{"id":474,"date":"2009-03-08T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2009-03-08T09:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2009-03-08T09:11:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-08T09:11:36","slug":"the-wonderful-world-of-goo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"The wonderful world of GOO!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img alt=\"goo.jpg\" id=\"image492\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/goo.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When we were in the States, Michael introduced me to a game that he&#8217;d got for the Wii &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/2dboy.com\/games.php\">The World of Goo<\/a>.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t play it all that much when I was there, but the other week I realised that I still had a heap of Wii points (i.e. paid for credit) sitting there from when we installed the web browser on the Wii*, and they were just enough for me to download a copy.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had fun playing it so far, but what&#8217;s been surprising is that a couple of\u00a0 weekends ago, Bec sat for over an hour and a half playing it. That&#8217;s pretty unusual for her, so it must be pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>It is a pretty cool game.\u00a0 More of a mental challenge than anything. Hits the right balance of addiction and frustration.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s available for Windows, Mac and Linux as well as the Wii.\u00a0 Worth a look if you&#8217;re bored!<\/p>\n<p>* A side note here.\u00a0 On any other platform web browsers are being given away left right and centre, but you have to pay for one for the Wii? Hmmmm. Sucks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we were in the States, Michael introduced me to a game that he&#8217;d got for the Wii &#8211; The World of Goo.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t play it all that much when I was there, but the other week I realised that I still had a heap of Wii points (i.e. paid for credit) sitting there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}