Godus: Kickstarter updates

Update 62 - 04/08/2013



Gameflow Godus Update with Peter and Jack #29

Hello backers,

In this week's update Peter and Jack give you an update on the development of Godus. It's all about gameflow, gameflow, gameflow... Creating a game involves imagination and passion but it's not always easy, as you will learn from this week's update. Someone on the team dropped a bombshell if it comes to multiplayer...and panic kicked in with our designers. Sometimes, programmers and designers live in different dimensions!

Update 64 - 24/08/2013



Godus update from Gamescom

Hello everyone,

Yet another rainy day in England but fairly sunny in Cologne, where the biggest European gaming show took place over the course of the last week. Peter's been out there showing the game to a few people and next week, he'll be in Seattle for the Penny-Arcade show. While we aren't quite ready yet to say what that all means, we recorded a message from Peter earlier in the week to give you an update on GODUS.



There's a few Tweets from Gamescom about Godus too; one, two, three. We weren't on the show floor obviously (that's expensive and we don't have the money to do that) but a few selected people got to see the game.

Have a great weekend everyone, we'll be back next week!

22cans

Update 66 - 08/09/2013



GODUS Update with Peter and Jack #33

Hello backers,

Not too long now before we'll be sending out your Beta Keys. Peter, having returned from Gamescom and PAX, updates all of you on what to expect from this version. This is a very focussed time for the team as they try and finish their work items that are crucial for getting the Beta ready for launch on Steam Early Access. You can find GODUS here, feel free to add the game to your wish list until your keys arrive.



In unrelated news, the teeshirts order has now been placed so everyone will start receiving theirs in the coming weeks. We hope to post a picture soon.

Thank you all, none of this would have been able without your support.

22cans

Update 68 - 04/10/2013



GODUS Beta V1.3 now available

And with that...GODUS V1.3 is now available on Steam, just load up your Steam client and it should automatically download the latest version. You can find GODUS on Steam Early Access, obviously.

1.3 New and Improved Features

• Flow completed recrafted, much less meaningless clicking
• Enter the Bronze Age and era of agriculture.
• 12 New Bronze age advances including Farming, Politics and Cartography.
• 8 New Resource cards to collect
• 8 New God Cards to collect
• New unlocks to increase your Area of Influence, speed up followers and cheaper settlements
• Unlock a new Farmer Follower and grow your civilisation through agriculture
• Farmers will grow crops outside of settlements for the population
• Crops are gathered to feed your population and advance your civilisation
• Choose the most fertile and efficient land for your crops
• Dynamic weather system where lightning storms will bombard your Homeworld, damaging Abodes not in a settlement
• Sprogging centralised within settlements rather than on individual Abodes
• Sprogging from Abodes only available when the Followers have a job
• Abodes inside a settlement now have second stories allowing much greater capacity and Belief.
• Multiplayer balanced so that enemy followers will not fight each other as you plan dominance
• New scrapbook hints
• Felt tents no longer produce Belief and instead house more Followers and have faster Follower generation Faster info bubbles
• New God Power icons
• Followers share their thoughts and needs via Prayers
• Beam added to Shrines within Area of Influence
• All battle maps quicker to fight
• Totem rebalanced to reduce number of Followers
• Finger of God is now more effective
• Townlife is now more meaningful
• New gem seams added to Homeworld
• Rebalanced trees and rocks

1.3 Bug Fixes

• Various crash fixes including crashes on startup for both Mac and Windows
• Fixes for crashes related to Settlements
• Beautified land will remain beautified after exiting the game
• Previously used Resource Cards given back for removed Advance Cards
• Followers will no longer walk slowly on land that was previous blighted
• Temple of Fertility statue is now actually on the temple
• Settlements will always generate Belief
• Settlement roads will re-draw after Abodes are moved
• Followers on fire will die even when on Beautified land or in a Settlement
• New opening flyover
• Shrines are now more distinctive
• Belief gain modified to be slower when game is shut down
• God Power icons crisper
• Villagers will recover correctly after being in water then rescued
• Crash when attacking a Castle in Story Battle fixed
• “FULL” from Abode info no longer getting stuck on screen
• Belief musical chain “fail” will not play after collecting only one Belief bubble
• Collecting Belief from a Settlement will continue the musical chain Bach’s First Prelude now plays in full
• Shrubs on Statue of Settlement shadow fixed
• Statue of Settlement no longer floating
• Statue of Settlement destruction crash fixed
• Statue of Settlement door is blue in Homeworld
• Statue of Settlement flag will be striped with sprogging is available
• Fix for odd behaviour of Followers from Settlement sprogging
• Mining is now more significant to Followers
• Z-fighting on Settlement base fixed
• Flag SFX will play on Settlement
• Failsafe against Armageddon being usable in Homeworld
• Shrines will continue to build after exiting the game
• Totem number will not remain on screen when Totem is deactivated
• Card descriptions on Felt Tents and Permanent Abodes changed to reflect new functionality
• Fixed lighting on Abodes and fences
• Fixed Followers getting stuck at Totem
• Belief and Follower info dialogue removed on Abodes in a Settlement
• SFX volume cannot be set to NULL

1.3 Known Issues

• Sometimes the Mac version will hardlock after 30 minutes of inactivity
• Shrine cards look duplicated
• Land expansion shrine has no scaffolding
• Difficult to see if Farms are selected to be moved with Town Planning Lens flare from beams remains on
• Shrines Special Followers will sometimes play female Follower sprog sound FX
• Named Followers are randomly assigned a gender
• Some VFX are not affected by nighttime
• GODUS icon is low resolution
• The final paragraph in the scrapbook does not fade in
• Cannot quit game when cards are on-screen
• Wheat is static in the wind
• Roads to farms do not always appear
• Statue of Speed FX can appear overblown
• Sometimes there is an audio bug when returning to Homeworld mid-Multiplayer battle
• Info bubble for a Settlement will sometimes not appear if the info bubble is already open on another Settlement

Update 70 - 13/12/2013



Godus (Video) Update 35

We released GODUS on 13th September 2013 after organizing a successful Kickstarter campaign in December 2012. The following blog-style updates will narrate the daily going-ons of the development team, they are written by Sam.

DARKNESS FALLS - 12th December

At this time of year, the sun sets at four in the afternoon in the South-East of England. There’s a certain dreariness about the entire situation when it gets dark this early but what makes up for that is working on one of the most popular games on Steam Early Access. These updates are written for you, our community of players and fans.

On Monday when the sun had already set and I could feel a slight tremble set in from the excessive amounts of coffee drank that day, Peter and I sat down in one of our cozy yet spacious meeting rooms. The topic of discussion were updates, or rather the lack thereof. Our last video update #34 was from 25th October and we’d gone pretty ‘dark’ since. The team have been sending in short updates about their work on Twitter (GODUS Dev Says) but not everyone sees those all of the time so it wasn’t a viable solution to our communication with you. It’s not that we don’t want to release an update but it’s just so damn hard. So hard to make all these systems that the programmers have build, work together. Peter agrees that we need to post more updates to our players that aren’t necessarily him standing on a soap box...not only do those take quite a bit of time for Jack, Peter’s focus is mostly on doing what a designer his calibre does best; designing. There’s also only so much you can cramp into a short video. We’ll continue to do them but to a lesser extend. So what we agreed is that I’m going to keep my finger on the pulse in terms of what’s going on and post my impressions, the latest gossip and drama right here (hopefully with images). Heck, we might even get guest developers blogging too!

Peter and Jack spoke in the last video update about how they want to completely revamp the timeline and Follower behaviour. The latter is especially significant seeing how it’s what makes the idea of a living, breathing world a reality. It’s pretty sad right now when you build a beautiful land in GODUS, allow for some wicked city- planning, and then none of your Followers do anything with it. There has been so much talk on the forums about what Followers could do and obviously the team has always been planning to expand this part of the game. That’s where Dimitri comes in. He’s a part Greek who codes like there’s no tomorrow. He’s also renowned for being a complete menace! Even though he’s our resident HR representative, when it comes to Health&Safety it’s a completely different matter. Let’s just say he’s quite liberal if it comes to that but I wouldn’t be fair if I also didn’t mention he’s a highly focussed programmer. According to Gary, our Lead Programmer, Dimitri owns this problem completely and couples it with his open mind that’s required to ask questions and utilize other people’s experience. These two elements are essential when tackling the big problems in game development. He also mentioned some expletives which aren’t really fit to be repeated so I’ve omitted those...



However, as Gary puts it, simulation software is inherently complex and GODUS is no exception. Getting the behaviour to feel real but be controllable and not too expensive (in terms of memory) is an enormous task, with many situations where these conflicting goals collide in often bewildering ways but if anyone is up to the task it’s Dimitri. Luckily for us he’s up for taking on crazy complex code.

Doing this is not for the faint hearted, after one of the most intensive and far reaching coding tasks of the entire project, shortly after video update #34 was shot and released, Dimitri checked in a container full worth of code, which completely revamps and reinvents the simulation of all living things in GODUS.



It was so exciting, everyone gathered around Dimitri’s desk, anticipating how this new world would look and feel alive. He compiled the game, booted it up, we all watched as the first two Followers were born. They raised their heads, looked around, and then promptly fell flat on their faces and died. It turned out that the balance variables that drive the world were not balanced with this new system. Now that Dimitri’s system is in we started to realise its full potential and the guys have been working on that non-stop. The designers have now a world that is full of Followers that react to situations around them, and that have basic wants and needs (or at least in the code). This AI is akin to the AI that drove the creature in a game called Black&White (personal favourite of mine) but instead of working on one character it works on thousands. The knock-on effect of such a powerful system is huge. Tim our animator is working hard to make the animations show off such complex behaviour, Russell needs to go back and re-author all follower SFX, Code wise there’s a lot of systems that plug into this system, and test... well, just how do you test such a diverse world? The reason why we haven't released GODUS since V1.3.1 is simply that the new system is so far reaching that it affects every aspect of the game and the guys need more time to get it ready. There’s also been a tidal wave of feedback that we’re looking into as well as analyzing game analytics.

We thought we’d get V1.4 out with the new Followers and Timeline but it wasn’t meant to be. Like I said, it’s pretty hard getting all these systems to work together and there’s no point releasing a version we know is going to cause more hardship than pleasure. The forums would be fuming! So it’s heads down for the team, to get it to a state where Peter, Jack and Jamie can start playing again.

There are loads of new Follower types and how they look in the works, and our art director Paul with the help of Sara have been drawing concepts for Followers throughout the different eras. I’ll save those and their animations, 3D models etc...for a separate blog entry but will leave you with this nice teaser image for now.



I’ll be back with more updates on the development of GODUS and hopefully some more gossip on the team too, so stay tuned. If you want to learn more about the Followers and their simulation then read the following Q&A or video update #35 with Peter and Jack;



Sam: Dimitri, what are you coding and why?

Dimitri: I am implementing a brand new system which drives, animates, networks and persists followers. The followers have gone through many iterations and the existing system has been refactored many times to work with these iterations. However, the point came where it was not able to give us the functionality and robustness we were after. Knowing now how the followers will interact with and react to the world we took the decision to design and create a new system which is dedicated to supporting this behavior.

Q: Why is the Follower simulation such an amazing system?

A: The new system is attractive for several reasons, followers will feel more real, they will react to anything that happens around them, and how they react will depend on several factors like their ethnicity and more importantly how much stamina they have left. The other key advantage of this new system is that it is completely data driven. This gives the designers and animators the speed and flexibility they require when balancing and testing new game features. The new system also concentrates on performance, and the ability to have many more people simulated in the world.

Q: Can you tell me some of the behaviours players can expect from this new system they didn't already see in previous iterations?



A: Followers can gain jobs and during their jobs they may become tired and decide to go home to rest. Once rested they will return to their job and carry on working. Depending on a Followers fear level they may choose to run over and help put out a fire, however, they may just not have the energy to tackle the fire in which case you will see them run away to safety.

Q: How do you approach coding something like this?

A: Getting a full understanding of exactly what the designers where looking for in the system was the most important step. After this I was able to spec it out and identify any core issues. Once this was done and corrected I was able to build the basic framework and test it, and from there I took each portion of the system and implemented it.

Q: When and where do you code best?

A: Afternoon/evening time, either at home where its quiet or using music to drown out the loud voices around me.

Q: Is there anything else you can say about coding the Followers behaviour?

A: Its a rather large system and it cobwebs out to just about every other system and so there are always new problems to face, but it is very exciting, especially when the followers transform into fully animated characters (for a few weeks the team will have to put up with followers that are rendered as a dot, an arrow and text describing the action they are doing)

Update 72 - 23/12/2013



It's the season

It's time to wrap up 2013 and look forward to 2014. The team wish you all a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Update 74 - 19/03/2014



GODUS Update with Peter and Jack from GDC

Hi everyone,

This is a quickly made video as the design duo have been running recklessly around San Francisco showing off Godus and the latest addition of Hubworld. When they are back home safely there will be response to the thoughts of the community.



... And here is the new GODUS trailer! We hope you enjoy it.



Thanks again for your continued support! Keep playing GODUS and submitting your feedback to support.22cans.com. And while you're at it, check out our new website, www.22cans.com.

Update 76 - 08/05/2014



Godus Update 2.0.5 Released Today & New Joiners



Hi everyone.

My name’s George and, along with Bruno Tavares and Lin Lin Li, we’re the newest members of the 22cans team! Bruno is our Lead Server Architect, responsible for all our game client to server networking needs; Lin Lin is our resident analytics expert, responsible for sharing insights about how you play to the team; and I’m the new Community Chap, aka The Guy In The Online Asbestos Suit (full credit to Matt Soell for that epithet).

INTRODUCTIONS

I’m not going to spend lots of time telling you how thrilled I am to have joined the team here in Guildford (although I very much am) and how excited I am to now be working on project I first got involved with as a Kickstarter backer (very excited, since you ask). Instead, I’m going to tell you about the kind of things I will be working to implement so that the community has a greater sense of involvement and awareness about what’s going on with Godus.

• First up, I’m working with Peter and Jack to publish a features roadmap – hopefully this will give you much clearer insight as to how Godus is shaping up and the direction in which it’s moving. I’m hoping to publish this before the end of next week, barring any unforeseen eventualities.
• Secondly, I’m looking to implement some processes to enable us to gather, filter and implement community feedback (i.e. issues and suggestions) more effectively. First step – familiarise myself with you, the game and your outstanding concerns.
• Thirdly, I’ve been aware that we need to update the info on Godus’ store page on Steam so that it better reflects the content that’s currently in-game, as well as the direction of future content. That’s something I’d like to do this month.

v2.0.5 PATCH INFO

Today, however, we are updating the Steam Early Access build to version 2.0.5 – we believe that this build isn’t quite ready for primetime, so we’ll be releasing it to the Opt-In branch on Steam.

You may experience issues carrying your existing saved game across to the new version, so we recommend you delete your existing save to take advantage of all the new features and changes in this build. Click here for instructions on how to delete your save games.

For information on how to access the opt-in developer builds, please follow this link.

Peter and Jack have recorded a video update where they talk about the release of version 2.0.5 and some of the work that went into it, which you can find at the top of this update.

In future, we’ll probably save full-blown video updates for larger content updates, as we’ll be able to update you more frequently on the comings and goings of Godus via words and pictures on this blog.

v2.0.5 PATCH NOTES

Please find below the change list for the v2.0.5 update. As always, please be sure to report any bugs and issues to Support@22Cans.com or Support.22Cans.com and feel free to discuss features for future updates on our forum here.

FEATURES:

• Storms now have a chance to replenish chests in your world within your area of influence
• Settlements have been redesigned to feel more like settlements instead of a sprawl

How Settlements Work

Mining ore and farming for wheat now occurs as a variable rate depending on how many mines and farms you build; how many workers are in a mine or farm; any buffs applied to the mine or farm and/or its workers; and proximity of a mine or farm to a settlement (i.e. how far miners or farmers have to commute to work), as opposed to specific amounts of ore and wheat gathered over time.

The resource bar now correlates to resource generated per hour instead of a total amount of the resource collected.

• The more fields/mines you have, the higher your per hour rate will be. For example, building additional mines/farms will increase the overall rate at which you generate ore/wheat. The more mines/farms you build, the faster you will level up.
• Fields and mines further from the Settlement are less efficient than those within a Settlement
• Fields, mines and abodes built inside a Settlement do not cost any resources to build however if you build outside a Settlement, it costs resources. The cost is displayed on the empty plots.
• Various balance improvements, including reduction of time it takes to complete building

FIXES:

Crash on start up: Players were that the game will crash at the splash screen, which should now be fixed in this version. If the problem persists, please refer to the workaround here.

Crash when hitting "return to home" on voyages: Players were reporting a crash every time they select "return to home" on a voyage, which should now be fixed in this version.

Finger of God causes red graphic issues: Players were reporting a graphics issue of red squares whenever using the Finger of God, which should now be fixed in this version.

Return to Civilization button disappears upon abandoning challenges: Players were reporting the red message "Map Preview" at the beginning of each challenge, if not closed, caused the Return to Civilization button to disappear. That should now be fixed in this version.

Additional fixes:

• Sculpting tutorial responsiveness fixed
• Keyboard hot keys updated to reflect new configuration
• Memory optimizations since version 2.0.4, increasing responsiveness and stability
• Buried chest graphical effects should no longer disappear

KNOWN ISSUES

For the full list of known issues feel free to read through our Known Issues thread.

Freeze upon quitting: The most consistently reported bug is that the game freezes upon quitting and has to be closed via the Task Manager. This is due to a middleware issue and a workaround is being investigatedand a workaround is i.

Meteor will sometimes leave behind small pieces of land: When a meteorite strikes it can leave behind a small square of land that can’t be removed by sculpting.

The Belief button will appear faded out at the beginning of the Tutorial before unlocking Belief: This bug affects the Mac build only.

That’s all from me today and I’m looking forward to familiarising myself with you further over the coming days, weeks and months.

NOTE: Want to read all about the changes that were introduced in our initial 2.0 release? Click here to check them out. Also, if you have a bug to report or some feedback to submit please take a look at the Submitting Feedback and Bug Reports thread. Lastly, for more information on opting in to developer builds feel free to read here. Thanks everyone!

Update 78 - 29/05/2014



Godus Roadmap - where are we headed?



22cans has an iterative, suck-it-and-see approach to Godus’ design, where new features are designed, implemented, improved and refined in sequence after extensive play testing. Whilst this practice may appear a bit over-adventurous and unstructured when exposed so openly with the nature of Steam Early Access, this is a legitimate development practice that has aided innovative designers such as Peter Molyneux throughout his entire career in creating bold, unique experiences.



With Godus, we’re focused on delivering a creative experience with intuitive, clean gameplay for both core and casual gamers that connects people together and provides a consistently surprising and ever-expanding tail-end of the game.

We really want players to treat Godus like a hobby, where they will be so proud of the results of their time spent in the game that players will want to show off the results to their friends, families and peers.



There is still a long way to go with the development of Godus. For those who felt that the game has yet to meet their satisfaction, let us reiterate that the average development cycle for a modern game can be between 2 and 4 years! Godus was released a shy 9 months into development on Steam via Early Access, far ahead of the average Kickstarter first-playable turnaround. So the build you can play today is still very much on the way to becoming a truly great PC game.

Currently, the team’s current focus is polishing the iOS version for a casual audience based off how that audience plays the game. It’s worth remembering that the first ten months of Godus’ development focused entirely on the PC version of the game and it’s only been in the last few months that we’ve given the mobile version the care and attention it deserves. Rest assured that our focus will return to the PC version at the end of summer/beginning of autumn.





1. Production



Maintain increased build release frequency

• Updates to Opt-In branch of Steam will be regularly delivered every week; updates to the Release branch will be delivered on a monthly basis.
• Builds on the Opt-In branch may be unstable and require you to delete your existing save game; builds to the main branch will be more polished and include all the bug fixes and new features found in the previous Opt-in builds.

2. Introduction of Hubworld

In Hubworld, you will meet three other gods (i.e. players) in one of many connected provinces and help each other progress through the game by trading. o Each player will start with their own new Settlement, unique to Hubworld, oriented towards their own point-of-view of the landscape.

• Hubworld will bring you to the Jupiter-sized planet we described in this video – What is GODUS?eeee
• Hubworld will bring Godus to 51% completion and mark the release of v2.1.

Near future – less than a month:



Meet new Gods

• Hubworld will introduce the ability for Godus to connect players together. Initially we will be connecting PC – > PC players and mobile – > mobile players.
• Cross-platform implementation will come later (no ETA as yet) and allow trading between players of Godus, regardless of their platform of choice.

Ability to trade with other cultures

• The more you trade, the more you advance your own civilisation.
• Trade is its own statistic – you don’t micromanage the trade of individual resources such as ore, wheat or population.
• Trade is conducted by a new Follower class, the Merchant, who travels between your own Settlements and that of other players.
• Leashing from your Settlement to another player’s Settlement will cause a Merchant to travel from one to the other and initiate trade.

Simultaneous multiplayer sculpting

• Players will be able to re-shape their Hubworld together in real-time, so as to remove any obstacles and create effective trade routes.

Simultaneous multiplayer discovery

• Players will be able to discover hidden items secreted away around Hubworld that will further their individual and collective progress. If any chests are found, their contents will be shared between players.

Medium term – +/- three months:



Rise up through the ranks of Hubworld

• Players will have the ability to progress up through successive Hubworld levels.
• Each group of four gods earns the right to progress up a Hubworld level.
• One god from each Hubworld will be voted up to the next Hubworld where they will meet three other gods, each drawn from different Hubworlds in the same way.
• Gameplay changes dramatically between levels. For example, in a higher level Hubworld, each player’s Followers will trade blows in Gladiatorial-style combat.

Long term – further out:



Inter-God communication

• It is our aim for players to use Hubworld as a tool enabling them to communicate with each other in-game.

3. Gifts from God

Medium term – +/- three months:



Due in version 2.1

Gifts help bring your civilisation to life

• Players will be able to see Followers reacting to any Gifts you place in the world with appropriate responses.
• Gifts will make your world more beautiful and personalised.
• Examples include the Lovers Bench and the Maypole, both of which will increase the Happiness level of your Followers.

Gifts will improve the Happiness level of your Followers

• Happiness is a new resource represented by a unique bar that reflects the emotional well-being of your Followers and will deplete over time, requiring you to continually improve the morale of your civilisation through Gifts.
• Different happiness levels will lead to different unique behaviours from your followers.
• Gifts are purchased with Belief.

4. Commandments

Medium term – +/- three months:



Determine the behaviour and morality of your Followers

• Players will unlock cards as they progress through the game – some will be unlocked at set intervals and others will be unlocked by specific actions triggered by the player.
• Each Commandment card will instruct the player to make a choice that will have ramifications throughout the rest of the game.
• These choices will affect how your Followers behave with each other and interact with the world.

5. New Voyages of Discovery

Medium term – +/- three months:



New set of Voyages

• Each new Voyage of Discovery will come with its own set of rewards.
• Rewards for new Voyages will include new and rare stickers, cards, Gifts and unique items (e.g. new Followers).

Deliver additional new Voyages more frequently

• Our current goal is to ramp up to the point where we are releasing one brand new Voyage per week.

Long term – further out:



Multiplayer Voyages of Discovery

• Players from different Homeworlds will be able to compete with each other for rewards.

6. Imperial Age



Medium term – +/- three months:

Targeting delivery for v2.1.

Civilise your Followers

• The Imperial Age will see your settlements evolve into fully fledged towns.

Expand your influence

• Followers in this Age will want to be expansionists and explore the world.

Improved Settlement mechanics

• Settlements in the Imperial Age will be expanded and allow players to see the boundaries of Settlements before they are placed in the world.

Reach new heights in Hubworld

• This Age will also include next level of Hubworld.

7. Lots and Lots of Additional Features



Long term – work will start at end of summer/beginning of autumn:

• Wildlife – Reintroduce wildlife to the game, including wolves.
• Fishing – Introduce fish to the world and fishing as an activity Followers carry out by themselves.
• New settlements – Introduce new types of settlements that reflect the Age the player has reached in-game.
• Encourage beautiful landscapes – Further incentivise players to create beautiful landscapes using Belief as a reward.
• World events – These occur server-side and impact everybody playing Godus. For example, a great flood that would affect everyone’s Homeworlds.
• New mechanics for Hubworld – Implement a new competitive and/or co-operative game mechanics for each level of Hubworld, as players work their way up the levels to ultimately challenge the God of Gods!
• Battles – Rework and re-implement multiplayer battles. New God powers – Introduce powerful and spectacular God powers, including the mighty meteor!
• Story mode – Revisit the single-player story mode and move it forwards into Godus 2.0.
• Refine PC User Interface – Take a second look at the GUI for PC and see where improvements can be made for mouse-and-keyboard driven gameplay.
• Improve PC user experience – Refine existing design decisions and uniquely improve the PC version of Godus to create deeper and strategic gameplay.

A question for the community

As you can see, we’ve no small amount of work ahead of us in the weeks and months to come (and that’s just for 2014!). As such, we’d appreciate your input on the order in which we focus on a couple of features.

Multiplayer Battles vs New God Powers:
Would you prefer us to focus on reintroducing multiplayer battles before we implement a new God power, or would you prefer the new God power first?



Please speak up on the Steam discussion forum and let us know on which of the two features you’d like us to focus on first and – much like a dutiful Follower – thy will be done!

- 22cans