From Modern Farmer:
The video game designers at Coffee Stain Studios just finished an elaborate sci-fi shoot-em-up called Sanctum 2. It's their baby — the result of four years, endless development, buckets of blood, sweat and tears.
Coffee Stain is also working on a basic little goat simulation. Which one do you want to play?“The Goat Simulator is more popular than any other game we’ve made,” says developer Armin Ibrisagic. “It’s not even done yet.”
A short video preview for Goat Simulator went online this week. It shows a goat careening through town, knocking stuff over and getting creamed by cars. The game is a rough draft, clearly working out the rough edges (e.g., the goat’s pixellated neck hangs limply while it climbs ladders — and also the goat can climb ladders).
Yet since it was released on Monday, the video earned well over a million views — more than all other Coffee Stain videos combined. It’s been covered by various “Ain’t that crazy!” websites, goat gifts are pouring in to Coffee Stain’s offices in Sweden, and Ibrisagic is clocking thousands of new Twitter followers (including Pew Die Pie, the most popular YouTube star in the world).
Not to be smug, but no one at Modern Farmer is shocked by this development. We’re like the goat version of a Crazy Cat Lady — we fully relate to goat obsessives. We’ve also seen how well goats play on the Internet; GoatCam remains one of our most enduringly popular features....MORE
