General Godus discussion

yup

Yep.

Why oh why do I continue to have this sinking feeling that the PC Sprint will be nothing more than a "slap some sloppy crap together so we technically kinda-sorta meet our Kickstarter promises" bullcrap.

Anyone know when George is supposed to be back?
Also - I'd find the idea oddly hilarious if George's "Vacation" wasn't actually a vacation. (Don't get me wrong, I don't wish the guy out of a job, it'd just fit into the rest of the situation in a very morbidly hilarious manner...)


And yea, I've been pretty convinced of the nature of this PC Sprint based off of information available to us for a while now.
There's always hoping ofcourse - but it seemed unlikely that this leopard would suddenly change its spots.
Especially given the need to focus on retention with their iOS release.


*edit*
Another general observation with is slightly off-topic, but does apply to the logic behind Godus.
We all know that time and time again the argument is given that certain features are purposefully being kept out of Godus out of the fear that making the game too complicated or too difficult would scare off a lot of the casual audience.

When I came across *this* article earlier today I realized that most big-hit titles on both iOS and android actually do not fit that requirement.
Infact, most of the big titles out there - be it Candy Crush, Cookie Clicker, Flappy Bird or otherwise - are very VERY punishing.
Oh sure, they often are simple in their design, there's not a lot to them. But they are far from easy and you'd imagine that a game so hard, a game almost impossible to properly play and complete. Would scare off all these so-called casual players.
Yet its these really hard games (almost rogue-like in nature) that draw in and retain most players.

Infact, I'd go as far as to say that the rogue-like genre as a whole would probably do wonderfully well on mobile devices (if it doesn't do so already) because rogue-like is build around the idea that you *WILL* die. You will have to start over sooner rather than later.
Which connects perfectly with the entire coffee-break gaming mentality applied to mobile devices. You pick up your device, you play for a bit, you drop it again and any progress lost is either negligable or irrelevant.

Ofcourse Godus lacks this... But its atleast one reason for 22cans to ramp up the difficulty and change the nature of their game. If its their desire to somehow reach these players.

George's return:
"Wait, you guys made me look like an ass not releasing the balance modding tool? Wtf guys?"
~22cans silence or chittering like Astari~
"No seriously guys, what's all this-"
~point to some forum blowback~
"Really? This is my welcome back?"
~plug him into brainwasher~
"Hi guys sorry about a, b, and c, here is preprocessed narrative. Please appreciate and speak civilly."
~rinse and repeat~

Or they reached a point of "Well, we know we have to focus on mobile, they know we have to focus on mobile - anything we say at this point is just going to make things worse, Peter just did another interview that was pretty darned telling - lets just hide till the professionals return."

13thGeneral, you trickster. I ran through the rest of the existing build (with cheats, because fuck the balance) to see if leashing followers into the Astari village would spark an old school follower smackdown...Only for them to do nothing. =|

Yeah... I played through the entire "game" and the Astari did Jack Squat.

Yeah?  I accidentally killed mine.  I thought let's have a bit of a meteor attach on those pesky Astari, sent one down and they all ran around burning then they were no more.  I just wanted to stop the bastards grabbing my folk whilst I was away.