GODUS sails past £450,000 Kickstarter goal

22cans’ GODUS has reached its Kickstarter funding target of £450,000 and with 32 hours still to go stands at £473,602.

This means the first additional stretch goal has already been reached, but there’s several more for Molyneux and his team to aim for, as detailed below by the 22cans Kickstarter update.

£460k – 3 additional single and multiplayer game modes

Whilst we are basing the main inspiration for our competitive multiplayer on Populous and Dungeon Keeper, we would love to explore our land-sculpting and weather technology to inspire some brand new and exciting game modes! With some extra funding, we can test out some super unique competitive gameplay and then get it in front of you, the backers, in our early beta play tests. You guys can then tell us the features you think have the potential to make the final cut.

£475k – Begin your own sect. A deep social and competitive feature

We would love to expand even further on the previously mentioned clans with a very deep social and competitive feature. With more funding, you will have the choice of starting your own religion or joining an existing one. As the leader of a religion you can have other players join under you as chapters, and your individual successes will be shared amongst the religion members, with you as leader benefiting greatly. Otherwise, you can join an existing religion as a chapter to receive smaller but more secure benefits. A strong leader will draw in many players to join them, but joining up to an existing religion will more likely bring success. The success you receive is determined by the average success of a religion however, so choose wisely, as large numbers does not necessarily mean overwhelming success. Players will be ranked within a religion, but all players within a religion must also work together to move their religion up in the rankings overall. We hope to expand greatly on this feature, so help us reach our stretch goal!

£485k – JAMES LEACH writes game story. Original, Bafta award winning writer of Black and White

We will be in a position to call on the services and talents of James Leach, the BAFTA-winning original writer for Black & White, Populous: The Beginning, Dungeon Keeper, Fable, Theme Hospital and dozens more. He’ll write the GODUS story, create unique on-line content and will collaborate with, and integrate the best and most original ideas provided by any backers who fancy getting involved and writing themselves some gaming history.

£500k – Multiplayer CO-OP and POSSESSION MODE. 1st person world crafting

We have competitive multiplayer in GODUS, but as we have discussed in our design videos, we would love to expand into Cooperative Gameplay. Something we would love to develop, and then play test with backers, is to have gods teaming up to control one set of followers battling against other pairs of gods. We would have epic team God vs. God matches in online multiplayer, as well as two players teaming up to fight AI gods in campaign battles. In addition we want players to be able to invite other gods into their home-world so that they can join each other in sculpting their lands and growing their populations.

£550k – Linux and OUYA console supported

We love OUYA and LINUX and we’re especially excited by the former, which is a platform being born out of Kickstarter. Unquestionably it will be a challenge to build GODUS for the OUYA platform, especially with a controller, but it’d be breaking exciting new ground and we’re confident we’ll make this work.

According to Kickstarter tracker, Kicktraq, GODUS will end just short of £490,000 which means we’ll get James Leach, BAFTA award winning writer of Black and White, penning the game’s story.

Source: Kickstarter