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''[http://www.worldofgoo.com/ World of Goo]'' is an indie [[Puzzle Game]] by, essentially, [http://2dboy.com/ two guys], with some help. In it, the player constructs intricate structures from intelligent globs of goo, with the deceptively simple goal of leading the remaining free members of the swarm to each level's exit pipe. Deceptive, because this two-dimensional world is [[Malevolent Architecture|contrived to put as many highly varied obstacles into your path as possible]].

Do not confuse with [[Word of God]], even though it may apply.

 

* [[Alertness Blink]]: The '''!''' of newly-awakened gooballs.

* [[Alice and Bob]]: "Alice and Bob and the Third Party"

* [[Bottomless Pits]]: Present in some levels.

* [[Brick Joke]]: At the end of the first world you send a tower of goo with eyeball balloons into the sky. They later appear at the end in space.

** Also, in the same chapter, if you try to get MOM to erase the cookies concerning your personal data, she accepts, then informs you that they may in fact not have been entirely deleted, and... you're back to the beginning of the discussion tree.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: It would be difficult to tell the different species of goo apart without this.

* [[Cosmetic Award]]: The very-appropriately named "OCD" goals of each level.

* [[Cutscene]]

* [[Cyberspace]]: "Information Superhighway," an entire chapter dedicated to programming jokes and [[New Media Tropes]]

* [[Dialogue Tree]]: In very unique, spoiler-y circumstances. Given a fourth-wall-bending [[Lampshade Hanging]].

* [[Dem Bones]]: One species of goo confuses the Sign Painter as to whether they're "alive... or dead. Probably polite to pretend we don't notice." These skull-shaped goo are the only species invulnerable to the ubiquitous [[Spikes of Doom]].

** And also, MOM, an [[Google|uber-powerful search engine with suspicious policies regarding privacy and user's personal data.]]

** Along with a guy in the iPad version who says that there used to be a great market, only it fell apart because everything dropped to 99 cents. Hmm, [[Macintosh|who does that remind us of?]]

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: A sinister, polluting, extinction-causing [[Mega Corp]] versus a crazed, identity-stealing spambot.

* [[Fan Translation]]: 2DBoy relied on fans to translate the game to different languages. Results were good.

* [[Gainax Ending]]: Every chapter.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: The goo balls often mention game-related facts, according to the sign pianter and the narrator.

* [[Our Time Travel Is Different]]: Time bugs.

* [[Real Is Brown]]: Parodied -- after updating the "graphics card" in Chapter 4, most of the subsequent levels contain nothing but grays, browns, and bloom.

* [[Puzzle Pan]]

* [[Scenery Porn]]: Can venture into this in some levels.

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: You don't have to burn the man to complete the level. Or sacrifice any of the goo balls in Red Carpet level. Since it's a physics-based game, people have discovered tricks to break some physics in his game to allow players to get way above OCD requirements of some levels.

* [[Shareware]]: The PC demo allows you to play through the entirety of the first chapter with no restrictions imposed, but you will need to actually buy the game to continue on. The Wii demo doesn't count as shareware since you cannot save and it automatically terminates at a certain point.

** For one, the [[Puzzle Boss]] flash game ''[[You Have to Burn The Rope]]'' is sent up with the sever-the-overhead-support level "You Have To Explode The Head"

** The introductory text for the fourth level contains a shout-out to ''Armadillo Run'', another indie puzzle game with a similar premise. This borders on a [[Lampshade Hanging]]: the sign in that same level mentions an armadillo for no apparent reason.

** There are also shout-outs to non-games: for instance, the above-mentioned [[Dialogue Tree]] includes the classic [[Glory Days]] exchange from the film ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]''.

** [[Memetic Mutation|They tightened up the graphics in level three]]

** A sign in "Ode to the Bridge-Builder" references the song "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson. Also Bridge Builder is one of the Chroniclogic's physics-based construction series. ODE is actually a physics engine ''World Of Goo'' is largely based on.

** One of the loading messages is [[Electronic Arts|"challenging everything."]]

* [[Timed Mission]]: "Super Fuse Challenge Time"

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: More like Videogame Cruelty ''Necessity''. Not only the fate of the poor Matchstick Goo balls, but levels like "Genetic Sorting Machine" and "Red Carpet"... just, ''"Red Carpet"...''

 

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