{"id":1956,"date":"2008-10-22T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2008-10-22T08:03:54","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:03:54","slug":"world-of-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"World of Goo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-A_JfkzPwww&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-A_JfkzPwww&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/code><\/center><\/p>\n<p>People have been sending me links to this game for a while now, and I finally got around to downloading the demo.  Half an hour later I&#8217;d bought the game.  I&#8217;ll be buying it again &#8211; a second time &#8211; for WiiWare tomorrow.  I do so without the slightest hesitation.  I am, in fact, happy to do so.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have a more complete review of the game later, but allow me this quick bullet-list of cogent informational tidbits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No DRM. Region-free.  Just download and play wherever.\n<\/li>\n<li>Only $20.  An irresistible price-point.\n<\/li>\n<li>Fun and endlessly innovative.\n<\/li>\n<li>Indie game made by a two-man design team, the likes of which has not been seen since the classic &#8220;<a href=\"?p=1792\">A Guy and His Buddy<\/a>&#8221; design teams of the 80&#8217;s.\n<\/li>\n<li>Will run on &#8220;any computer less than 5 years old&#8221;.\n<\/li>\n<li>This is the first thing I&#8217;ve encountered in two weeks which has been capable of prying me away from City of Heroes.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please, I invite you to wreck your productivity by getting the <a href=\"http:\/\/2dboy.com\/2008\/10\/15\/demo-of-world-of-goo-available\/\">demo<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been sending me links to this game for a while now, and I finally got around to downloading the demo. Half an hour later I&#8217;d bought the game. I&#8217;ll be buying it again &#8211; a second time &#8211; for WiiWare tomorrow. I do so without the slightest hesitation. I am, in fact, happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-world-of-goo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}