Prizes
1st: $150 in GameStop gift cards
2nd: $100 in GameStop gift cards
3rd: $50 in GameStop gift cards
Edit: The contest is now concluded and the results are posted over here.
Later this week, GameGround is launching their public beta to the world, but they're inviting GooFans over now for exclusive early access. In addition, they're running a special contest just for members of this site!
GameGround is a lightweight personalized gaming app that enhances your games and connects players of all types. It learns not only what you're playing, but also what you're achieving on your PC, Xbox and any website. This enables new missions, rewards, high score incentives and ways to share success to prove you’re the best amongst your friends.
For World of Goo, they've created a new layer of missions and statistics. Their technology will help you keep track of your fastest level completions, highest towers and other cool metrics!
We're going to be giving away $300 in GameStop gift cards to the top Goo players.
The Official GameGooGround Beta Program
Starting this Monday (November 15, 2010), compete against other GooFans for your chance to win.
In order to qualify:
- Sign up to beta.gameground.com (if you haven't already).
- Come back here to GooFans, edit your profile, go to the GameGround tab, and enter your GameGround username (see image to the right).
- Complete ALL the World of Goo missions.
- Play other games on GameGround, earn power and level up.
Prizes
The players with the most overall power who have completed all of the World of Goo Missions by 12:00 PM noon EST on Monday, November 22nd will be the GameGooGround champions.
First place: $150 in GameStop gift cards
Second place: $100 in GameStop gift cards
Third place: $50 in GameStop gift cards
Some missions are very hard and may not be achievable during the week. In the event that not all missions are completed, the player with the most missions completed will win. In the event of a tie, the highest overall GameGround XP will win.
In addition we'll also add a special gadget to your GameGround profile to show that you are, in fact, the World of Goo champions.
If that wasn't enough, all entrants will also receive a special blue GameGooGround badge right here on GooFans, and the three winners will get a gold one.
That's it!
Conclusion
On Monday, November 22nd, we're going to tally up everyone who's completed all the Goo missions and then rank them according to their overall power. Throughout the week we'll post some helpful tips about easy ways to earn power and level up.
GameGround is still in beta, so if you encounter any problems please give them a shout. They'd love to hear your questions, suggestions, comments, and feedback here. For the moment, GameGround only support Windows.
Join us on GameGround! beta.gameground.com
Good Gaming!
Promoter: GameGround, Inc. Void where prohibited.
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Sun, 11/14/2010 - 19:35
I'm having a problem. Even though Game Ground is installed, as well as World of goo (from Disc, not Download or Linux), GGG can't detect it. Any ideas? I have posted on the help section.
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Sun, 11/14/2010 - 21:56
Best of luck to everybody! It's kinda glitchy at this point, so don't get overfrustrated with it... it'll take some time to get all the kinks worked out (that's what beta testing is for, right?). Now GO GOO!
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Mon, 11/15/2010 - 02:38
Looks like a great contest! What kind of missions are there?
And just to clarify: this is for Windows only, right? Or does this run on Linux or Mac OS too?
Mon, 11/15/2010 - 04:53
Eh guys! Thanks for joining the contest
Good luck!!!!
MOM4Evr: Yeap, it's a beta indeed - we're working hard to spot and solve the remaining problems. Thanks for your understanding!
Soultaker: Missions related to in-game completions like finishing a specific level in a specific number of moves, reach a specific Tower Of Goo height, etc. It works under Windows only for now, yes.
James: Thanks for reporting your issue! We'll process ALL your messages ASAP - http://getsatisfaction.com/gameground/ or jeremie@gameground.com if you want to talk to me
Thanks!!
Tue, 11/16/2010 - 12:34
Well, good news, and I figured that as much as I'd like to, I can't keep this to myself, so here goes:
MUAHAHA! (Yeah, I know, I'm sure my moment of victory won't last long...)
New patch to the GG engine/widget thingy (I forget what the real name of that is), so now playing WOG is MUCH more stable. Thanks, Jeremie, for the fast update!
And I'm beating Pavke now!
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 16:36
How do you patch it? For me, it still ain't working properly even though I thought it did. I OCD Red Carpet 20 times now and I can't get that mission. And I completed the whole game 3 times and can't get 40 level mission.
Does anyone know who is "oogfodlrow" ? He is way ahead rest of us with 3053 power.
and he made a record Corp tower with 52 meters
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 17:30
I've seen Oggfodlrow in the "Recent aheivments" or whatever it was. I think he might be Peter, Kamal, or a cheat! (maybe a mod, but unlikely, since I've never seen you beat 50 meters Pavke!
)
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:05
Well, it *should* be able to now get the 5 meter tower achievement, for example. I'm still not getting the Red Carpet OCD or the 40 levels played achievement either. It's crashing a whole lot less for me.
If oogfodlrow isn't Peter, I'd say he's a cheat. There's an insane amount of people who cheat regularly in WogCorp (Every time I go in there and the clouds for other people appear, practically half of them say "using 40 of 2000 balls" or something like that). Blah. Laaaame.
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:31
oogfodlrow is me.
40 levels & Red Carpet dont work for me either.
Tue, 11/16/2010 - 20:04
Rats, I'm doomed. So much for getting second place...
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 03:01
Guys!
Patches are updated automatically, you do not have to do anything
If you still encounter problems (it's a beta), please report them via http://getsatisfaction.com/gameground
Elements that could help us to understand the issue:
• Your Username
• OS/Browser
• Precise flow description so we can reproduce the issue
• Exact time when the problem occurred
• Did you see some Error messages?
• Systray icon behavior while playing (blue or yellow)
• GameGround Notification messages which appeared
Hope that you won't need to do this, anyway
Thanks!
J.
Wed, 11/17/2010 - 03:53
@ Jeremie
Thanks for the tips... will try
@ All others... and Jeremie
"oogfodlrow got a personal best in World of Goo (Played in: Map:Road Blocks): Goo balls collected 166"
Thats just impossible!
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 08:41
Oh...could it count the blocks if they get caught in the pipe radius? I know that causes some other glitches.
Another Planet finally has an official release! Download chapters 1 through 3 here! Thank you for waiting so long while I kept starting over.
Wed, 11/17/2010 - 11:45
There must be a problem with Road Blocks. Pavke, your score is 156.
Wed, 11/17/2010 - 13:51
Oh yeah... I didn't see that
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 15:56
I managed to find my original disk, (instead of having to use the back up on my flashdrive) and it works! Either it wanted it straight from disk, or it wanted the shortcut it gave me on my desktop.
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Tue, 11/23/2010 - 05:00
So, who is the winner?
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Tue, 11/23/2010 - 08:10
For sure, it's not me. (Doh! I was so close!
)
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Tue, 11/23/2010 - 10:13
Soon to be published!
One of you guys reported an issue about some power illegitimately allocated... and we found out a BUG that was at the origin of this behavior. We're now in the process of cleaning irrelevant feeds & power values. We'll then publish the final ranking in details! Thanks for your patience.
J.
Tue, 11/23/2010 - 11:58
it seems that when I play WoG,(with GG1 ON) it jumps, and i dont mean slightly jumps, i mean
IT JUMPS
and because of that... 'sniff' ..I couldnt win... I couldve beaten MOM4Evr
'sigh' oh well
if only the TOP 10 got little prizes too...
-Tacomann
TM13's View of the World of Goo: PART 1 is now out!
(I now go by ENDESGA)
Tue, 11/23/2010 - 12:15
Hey Tacomann.. Are you serious, you had performance issues!?
We need to take this seriously - I'm emailing you.
J.
Tue, 11/23/2010 - 18:56
oogfodlrow here
It looks like my power score’s going to take a huge knock after deductions. It might have been better to of had this contest when GameGround had been going for a few months and had time to find and sort out all the bugs that were there, then there wouldn't have been any problems. I couldn’t of kept track of all the personal bests i’d been doing.
Anyway, from what I understand the power only comes into it when all missions are done. It says above “the player with the most missions completed will win”. I think i’ve done the most missions, 18 of 20, with only ‘40 levels completed’ & ‘OCD Red Carpet’ not done coz of another bug that wasn’t fixed in time.
btw, there's a player called artbot345 who has a 111 metre Corporation tower. That is definitely a cheat.
Tue, 11/23/2010 - 15:40
Just to make things clear Peter, I did NOT report that issue about your power illegitimately. I was confused about powering system and wrote to Jeremie asking how it works and how did you got +1000 more then MOM4Evr and I ever could have.
At the time(that was Wednesday I think) I didn't knew the personal bests gives you +20 power.
Next day when I saw the personal bests gives you power I felt noobish writing to Jeremie.
And the next day I saw that strange bug.
So, I didn't write to Jeremie after this and didn't have intentions to bring you down.
I guess Jeremie saw the bug and thought I was reporting that.
" It might have been better to of had this contest when GameGround had been going for a few months and had time to find and sort out all the bugs that were there"
Thats precisely why this competition exists. We are BETA testers on BETA.gameground.com trying to find bugs and glitches in the system. Any bugs found should have been reported immediately and thats what we all did except you.
"Anyway, from what I understand the power only comes into it when all missions are done. It says above “the player with the most missions completed will win”. I think i’ve done the most missions."
There is only one problem. Your power level, that was gained illegitimately, "affected" others players, for example me. I could have tried harder to get those last two missions but I saw as soon as I come close to you in power you would get 10 times more.
At first I didn't know ho to get power except completing missions, at the time you had more power the me and MOM4Evr could ever had as I explained earlier.
Later when I found about powering up I might but up some resistance but sooner or later I would run out of personal bests but you could replay Going Up and Burning Man till infinity.
So I settled for second place and didn't play at all since Friday.
So you score directly influenced others.
Furthermore, I repeatedly and deliberately used the glitch and you knew how to get it.
As I can see now, getting 0 Extra balls gained (this means getting the exact number of goos that is needed to complete the level and not a single one more) will trigger this bug.
You have almost on every level 0 Extra balls gained starting from Going Up...
My guess is that you knew from the beginning, why would someone(especially player of your caliber) would get only required number of balls on Going Up and all other levels?
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Tue, 11/23/2010 - 15:42
@tacomann13
how do you mean it JUMPS?
why didn't you report this earlier?
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Tue, 11/23/2010 - 16:03
PETER B:
We'll ALSO have such contests in the future, when GameGround will look even better
No one completed ALL the missions, anyway.
And 111 metre Corporation tower may not be a cheat... but a glitch on GameGround side. We're in beta, and we loved having you onboard running to win the contest!
I'm now sending the results to David
J.
Tue, 11/23/2010 - 17:07
Congrats Peter and MOM4Evr!
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Wed, 11/24/2010 - 17:34
@Pavke
Getting those last two missions were impossible, no one could do them, so ignore them. They wouldn’t have been the last two missions for you anyway coz you hadn’t done the 45 & 50m tower ones, which you would have had to do before competing with me for the most power.
I didn’t know from the beginning about the bug, it was probably about half way through the week, i didn’t know what triggered it, i just presumed you & others would have cottoned on to the bug and would also use it.
I don’t think i went for min. balls every level, it must of been when i was trying to get the 25 & 40 level missions done by rushing through them.
Anyway, lets stop squabbling now.
I'm glad to have taken part and won it, and look forward to having some more contests in the near future.
Tue, 11/23/2010 - 21:53
IM REALLY SAD
If only...
IF ONLY
IF ONLY IT DIDNT JUMP!
ARRRRRRRRRGH!
this is madness...
'sniff' oh well
congrats to the winners
-Tacomann
TM13's View of the World of Goo: PART 1 is now out!
(I now go by ENDESGA)
Thu, 07/21/2011 - 15:12
Hey, guys I've got problem! When I want to sign up browser shoes me new window where is written:
Server Error in '/' aplication
What I shall do?
Thu, 07/21/2011 - 15:33
Yep. Gameground is now officially out of beta. Sign up here: http://gameground.com/
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