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Casual Game Design
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Casual Game Design

by Gregory Trefry
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 6m
English
CRC Press
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CHAPTER ELEVEN
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BOUNCING, TOSSING, ROLLING AND STACKING
World of Goo: From Toy to Game
The game World of Goo takes physics-based gameplay and expands it beyond the
feeling of a toy or the very simple games that often result from giving a playful
activity a goal. World of Goo was developed by 2D Boy for the PC and Nintendo
WiiWare. The game, designed by Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel, is based on a proto-
type called Tower of Goo that Gabler created as part of the Experimental Gameplay
Project at Carnegie Mellon University. Comparing Tower of Goo to World of Goo, you
can trace the development of a physics toy into a game.
The game ...
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ISBN: 9780123749536