refenes
• amoeba
• microscopic
• organisms
• experimental
• gameplay
• zui
• zooming
• interface

[Petr0vich13]

i play it all evening! its superb! VERY VERY attractive game... and sticky... like a goo!

=)))

[JunkerJames]

I wasn't aware it was released :/

[cocojumb0]

there is a game named liquid war which is very similar to goo

but goo looks better and the controls are different and interesting

[JunkerJames]

That's right. It's pretty cool. Actually hadn't heard of it when I first came up with the idea... it's just one of those coincidences.

And yeah, I think there's enough room in the "liquid game play" genre for more than a few attempts.

There's also a game called "Amoebas" in this year's IGF by a russian team. I wouldn't be surprised if they ALSO came to the idea independent of Liquid War or Goo.

[AlexanderKotliar]

Yes, I did. I get to know about Goo, when was going to submit Amoebas to IGF. Surfing Youtube (I haven't XBox360 joystick for PC to view Goo) I found Liquid Wars. It was realy a sorrow for me, becouse I thought that have invented the new gameplay. But this gameplay is evident and lying around us: I get my from plate of soup with a blobs of fat on its surface. Amoebas is at very beginning stage, while Goo is at final, and very impressive. So I wish You Good Luck for tomorrow judges' decision!!!

[JunkerJames]

Haha. Me and Tommy got exactly the same thing. I remember once we accidentally dropped some oil in a saucepan of water, and just stood there for 5 minutes, watching it.

And now I see weatherforecasts with their iso bars, or clouds in the sky, or swarms of insects, flocks of swallows, oil in puddles in the street etc. etc. and I can't help going back to thinking about the game.

Could drive you nuts. Sort of did, in my case :(

[metalgearrexlover]

IT'S CORTEZ IN THE BEGGINING

[adoomator]

That game looks so cool. Is it out yet? If so, how much does it cost? :)

[Ha1cyonDays]

He sounds like he ties women to train tracks.

[ethervagabond]

Why does this announcer person whisper the last word or two of every sentence he says?

[tommyrt]

Your voice sounds like the commentary from Cowboy Bebop OST,

[ronaldofootball7]

great idea but ur so annoying

[Rareamos]

More ideas:

You can use a Goo for make more goos, cuting it, if would use a specie of object for make the goo more giant or more count of goos, would have more posibilities for eat another goos, it can change the game in any case when you need more Goo.

A Special Goo can be maked for be invencible for a little time. When you eat it, the Goo may be transparent for diference it.

Well the game sound interesting, i like it the players need innovation like it.

[Rareamos]

I have a ideas for make more variate the game,

if you make obstacules, for move the goo, with gravity, the Goo fall and you can move it for go to eat another goos, may be used with vehicles or objects, for move the goo around of stage, with the objetive of use the goo for eat another goos using traps for evoid lose your goo in totally form. The difficult depend when the CPU's goo can eat you.

Another idea is use the goo for make more forms than another players in another mode called paint.