The other day I stumbled across a new game and downloaded the demo. It is called World of Goo and was written by 2 guys with a new game studio called 2D Boy. I am addicted. If you enjoyed games like: Lemmings, Worms, or Marble Blast then you will like World of Goo. I suggest that you download and try the game for yourself. Right now it is available for the PC but a Linux and Mac version are in beta testing according to their website.

I love these kinds of stories because in a world where major game studios are spending 10s of millions of dollars on new games there is still room for the little guy with a great idea. GO LITTLE GUYS!!

Since there were several things I wanted to comment on today I decided to do a bullet list to try and keep it short:

• I did a 20 minute trail run with my friend in Colorado. This was my first trail run and I enjoyed it (after not during). I had to walk a few sections but other than that I thought I handled the new type of running and lack of oxygen pretty well.
• I did not watch all of the presidential debate last Friday but my favorite part was when Obama said (and I paraphrase), “I have a bracelet too that was given to me by srgt uh uh um by tthe mother of srgt uh…”. He finally got the name out but it was such a “me too” moment that totally backfired on him.
• The gas shortage in Georgia is really starting to become an issue. I am not sure if this is an actual supply problem or if people around here are just stupid and creating the problem with their panicking. What’s funny is that I hear we are the only state having these issues right now.
• I got to play Duke Nukem 3D this weekend on my Xbox 360. This was a huge game when I was in college and we spent many a day with wires spread between our rooms or having LAN parties to play this game. Now I can play it across Xbox Live and not have to drag by computer to someone’s house to play Dukematch.

I caught a documentary on the making of Spore this weekend. For those of you that are non-gamers, Spore is the latest video game creation of Will Wright the legendary game designer of Sims fame. If Sims were about people then Spore is about everything else. Essentially you create your own lifeforms, planets, solar systems, etc while at the same time being able to visit the planets, solar systems, etc of all the other people playing the game. Watching the documentary reminded me how much I want to create video games one day when I grow up.