Peter Molyneux would like your money to make a new god-sim on Kickstarter
By Tim Colwill on November 22, 2012 at 2:04 pm
It’s all about Kickstarter lately it seems, and now the delightfully eccentric Peter Molyneux is jumping on the bandwagon with Godus, a god-sim that aims to recapture the glory days of Populous with all new technology.
The team’s Kickstarter Project page is asking for £450,00, with £33,060 already pledged by just over 1300 people at the time of writing. The mininum pledge to get a copy of the game, which is estimated for delivery in September 2013, is £15. Take a look at the video below and see if you’re moved!
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I don’t know, Peter. Your earlier sims at Bullfrog (and arguably Lionhead) were pretty good, but you really lost the plot while making the Fable series. By that I mean, you seem to have too much ambition and not enough focus; constantly trying to make the game be 10 different things when it only needs to be 1 thing, resulting in something that’s ultimately mediocre and forgettable.
pretty much…
Just what we need. More toilet humor.
Much applause to you, Peter.
Wouldnotkickstart/10
If there’s one kickstarter that you KNOW isn’t going to deliver what it promises then it HAS to be the Peter Molyneux one… the guy just babbles circlejerk ideas and then never even tries to implement them in game, he’s like all the worst MMO developers rolled into one person.
Peak kickstarter is definitely getting closer…. That’s 2 projects in 2 days that are a little underwhelming. This presentation is better than the Thorvalla one though, but Mr Molyneaux’s track record in the past decade has been a little shaky.
I may cave in though and jump on later because $25 isn’t a huge amount, and if I can get a day or two’s worth of enjoyment out of it in that time then that’s kinda money well spent.
Keep thinking of Peter though and just thinking “hrmmmmm really?”
I think I might throw down $15 just because this guy is a fruitcake.
Yeah I’m going to throw this guy money. Right after I roll up any $50 notes I have in my wallet, fill them with tea leaves, light them up and smoke them. I’d say the combined chemicals released may waste enough brain cells that I’ll start considering putting some dosh his direction.
does no one want a new populous type game? i know i do
bsuters,
I’m sure we all would love one. Not sure about putting Mr Moly-doesn’t at the helm though. He’s got a rather long track record now of making promises on gameplay mechanics that never see the light of day.
What, is this guy struggling? He can’t fund his own project?
Looks like a cynical cash-grab before the huge let-down that the curiosity “experiment” will deliver.
I’m keen.
Populous I/II/Powemonger
Syndicate
Theme Park
Dungeon Keeper
Black & White
All great games.
God games never get made by lame major studios who basically want the next monetized FPS game every time, so Kickstarter could be great for this (as with RTS, i.e., Planetary Annihilation).
In like the proverbial Flynn.
“Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here. This game will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me.”
I’m interested in buying it when it’s released.
I just can’t get into Kickstarter with its buy now, get the game a year later thing. A lot can happen in a year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Rq6H7m9Eg
Why didn’t this go viral lol.
Seems like it’s easier to just get funding through Kickstarter now no matter who you are, there’s a lot of well known and experienced devs using it recently who really should have no business doing so.
I’m actually wondering if a continuing trend will end up making kickstarter a BAD thing for the game industry, perhaps companies are going to be less and less willing to shell out money for big projects.
That would be good, imo…
I don’t know about that, it could wind up with developers being on the sharp end of Kickstarter going south. Consider it this way, it may make many publishers decide “yeah we’ll publish that game you’re developing, but why should we pay you too much if you can just use Kickstarter?”
That said it does seem to turn things around a lot and lift a lot of the risk associated with game development. If you publish a game that’s had a successful Kickstarter then it’s more likely the people want this game and more likely sales will be successful. Especially if it’s not just successful but wildly successful, like Star Citizen for example.
The major studios have fundamentally failed to innovate in recent years, so anything which opens up more innovation in gaming (especially PC gaming) is great IMHO.
I actually think this will have the opposite effect.
People will make games like Star Citizen and Planetary Annihilation (and hopefully this game) and make plenty of cash out of them. The “industry” will then realise that it is losing money to kickstarter-funded games because those games have things that aren’t offered by major studio games (i.e. innovation, a dedication to ‘pure’ gaming rather than ‘accessibility’ and lowest common denominator mass market appeal), and perhaps… perhaps, the gaming industry will move to a more mature phase.
At the moment, I think major studios mostly release the equivalent of typical Hollywood blockbusters. Mostly brainless, fairly entertaining, high budget, nice looking games. I think the next great era of gaming will involve more and more games which are the equivalent of arthouse and indie movies. Eventually, I hope we reach a point where the gaming equivalent of the Godfather and Inception can be made by a major studio…