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World of Goo iPhone submitted to the App Store, to be a universal app, 59p for 24 hours

'out soonish!'

World of Goo iPhone submitted to the App Store, to be a universal app, 59p for 24 hours
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When indie classic World of Goo his iPad earlier this year it was an instant hit. 2D Boy's Ron Carmel told Pocket Gamer it was "by far" his favourite version of the game, and it went on to win in the iPad Game of the Year in the Pocket Gamer Awards, as well as appearing top in Metacritic's recently launched iOS section.

An iPhone version was promised, and it doesn't look too far off. Posting on its blog, 2D Boy has revealed that World of Goo iPhone is in submission, and should be “out soonish!”

The good news doesn't stop there. It's only fair to deliver the rest in 2D Boy's own words:

“We realized after the fact that the way we set pricing for the iPad version wasn’t very friendly to fans and early adopters (started at $10, lowered to $5 after a month when we realized $10 was too high). Having learned some lessons from our first App Store release, we decided to do things in the most transparent and fan-friendly way possible this time around.

“The iPhone version of World of Goo will be priced at $2.99 in the US (and the usual equivalents elsewhere). BUT, it’s going to be discounted to $0.99 for the first 24 hours after release as a way to say thank you to the early adopters.

“Additionally, we thought the most fan-friendly thing to do with the iPad (HD) version is to make it universal. So if you already bought the iPad version, you will essentially be getting the iPhone version for free. Bon appetit!”

Of course, this means the iPad version will also come down in price, so this is good news for iPad owners as well.

One other thing worth noting: shortly after releasing World of Goo on iPad 2D Boy changed the name to World of Goo HD to maintain iPad labelling conventions. Now that it's a universal app that suffix will presumably disappear in the next update.

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Rob Hearn
Rob Hearn
Having obtained a distinguished education, Rob became Steel Media's managing editor, now he's no longer here though.