A Few Things

Posted by DesertFox on Oct. 23, 2008, 12:12 p.m.

I am here to talk about a few things - a few games I've played recently, a few things I've been working on, etc.

First, and most important, everyone needs to play World of Goo.

It is awesome. Sadly it is also very short, but it is still very worth it. So if you have some spare cash and are willing to spend it on a short game, World of Goo is a very good choice. Basically, use blobs of goo to build structures to reach an exit pipe! Beautiful graphics, wonderful music, and a strange storyline with an awesome ending cutscene. I definitely recommend World of Goo.

—## A few crysis spoilers, skip if you don't want to know ##–

–## Basically, Crysis's ending sucked ##–

Second, Crysis. the game ending was a bit of a letdown compared to the rest of the game. It was too abrupt. One minute you're nuking an island and there's so much fighting going on, and then your fighting an alien ship, and are evacuating from a sinking battleship, and then *WHAM* GAME ENDS! And not only does it end, but it ends with an extremely obvious ploy for a sequel. It really pisses me off.

Good game though, aside from the ending

—## End Spoilers ##–

Anyways, sort of related to World of Goo, I decided to check out verlet physics. Here are my results (1 night of programming :D):

It works pretty well, but it needs to be tweaked.

Also, something I've almost finished:

Yes, its shiny, no you can't play it yet.

Also, I want one of these:

I also feel like doing this sometime soon.

I think that is all for now.

Comments

Rolf_Soldaat 16 years, 2 months ago

What is it that you want to hide?

PY 16 years, 2 months ago

Yeah, crysis' ending kinda sucked :(

Quietus 16 years, 2 months ago

the verlet physics look quite interesting. what language did you use?

dront 16 years, 2 months ago

Those books are old =P

Cesque 16 years, 2 months ago

I played World of Goo demo - pretty fun, but it had its shortcomings, like you always got the "Goo factory opens" cutscene after replaying a mission that triggers it. Annoying.

frenchcon1 16 years, 2 months ago

I MADE THAT HOLLOW BOOK WITH THE EXACT SAME INSTRUCTIONS ON THE EXACT SAME SITE IN YEAR 7 (4 years ago)! :O :O :O

Grand-High Gamer 16 years, 2 months ago

I played the original tower of goo. It was fun.

RetroX 16 years, 2 months ago

Never heard of World of Goo, but for some reason it reminds me of de Blob.

bendodge 16 years, 2 months ago

Wow, I just discovered that I've lived a life deprived of hollow books! Now I simply must make one. Hmm, someone in the comments suggested a dremel tool.

Cpsgames 16 years, 2 months ago

If I had a hollow book I would hide a smaller hollow book inside of it, and within the smaller one I would hide a taco. Forever.