# Home of Cool Little Physics Games **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 27, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694 "2008-11-27T12:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/1 "2008-11-27T12:41:01Z")
–And many other tiny, quirky and weird bits of gameplay. [http://www](http://www). experimentalgameplay .com/game.php?g=1 ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/2 "2008-11-27T20:56:22Z")
Thanks, I’ve bookmarked this even before playing the game. Looks like a good site for the kid, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/3 "2008-11-27T22:03:16Z")
“Tower of Goo” has Mal/HckPK-E, which research indicates is not dangerous in itself but may be indicative of larger malware concerns. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/4 "2008-11-29T09:55:30Z")
**Bryan Ekers** , thanks for the heads up. I love “world of goo”, & I got the demo from a site I trust, I hadn’t noticed any adverse or suspicious effects at all. Please tell me more about this threat – my research turns up mostly very sketchy information. How did you become aware of this? Is the program in question an integral part of the game, or some kind of copyright protection? I had a hard drive get completely bolluxed by the DRM on “Spore.” Even after zero-filling it, it wouldn’t take an OS. Numerous diagnostics assured me it was not the hardware. I would hate to go through that again. Nevertheless, I have downloaded & played all kinds of games from this site & had no problem with any of them. Especially, I liked “crayon physics,” “gravity head,” and “humpsters.” ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/5 "2008-11-29T18:34:36Z")
Yeah, my antivirus is blocking it, too. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/6 "2008-11-29T21:22:10Z")
Hmmm… I use Bit Defender & RootKit Revealer. I have also run Hijack This. No sign of any issue. I would be very interested to hear any further info anyone has about this file; especially, whether it’s critical for the game, or some lame DRM. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/7 "2008-11-30T06:35:38Z")
This is really sad. The site looks cool as hell. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/8 "2008-11-30T20:06:51Z")
Okay, everybody, I found out what the problem is… it’s a false positive; the whole thing is explained [here.](http://2dboy.com/forum/index.php?topic=740.msg5404) Apparently it has to do with an update conflicting with some antivirus programs. These guys are developers for EA games; if you want to get “World of Goo” demo directly from their site, it’s: [http://2dboy.com/games.php](http://2dboy.com/games.php) Scroll down for demo. P.S. It says “100% region-free and DRM-free.” ---
**Author:** ![Bootis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/home-of-cool-little-physics-games/474694/9 "2008-12-02T09:25:03Z")
Man, I wish they just made the games playable online like 99.99% of games like these.