2D Boy’s World of Goo is headed soon to WiiWare in North America. The Lemmings-esque game requires you to guide balls of goo to an exit, building bridges, towers, and more to help you reach your destination. The game showed up on Nintendo of Europe’s retail release list a few days ago, causing confusion among millions.

Actually, World of Goo is going to be given a few Europe-exclusive bonus features (cue the angry complaints from Americans with no perspective) and will see a full fledged retail release. Disc, manual, case, and all… even box art!

You can read the full explanation from 2D Boy founder Ron Carmel after the break.

Our European publisher, RTL Playtainment, is planning to release both the Wii and PC versions as retail titles. We’re going to add some extra content to the European version that won’t be available in North America or Japan.

Extra content: We’re not sure how much extra content there will be, we’re still figuring that out with RTL.

Price: It’s not going to be a budget title, but I don’t know if it will be “full price” either. This up to RTL and their distribution network to figure out. They’re going to be presenting the game at the Leipzig GC… that might be a good place to ask them about pricing.

WiiWare vs. Retail: RTL is experienced in bringing retail games to market. They’ve also dealt fairly and honestly with us and that means a lot to us after experiences we’ve had with other publishers. In general, Kyle and I favor digital distribution because when you go retail there are a lot of people making money off the game and there’s a much smaller piece left for the developer. Retail does have one significant advantage over digital though: publishers are use to paying an advance for a game. After having worked on this game for over a year, burning through savings and getting into debt we were simply nearing the end of our runway and it started being pretty important for us to get some money coming in. RTL was there to help us. We’re trying to compensate for the price difference by making some exclusive content for the European version, but we know that some people will still be annoyed that the game will cost more in Europe. We’re sad about that, because we just want people to play the game and have fun. We’d be giving it away for free if we didn’t need to eat and pay rent. :)

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