Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

[Nov 21, 2012, 4:32 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A new Kickstarter from 22cans seeks £450,000 for Project GODUS, a "reinvention of the god game" from this studio formed by Peter Molyneux, who pioneered the genre with Populous over two decades ago (thanks Joao). They are shooting for a release in about nine months, but will use funding beyond their target to extend the development schedule. Here's word:

Populous was created over 22 years ago, and we believe that to date, nothing has come close to emulating its powerfully godlike experience. It’s this experience we aim to reimagine. GODUS blends the power, growth and scope of Populous with the detailed construction and multiplayer excitement of Dungeon Keeper and the intuitive interface and technical innovation of Black & White. The original Populous hailed from the 8-bit era but GODUS will use the most modern technology the world has to offer.

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Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 16:22

Kosumo

The original Populous hailed from the 8-bit era but GODUS will use the most modern technology the world has to offer. Sweet, iphone 5 exculsive!

Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 16:13

Dev

Hmm, let me think... No. As others said, dungeon keeper (but EA's not ever going to let go of that IP). But that nutty stuff about "hit a button until something happens and pay $10,000 for a bigger hammer that hits harder" game killed any chance of me doing a kickstarter. Yeah, you release something FIRST then I'll buy it, if its any good. Also, it apparently took a studio of 19 people to release that Curiosity thing, WTF !?! And how exactly does the math go about keeping 19 of those people employed for an entire year that this game is supposed to take, on 450,000 pounds?

Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 16:02

Trevellian

Good luck with that.




-C22

Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 16:00

Gadzooks

Start a kickstarter for Dungeon Keeper 3, and ill fund it.

Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 15:54

mellis

To be fair when not shackled by the constraints of consoles, he might actually produce something pretty cool...

Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 15:47

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I am all for this, and will support this venture. I happen to enjoy his Black and White games, go Peter! Please make it like B&W, just add all sorts of functioning RTS elements into it, not just passive ones as were the key mechanics that broke your otherwise really nicely made games. I am also totally for oldschool developers to use Kickstarter as a medium, and proceed to bring their creations back to the forefront of PC Gaming, not this big publisher house fail attempts at making any good sequel that has bean counting as their game engines. Would love to see good old Westwood Studios back at Kickstarter. May EA , Activision, and Blizzard die a horrible death, you are no longer needed nor welcomed.

Re: Out of the Blue

Nov 21, 2012, 15:46

Rigs

Oh, so was this the 'surprise' from that 'curious cube' thing?

=-Rigs-=




'We talked about peace. You didn't want peace! We talked about cooperation. You didn't want cooperation! You want war! Is that it? You want a war? Well, you've got a war!'

Re: Peter Molyneux's God Game Kickstarter

Nov 21, 2012, 15:37

Zanthar

Sorry Pete, you're too much of a kook these days.

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