29/05/2014 - Godus Roadmap - where are we headed?

Very interested to see how they actually do hubworlds. It could make for some very interesting and cool gameplay if they do it well.

Oh and in terms of the question at the end I'd rather they asked us open questions about game mechanics instead of prioritisation questions. In answer to the question id rather a god power assuming its a good and useful one. Multiplayer battles were a pretty pointless grind in 1.03 so not really that excited about their return. Should we set up a poll for this?

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.


Whats the advantage of happy people vs unhappy slaves

And gifts are purchased with belief, sure.

the image show diamonds/crystals/whatever  as payment
or is this for mobile?

I just don't understand why something like this took so long for them to put out, especially since it's such a generic synopsis/guideline. Also this part -

"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."

Yeah, I don't give a shit, to be honest. Your company is the one that brazenly posted this - "GODUS will take seven to nine months to complete" - right on the kickstarter page, so fuck your reiteration.

Gifts are basically just another 'investment opportunity' for the mobile user. Pretty much the whole thing sounds like what most of us expected at this point - this looks like a crapfest PTW-type mobile clicker. The only point where they address anything of real substance comes right at the end of 'long term', with 'Refine PC User Interface' and 'Improve PC user experience'. 'Refine existing design decisions' essentially means stickers and all are here to say, and they'll try and figure out how to make it work in a non-horrendous fashion maybe at the end of summer/beginning of Autumn, but they basically have no idea what they're gonna do and just hope to make it up as they go in a successful way, since that's worked out so well so far on this project.

Yeah. If only they'd completely split off mobile from PC. If they told me "We're going to spend up to a year from now on working on the mobile version and then we're going to completely cut back the PC version to sculpting and then we're going to build that game from scratch exactly the way that the backers want it." then I would say fine, I can wait a year, no problem, but then we get down to business and you do it our way.

Is anyone seeing anything of the PC-gamers feedback in this roadmap?

The PC gamers who funded the development of this game? And please, no one even bother trying to tell me that the publisher funded this. That is demonstrably untrue and no one wants to hear it.

I'm glad they published the roadmap because we have been asking for this, but the roadmap is bad news.



Thanks 22Cans. How about using an example of someone other than Peter Molyneux. PM is not exactly regarded as being a good example of someone who has made the best of this do-whatever-feels-right development approach, since he crashed ans burned with Godus. It's increasingly looking like his publishers and colleagues were actually the reason for the success of the other titles associated with his name.



Is this a joke? Who does this?



Anyone who believes this is on drugs or on the payroll.



First off, this is a lie. Unless "the last few months" is September 2013 to May 2014, which is 9 months. I wouldn't call that "a few". Secondly, I assume Matthew wrote this part? Whoever keeps talking about "polishing" versions of Godus needs to stop, because honestly this has become a synonym for "we're stalling" and it is recognised as such by the whole community.



How in the hell does this work? It's two completely different games? Or it isn't? Or WHAT? We're interacting with a bunch of people who didn't pay for the game but paid to speed it up, and somehow there is a balance of economy with those of us who paid for the game but have to wait for stuff, except THERE IS NO SHOP, and... what? How will this work? Did anyone think about this? has anyone asked Peter Molyneux these extremely obvious and relevant questions? Were they happy that his answer was to shrug and mumble that it will probably work out somehow?



So actually we cannot play Godus in single-player like we were promised.



Sounds gripping.

I've uninstalled Godus. I was just tired of the game before, but now I'm done. This might be a popular game for casual gamers, but it's not for me. Not where I wanted to see the game go.

(Posting here and not in the farewell thread cause I'll still hang out with the community a bit)

I look forward to your analysis.

absolutely this does nothing to change the good will meter - I too think that asking for our vote on 'priorities' is empty 'community involvement' at this stage. Basically I echo what everyone else is saying. meh. At some point soon I feel I'll be posting in the farewell thread (but not quite yet)