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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 6:33:50 GMT

Post by jpw on May 11, 2014 6:33:50 GMT

Just had an idea for a most amusing/depressing task: Listen to the Kickstarter Videos in order and pick out some key quotes, rules are you have to do the next one in the series, I'll set things rolling with the first three:

Designing Godus with Peter and Jack #1

26th November 2012

P: "and this is the key thing about Kickstarter we are going to have a look at what people think..."
J:"there is no point doing a Kickstarter if we are not listening..."
P: "That's the whole point"
[Yes, Peter, that is the "whole point".]
Though worth also noting first mention of GEMS

Designing Godus with Peter and Jack #2

27th November 2012

J: "...our role about flattening the land... a lot of people are worried that we are talking about these beautiful mountains... and then we are just flattening it all off... and that is not the case..."

P: "well...it is the case only if you want it to be the case..." [By that he means if you want to play the game.]

P:"there are things I love about gestures and things I don't... B&W got v confused and cryptic..." [unlike 2.0.5]

J: "People don't want to micromanage disciples and things like that... you don't have to worry about managing them and telling them where to go"

P: "you will never micromanage your people" [except in settlements, building, and vouagers, yes so never]

..."don't think you micro manage them at all." [ok I won't even think it, I don't think I am micro managing my followers... don't think it remember!]

P: "remember all of this will be summarised in a document which you can refer back to... please please please give us your feedback"

P:"...again this is going to be summarised in a document..." [due for publication 2015]

P:"...we are super excited to receive your feedback..." [as long as you have been playing the game correctly.]

Designing Godus with Peter and Jack #3

28th November 2012

P: "... we have to be realistic, not that I am known for that..." [Err... no Peter, no you are not.]

J: "...we plan for a 7-9 month development period for core features..." [Phew I thought it would take years, glad to hear.]

J: "we want to confirm that this is a PC game..."

P: "...our main focus at the moment is to get the mouse right, that is our main obsession... if we said the mouse would be the same as your finger we would be idiots... PC players don't worry about it..."

J: "...we are not dumbing down for an alternative market... it's cross platform multiplayer... you are getting entirely intact beautiful PC gaming... this isn't us doing a dumbed down game for mobile..." [err, Peter, Peter, Peter...?]

P: "...it's all about that incredible feeling about being god..."

P: "gifts of the gods..." [blimey I had forgotten these existed]

[At 13.07 I should have bought some Legos! Remember this...?]

P: "all of this will be summarised in a lovely clear document by Jack..." [So that is what Jack is working on!]

P: " tomorrow familiars..." [forgotten about these too, look at all these things we backers still can look forward to with just a little more patience..."]

So anyone fancy looking over Designing Godus with Peter and Jack #4....

Last Edit: May 11, 2014 6:37:06 GMT by jpw: Typos

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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 6:57:34 GMT

Post by Lord Ba'al on May 11, 2014 6:57:34 GMT

I started doing this a long time ago. I don't know if I still have a file of it somewhere. If I do then it is likely to be on a harddrive that I won't have access to for a couple of months. I'm rather tired at the moment. Have been playing Settlers all through the night. (the 1993 one) Casual gaming, I think not!

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jpw Master Posts: 159 Pledge level: Patron+Acorn+Poster I like: Populus What I thought Godus was going to be... I don't like: Waiting Collecting belief Stickers Sculpting Voyages Managing settlements Not being a god in a god game Chests	Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 15:54:49 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jpw on May 11, 2014 15:54:49 GMT 1. Shows how long ago these videos were released given you no longer have that hard drive. 2. What software/downloads are you using to play the settlers? Do you own shares in bluebyte? 3. Tempted to play Albion.

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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 16:10:11 GMT

Post by jpw on May 11, 2014 16:10:11 GMT

As for update #4, and Jack is not well, poor fellow.

J: Will there be much emphasis on the good/evil...
P: In the original Populus you originally paid [deliberated typo for played] the good or evil tribe, obviously there will be more than that in godus, we will measure the amount of suffering your people have... [what P means is how much suffering the backers will experience.]

J: Is it more B&W sandbox, or RTS Populus
P: This is the thing you might find hard to believe it is an immense strategy game... and a sandbox...it is both [By both he means neither.]

P: There is Starcraft but you have to have 300 key presses per minute to survive. [TOTALLY unlike Godus. No KEY presses required.]

J: You are not directly telling your followers to do this or do that... [Except in settlements, or when building, or in the voyages.]

P: Do we have free will? [No all we do is flatten land.]

J: You can play the whole game in homeworld...
P: Yes you can play the whole game in home world... [What?!?!?!? There is a GAME holy cow! Did you hear that Batman?]

P:"it's better to have houses spread out... rather than flat boring landscapes... the older the house the taller it is..." [as long as you have wheat/ore, and you don't care about game progress.]

P: How is the design doc going?
J: Swimingly... I have started thinking about it...
P: Could everyone just tweet Jack and tell him to do the document. [Okay everyone did you hear that?]

P: We really want to make it a great game. [There is that word again. GAME. GAME. What is this GAME they keep speaking of...]

Last Edit: May 11, 2014 16:12:31 GMT by jpw

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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 17:38:47 GMT jpw likes this

Post by splitterwind on May 11, 2014 17:38:47 GMT

Interesting thread. I wanted to do something similar but decided its too much work, especially since english isn't my native language.

The following isn't from a kickstarter video, its a german magazine that interviewed molyneux about Godus (interview is in english and not dubbed)

It had taken place shortly before early access and is full of lies

about 6 minutes in:

Peter: The other thing about this game, and this sounds insane, there isn't a single moment in which we tell you how to play. Part of the joy of this game is discovering how to play.

Journalist: So I could kill one of the two guys which I start with and could end the game exactly in the first minute?

Peter: Whenever you get below two people, you get two more people. Thats the only cheat in the game. Otherwise you a free to do whatever you like. This is an open world game, your world is completely, totally unique to you. Your followers, their believes, your commandments, their religion is unique to you. ALL this stuff sounds unbelievable, but it is all working and you can play it in the 13.th of september in early access of steam.

later... (about 8:30 minutes in)

Peter: Incidently as I'm doing this stuff [terraforming] I'm changing the tidal patterns. (something about waterlevel) If I change it enough it will start changing the wind direction, which will change the weather in your world, that is important to things like forest fires, because the wind direction will blow the fire towards you or blow it away. And when I say simulation, I mean simulation. All the water in the world is completely dynamic. For example if I wanted to I could just move this terrain here and I could start creating a lake or I could create a waterfall. If I push this water near to this people here - uh - your little people need water so if you get the flow of the water right you are literally sculpting the landscape and this will be a very important skill. It will also be a important skill in multiplayer.

... tidal patterns, wind direction, erosion, simulation? Sounds great, where can i get that complex and dynamic game with unbelievable freedom that peter is talking about?

Last Edit: May 11, 2014 17:53:47 GMT by splitterwind

22cans is selling antidotes to their own poison (slow progression, repetitive game mechanics, progression-walls) to idiots. At the same time they pretend that we WANTED that antidote and it was solely based on our feedback (instead of understanding that we don't want poisoned software in the first place).
The PC sprints will probably be nothing more than a collection of antidotes that can be sold at good prices to mobile gamers. At least we get small doses of antidotes for free. WOHOO

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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 18:50:19 GMT

Post by Lord Ba'al on May 11, 2014 18:50:19 GMT

May 11, 2014 15:54:49 GMT jpw said:

Shows how long ago these videos were released given you no longer have that hard drive.

I have the harddrive, it's back home. But I'm not home right now and won't be for some time to come.

May 11, 2014 15:54:49 GMT jpw said:

What software/downloads are you using to play the settlers? Do you own shares in bluebyte?

I'm using WinUAE as an Amiga emulator, it's freely downloadable. The Settlers game I downloaded from The Game Archives. (awesome site) I have no shares in Bluebyte or in anything else for that matter.

Last Edit: May 11, 2014 18:51:17 GMT by Lord Ba'al

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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 11, 2014 20:22:09 GMT

Post by jpw on May 11, 2014 20:22:09 GMT

Designing Godus with Peter and Jack #5 Jack is feeling better. Phew.

30th November 2012

P: "This is the thing, this is why we are doing kickstarter... when we send copies out... we will be getting feedback, and that is how games like mindcraft developed and that is exactly what we want to do."

[Peter explains familiars. Which still do not exist. Poor Paul, he has been thinking about how to visualise these ravens since, anyone got a photo of a raven we could send Paul?]

[Peter is working on the design document... where did he put it?]

P: "Let's talk about mechanics, what you do with your mouse or finger, mainly mouse, the main thing you will do is sculpt... you can also clear..." [I see he promised a landscaping game. I really should stop complaining, where is Alan Titchmarsh when you need him, maybe he should be the familiar he's good at landscaping!]

[Listening to PM is becoming increasingly painful. I can't do it. My brain is meeeelting. Stopping at 13.10 until tomorrow.]

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Kickstarter Videos, a complete history... May 12, 2014 21:19:14 GMT

Post by jpw on May 12, 2014 21:19:14 GMT

Designing Godus with Peter & Jack #6

2nd December 2012

J: "...make lovely plateaus... and make stairs..." [Oh crumbs, it seems they have kept their promise there.]

P: "Us designers have these dreams... we want natural flowing water... and has game play meaning... " [How is the dynamic water going, when was the last time we heard about this?]

J: "We have been developing the digging, and chipping mechanics... essentially you can chip away at the edges..."

P: "There is that look in your eyes of disbelief..." [Shoot! Peter can see me, where is her, this is freaky!]

[Jack and Peter talk about pits, tactics, lava, moats, Peter's childhood running around the English countryside, then talk about the influence of the Total War series... not sure what to comment on first there.]

P: "... for me it is that feeling of power..." [Power to flatten, on occasions, when you have enough belief, which you collected first...]

[Irrelevant talk about a Totem, followed by chat about the weather, apparently it was cold in England great, would never have guessed. P goes on for a while, I'm increasingly amazed at how little they say in these updates.]

P: "...it turns into a strategy game..." [Two big promises there from 2012: strategy and game. Dangerous words Peter, dangerous words.]

P: "... you get very excited about what is in your head..." [Is it me, or does this sound very kinky?]

[What a load of bollocks. Can I type bollocks? Is that a censored word?]

P: "...I love that fluidity of land..." [Fluid indeed, who was it who said sculpting land sounded like a slurping noise?]

P: "definitely earthquake... volcano...tornado..." [Is it just me or has anyone, anyone, actually used any of these powers?]

[Phew glad that video is over, another painful performance from Peter and Jack, just noticed a worrying coincidence: Punch and Judy = P and J, it all becomes clear, this is a puppet show, and we are the helpless sepctators...]

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