17/04/2015 - Daily Dev Activity - 16th April 2015

Someone needs to put this game out of its pitiful misery. It's been suffering for years now, slipping in and out of a coma, experiencing bouts of amnesia and dementia, cutting off appendages and declining advised medication.

Just let go, 22Cans, and allow Godus head into the light; and then turn yourself in to the authorities for abusing the community and poisoning the game they helped you create.

I call it how I see it. I stopped pulling my punches and holding back on the heavy handed criticism when it became severely and clearly obvious they were not truly interested in (or capable of) trying to deliver. That's the most honest opinion of where I am presently; I'm done giving the sniveling bully any more airtime or leeway. The time for counter action is now; the media shouldn't wait for the remainder of the 6-9 month timetable PM claimed to need to deliver. Message to those holding out hope: it ain't gonna happen. Ever. Whatever we end up with will be an abomination of a game, so long as it remains in PM's greasy palms.

So in the last comms blackout the CMs left. Now we another with directors leaving? Something is a foot at 22cans.

The first one I remember was while they worked on settlements.

These silences have never been followed by good news.

I hope they are being quiet ready for the combat release, but maybe PM has handed out 22 P45s (End of employment forms).

More than just the pink bubbles - it had gems. As far as I remember, they were there before anything else.

Supposedly 22cans does some form of Agile / Scrum. At least, according to them. And you know what? In Agile development, you have to do exactly that.

It's called a daily standup (or scrum meeting), where you briefly described 3 things: what you did yesterday, what you're going to do today, and whether or not there's any issue blocking you from doing your work. Takes 10 minutes tops (probably even less, given their small team size). It's really useful. I did it at my last job, and I've even done it on&off on my own. If they were actually doing this, all they'd need to do is have someone taking notes during standup & post them (again, at my last job we'd sometimes do this to supply our clients w/daily updates of what the team was doing). 

"gathering information was a challenge... repeating info... vague info.."

Well, now he knows how we feel. Lol.

I wasn't a fan of the daily updates anyhow, for the reasons stated, and new it couldn't be sustained for very long.

With that said, even when you put a week or two worth of the past updates together, there is very little meaningful info - almost no progress in 3 months dev time. So far we've been in this "Combat Sprint" for months (since... November?), and at thus pace it's going to take several more years to add the remaining missing pieces.
It's just a matter of time before the Godus project collapses, because there's no way they can maintain revenue much longer.

Who delegates the work flow assignments? It's not a good thing when - with just a handful of staff - you can't even keep track of what's being done. How can that result in any cohesive design when your team is so fractured? Will the weekly updates really be any more quantified with quality than a culmination of the quantity of dailies? I can't see that being the case.

Honestly, it's got to be really stressful for those few dedicated assigned to "complete" Godus. They must know it's essentially a lost cause by now, sorry to say. Time to stop hanging on and find a more assured position someplace else. Trust a habitually unemployed designer, the longer you linger the more painful the inevitable will be; choose your own destiny and let Godus go. Chalk it up to a very valuable lesson and go work on something you'll be proud of.

I hear the VR industry is growing...

A word of advice for our ever jubilant 22Cans Godus Community team... Mayhaps, in the future, it would be wise to share these types of changes BEFORE you implement them, not days/weeks after the fact.  

I would not qualify myself as experienced with programming to any great extent, but judging from the workload intern programmers/coders have pushed out at our company, not even counting the professional, on-staff ones, I'd say a single, inexperienced guy could easily slap together a "finished" version of the combat 22Cans have been telling us about. Konrad and Pavle may have been shifted to the Trial already, perhaps convinced under the auspices of needing money to continue developing Godus.

Here's the 22Cans Twitch stream, can anyone point out what's changed?

the next update mentioned someone named Anthony, but I don't know if that's even the same person.