Populous meet your Godus
 

Project GODUS a reinvention of a genre

I enjoyed the god game Populous, as one of the first games on my Amiga. Along side of Marble Madness, Lemmings, Battle Chess, Aargh!, The Bard's Tale, Defender of the Crown and my NewTek Demo, Populous was a staple.

Shameless plug follows.... the mind behind Populous, Dungeon Keeper and Black & White has proposed a multi-player multi-platform god game on Kickstarter right now. ...but time is ticking.

If you're interested in a followup to those little red and blue walkers you might check out their Kickstarter project HERE.

I've seen this spoiler about the new Molyneux' game here and there around and, other considerations beside the point, I've not seen anywhere the name Powermonger mentioned. Meh.

Sorry, Molyneux should have enough money to fund this expensive game himself. I'll give money to a moneyless beggar, but not to a millionaire beggar.

Jesus, half a million. That's 1 year's wages for 20 people.

That's true. Money for Molyneux on Kickstarter? :nuts

From the information I can read on the kickstarter page and their website, I have the feeling it is more like an indie company made of people who have worked with Molyneux at one time or another and who managed to have his patroning (in order to get more attention I guess).

Molyneux will probably have no role to play, except for communication.


You can still ask why he would not help them financially directly (or why they didn't ask him). Actually, those who have a facebook/twitter account could probably do that, so that there is no doubt left.

Interesting, but way short on details. I agree with the others here, why doesn't Peter just fund this game himself?

So this just came on my iOS feed iOS and it isn't that great, i of course hate the micropayment scheme, basically makes it unplayable, and they went for that "dumbed down low poly" look that is so vogue now.

Black and White was a much, much better game and worthy successor to Populous than this will ever be, sadly :(

There isnt anything remotely innovative or groundbreaking about this. The game start is even a poor rip off from Black and White!

Godus turned out to be a total disaster :( http://kotaku.com/why-peter-molyneux...ter-1685539932

I have my hopes on this one now: Universim https://theuniversim.com/

I guess that as long as Molyneux is involved, we can't trust a project.

Universum looks good but maybe too much like Simcity. I should really just get a used copy of Black and White and play that through, it is such a great game.

huh?

I have such mixed feelings about Molyneux, on one hand I really appreciate what he's created in the past, populous, black and white.. On the other hand he seems to lack focus on core mechanics, almost like he forgets people actually have to play his games rather than just talk about them..