hello citrons

there's an official goofans discord server

i can send you an invite if you want

I consider discord to be quite harmful and will not use it.

I think that a bridge to matrix, IRC, or XMPP should be considered.

There used to be a goofans IRC but it got replaced by the Discord, probably because the former died out.

Unfortunately I can't give helpful advice because I've never owned the CD-ROM version of World of Goo, but I wanted to mention that if you're modding the game, do not buy World of Goo. The new version of World of Goo has different file formats, making it incompatible for modding, and the old version isn't being distributed anymore.
I know some people have the installer for the old version, but it's an .exe file and considering you have Linux that's a bit of an issue (unless something like Wine would work).

ah, it's ok. I emailed support, and kyle himself has set me up with a download link!

well, I do want the updated version anyway. I think I can obtain the old version "somewhere".

is gootool unmaintained? it would be nice if it were updated to support the new file formats, especially since part of the update was meant to explicitly make modding easier.

wine does work. it just doesn't work as well as a native program.

what if there was a new one? (:

Glad to hear!

That's probably your best bet. Otherwise I could "help" you get the windows installer via email, if that works for you.

Gootool is not maintained as far as I'm aware, otherwise people probably wouldn't have an issue with it not installing properly due to some Java thing. And that's the ironic thing, the decrypting made it completely incompatible with Gootool and the editors. It's not a straightforward fix either because they also changed the cutscene file formats, and those are still encrypted. I recall someone on the Discord attempting to decrypt those files though, if that gets anywhere maybe they'll upload it here.

I don't think anybody would stop you, but it probably wouldn't become official either. I don't think it'd get much use because of that, but depending on who you ask maybe that's a good thing.

On another note, you may want to edit your posts to add new messages instead of creating a new post altogether.

that would be nice. I'm reachable at stuff@mondecitronne.com.

well, in that case, I might take a look at it.

I think you're right in that I probably would have trouble getting anyone to talk there.

You may wanna censor your address (i.e. replacing @ with (at), . with (dot)). I recall hearing something along the lines that it'll prevent spammers, but then again it might not make much of a difference. Just thought I'd mention.

stuff@mondecitronne.com is my public address. it's on my website. I do get spam sometimes, but it hasn't been a problem. I don't see it necessary to obfuscate it; I think people are more likely to email me if they can just copy/paste the address, haha.

it took me until now to actually get the download link (I had trouble receiving the email from the receptionistbot), but the download page has the 2008 and 2019 version for each platform. I was able to get the 2008 linux version!

Well, I guess my suggestion for checking the Internet Archive won't matter. (That's where I got my WoG copy.)

One ore note: I do agree with citrons in the respect that I'm not a big fan of the GooFans Discord, too. Mostly because of the multiple uses of the f-word, but that's another post...