Development
World of Goo was developed by 2D Boy, a team based in San Francisco consisting only of former Electronic Arts employees Kyle Gabler and Ron Carmel. Carmel and Gabler estimated that development on World of Goo lasted two years and cost USD $10,000 of their personal savings, which included equipment, food, and rent. Actual development was usually carried out in coffeehouses equipped with Wi-Fi hotspots.
World of Goo was programmed using available open-source technologies, including Simple DirectMedia Layer, Open Dynamics Engine for physics simulation, TinyXML for configuration files, Subversion, Mantis Bug Tracker, and PopCap Games Framework. Allan Blomquist, a friend of Gabler and Carmel, was responsible for porting and optimizing the game for WiiWare.
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