Type in your friend's log-in name... you both connect, and can play thru levels together, either cooperatively, each building on the same structure with the same set of gooballs, or against each other, where you only see your friends structure ghosted behind yours as your building so you can see who is ahead.

Another interesting idea would be to play against a friend competitively but on the same board.  You could compete to be the one to wake up sleeping goo pools, so you control them instead of him.

The coolest idea, imo, tho would be to compete with a friend on the same board, and you can actually build on each others structures.  Here's the twist tho... while you can put gooballs in place that build on your friend's structures, he can pull them away at any time.  So, basically, you each have your own color goo .. you have, say, red, and your friend blue.  You can each only work with, and remove, the goo of your own color, even tho the different colors still attach to each other.  But, there's more!  How about a mechanism to capture goo balls from your opponent?!  Your goo balls stay your color as long as they have a chain of your color connection to your original 'base' (starting structures, on opposite sides of the screen).  So, if you then build one of your color immediately on the other guy's base, trying to interfere with his build, you would actually lose the goo ball, cus it isn't attached to your base but it is attached to his, so he 'captures' it.

Real-time competitive goo!

Agree! For the Wii version (this is kindof a secret), I think we'll do a cooperative mario galaxy sort of thing, where other players with other wiimotes can join in and work together. So up to xx people can play cooperatively. OF course they can always sabotage you too...

Is it not possible to replicate this on PC using USB mice? I remember plugging in 3 extra USB mice to my machine and having a kickass 4 way fight on Ragdoll Kung Fu, and plugging in an extra USB mouse and playing co-op on World of Goo would make my day. Not to mention plugging in 2 mice and trying to do the levels ambidextrously. (Brain confusion would be rife that day)

Anyway. The point is that it can be done on both consoles, and I would love you even more than I already do if it was.

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Agree! For the Wii version (this is kindof a secret), I think we'll do a cooperative mario galaxy sort of thing, where other players with other wiimotes can join in and work together. So up to xx people can play cooperatively. OF course they can always sabotage you too...


sounds more like elebits.  :D

The multiple mouse thing is an interesting option.  I never played much Ragdoll and never thought about playing it multiplayer like that.  I guess I just assumed the Windows API only tracked one cursor position regardless of how many mice were pushing input. 

If that's not the case then I'm going to start demanding two mouse games.... because that would rule.

I'm just hoping the ideas in my original post, if implemented, would be able to be played over the net, too.  I want 2 player play over IP, on PC.  :)

that would be awesome. This game could be a great multiplayer game.