Current Status of Godus and 22cans

Sadly, this project was barely out the Kickstarter gate when we began to get the realization that our hopes of seeing a true spiritual successor were being exploited.
We thought we were getting an Arabian Stallion, only instead to be presented a miniature donkey.

From Dust would be a good guess, but in From Dust, you cant directly influence your followers, just instructions. From Dust has that Uplay thing, which could be why most people avoid it.

From Dust on Chrome is just the Trial version of the game.

I think technically, Godus could easily be a flash game or whatever type of format From Dust is on Chrome. The reason why they don't do it, is because that would cut into their sales. If they released it, on Chrome, they would have to put up the version from mobile, so microtransations would play a big part in it, just like on mobile. They would have to split the development into 3, Mobile, Steam and Browser. Which would probably be another nail in Godus' coffin.

The big problems with Godus, is that its not making money for 22cans, that is why its not their main priority. Thats the main reason they went mobile. I wonder what would have happened if those stretch goals were never reached. Furthermore, I think they shot themselves in the foot when they choose the engine Godus is running on, since it not exactly visually impressive like From Dust (it has a unique art style), but I think it limits them gameplay wise as well. Since I read somewhere that in the Marmalade engine its hard to code multiplayer.

Another problem is that Godus has no real direction its heading, and it shows, since when I bought it back in 2013, it was said everything was almost finished, that future stages were just locked away because of bugs. That multiplayer and the Jupiter sized planet (Lets be honest its technically almost impossible, since the land is hand crafted last time I checked and it would take ages to even orbit that planet if it was in the current Godus engine, and you could only run it on a freaking spaceship).But here we are a revamp and several sprints later, and we barely advanced an age, which only changed the building. Combat, I remember, was in 1.3, if you can call it that, it was just in the minigame where you fought fake friends, the people would wait until the timer is done then start smacking each other until everyone on the other team was dead.
It disappeared after the revamp and now almost a year later, we have 4 people working on it and what is their main goal? Finish the game. Like they have been promising to do in 2013. That goal is almost impossible since they have a lack of resources and people, and what really is the main goal of the devs at this point? Implementing all the ages? Making a jupiter sized planet? A real resource system? I don't think any of those goals are likely to happen in the next few months or the next year.

It really baffles me with Unity as the obvious go-to engine for EVERYTHING that they pitched they would ignore it in favour of Marmalard.  Banking your contractual obligations on future SDK development that doesn't exist in its current form is a patently stupid mistake to make.  
If they went with Unity, they would not only be able to fulfill their contractual obligations, but also be able to offer Godus upon a wider audience than they previously were aiming at - including consoles - relatively easily.

That would have been the ultimate decision (as per the job) of Tim Rance, the "Technical Director" - or one of those lovely design dictations by the publisher, DeNA.

Then again, we've also pointed out how refunding the Kickstarter - which Peter claimed to have still on-hand a few months ago and that he made more from the publisher - would completely absolve 22cans of those contractual obligations, but they seem more intent on appearing completely incompetent.

Probably about the same time someone makes a Linux version that programs a good god game by itself.

My guess is they chose marmalade because Peter liked the way it rolled off his tongue.

Figures since now with combat, their implementing stuff that wasn't in the engine before, their having to making big changes to the code, so it would work, having inexperienced coders working on combat and Godus as a whole shows, especially the early 2.0 versions shows the big flaws in the game itself, with bugs and some elementary mistakes like the not being able to even quit the game properly. I'm guessing the sticker system wasn't put it because its "good" its because they cant program a basic resource system, besides numbers increasing.

Upgrading to Unreal 4 for Godus would be overkill for 22cans.