World of Goo for iPad Now Available

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It would be neat if they allowed multi-touch to let you place several blobs at the same time, it would make it easier than the desktop version and would warrant specialised levels to take advantage of it.

The point where I realized that they knew what they were doing with the iPad design (and not just simply porting) was when I realized I could pick up a blob with one finger and scroll the world with another. In other incarnations of the game, you have to drag the blob to an edge of the screen to scroll in that direction.

The iPad port actually does this, look at their preview video and experience the full joy: http://vimeo.com/17390761

The movie that is associated with that clip looks very interesting (Indie Game The Movie). Nice find!

Can't wait for 2011 :).

The linux version will even allow you to plug multiple mice into your computer, and let you and several friends each move around blobs separately.

This works even if you don't have multi-pointer X set up, which is hella neat.

Is this just a direct port or are there special levels for the iPad, I already have a version or two of this and if it has extra content I might be worth a buy but if not... I think I'll leave it

Wow, this looks great - a game that can really make use of fingers if ever there was one. Super helpful for the World of MOM levels, I bet.

I'd definitely get it if I had an iPad... and didn't have the PC version. :)

Keep it up, 2dboy!

This is the first App that makes me want an iPad. The Wii version was amazing.

There are a lot of apps that are much cooler on the iPad, especially the generative art and particle physics ones. For example Art of Glow, Little Uzu, etc.

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