World of Goo World of Goo is a physics based puzzle / construction game. The millions of Goo Balls that live in the beautiful World of Goo don't know that they are in a game, or that they are extremely delicious. Installation Windows: Run WorldOfGooSetup.exe and follow the instructions. System requirements are Windows XP or Vista, a 1GHz or faster processor (2GHz recommended), 512MB or more of RAM, a 3D graphics accelerator, and DirectX 9. Mac: Copy World of Goo from your installation media to your Applications directory. System requirements are Mac OSX 10.4 or newer, a 1GHz or faster Intel or PPC processor (2GHz recommended), 512MB or more of RAM, a 3D graphics accelerator, OpenGL 1.1 or newer.. Linux: Download and install the software package (.deb or .rpm) suitable for your operating system. Alternatively, download the distribution-independent package (.tar.gz) and extract it. Minimum system requirements are a 1 GHz IA-32 compatible processor, 512 MB of RAM, Linux kernel version 2.6 (32 bit), hardware accelerated OpenGL drivers and ALSA or OSS compatible sound drivers. Controls Everything is controlled by mouse and the mouse button. You may press CTRL+M to mute / unmute sounds Languages Windows: The language selected in the installer will carry over into the game. Mac: The language setting must be edited by hand. After copying World of Goo into your Applications folder, right click (or CTRL+click) on /Applications/World of Goo in Finder and select "Show Package Contents." Then, navigate to the Contents / Resources / game / properties folder and open config.txt in any text editor. Change the value of the "language" param to select different languages. Valid language codes are "en" for English, "es" for Spanish, "fr" for French, "de" for German, "it" for Italian and "nl" for Dutch. For example, to change the in game language to French, the first parameter in config.txt should look like this: <param name="language" value="fr"/> Linux: the game language is inferred from the environment by default. Read `/opt/WorldOfGoo/linux-issues.txt` for instructions on how to override the selected language. Creators We're a two-person studio called 2D Boy (http://2dboy.com) Kyle Gabler - design, story, art, music Ron Carmel - programming, production Allan Blomquist - programming Maks Verver - programming Contact contact@2dboy.com More info: http://2dboy.com 3rd Party Libraries World of Goo uses the following open source libraries: Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) Copyright (c) 2001-2004, Russell L. Smith. All rights reserved. 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Linux Beta Testers Adrien Lafont de Sentenac, Alejandro Vera, Alexander Kopf, André Mossinato, André Nogueira, Arto Jalkanen, Aurélien Couderc, Bastien Bouclet, Bob Wiegand, Brent M. Rose, Brett Ellis, Camille Bissuel, Carl Blocker, Charles Huber, Cilyan Olowen, Craig Cooper, David Croft, David Danier, David Mohr, David Weisgerber, Dennis Wilfert, Douwe Gelling, Elliot Foster, Emmanuel Briche, Fabien Mairesse, Freddie Exall, Frederic Joly, Graham Inggs, Greg Yauney, Harald Linden, Harry Bullen, Henry Young, Ian Whitlock, Ignaz Forster, James Koehler, Javier García Díaz, Jean-Baptiste Butet, Joep Admiraal, Jonas P., Joseph Gwynne-Jones, Juan Chaves Roman, Julien Humbert, Julien Durillon, Krzysztof A. 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