We've gone through Kickstarters and Steam Early Access - it's been an incredible journey up to this point.' It's been an amazing experience to go from being at Microsoft, having this idea, leaving Microsoft, setting up 22Cans, doing the crazy experiment with Curiosity so that we could get the technology which would mean that I could do that video, and here we are about four weeks away from the limited launch of iOS and turning that connection to all those people. When you realize over this hill, there's another god doing what you're doing and what's going to happen when you start to communicate.

'At the very start of the game, you don't feel like you're connected to anybody. Advancing from a primitive age over to the modern era. That's why the game Godus is all about sculpting, but it's about advancing your people. Really the dream and the passion Dan, is to create a game which firstly isn't going to just be over and done with in a ten hour play session, it is something which will exist and last. 'That's the incredible thing about the cloud and connecting - that you can support these incredible numbers. He takes it in his stride with a smile and launches a well-rehearsed patter. Peter is a man who's aware of his reputation, so I rib him gently about the 'modesty' of the sales pitch. It's classic Molyneux stuff - a gently narrated weave of suggestion and grandiose promises which is at once enticing and seemingly impossible. We've just watched the most recent trailer for 22 Cans' Godus, Molyneux's latest take on the genre he created with Populus in 1989. With the inventor of the god game genre perched next to me, I'm half-expecting a giant cursor to swoop in from one side of the vista and start plucking buildings from the ground, but California remains, inert yet bustling, as we look up from the screen of an iPad. Whole city blocks are reduced to low-poly squares shimmering in the heat haze and the hills beyond the city limits are flat textures - artificial boundaries for the sandbox we're spending the week in. Up here on the 29th floor of the Intercontinental, San Francisco is laid out beneath us like a child's sun-drenched playset. Note: Godus is an online simulation and requires a network connection to play.Sitting down on a sofa in Peter Molyneux's hotel room, we're presented by the most spectacular view. Come and start an incredible quest that’s waiting for you to make it your own. There has never been a god-like experience quite like this before, and it will continue to evolve as you do. Relax, design, sculpt and play with the sandbox landscape or challenge the quest and uncover a wealth of mysteries and surprises waiting to be found across epic worlds, above and below the landscape.

What kind of god you are? Be kind and sculpt rivers build monuments and craft forests, or be destructive by throwing meteors and spreading fires? Be aware as the quest sometimes requires you to be cruel rather than kind!

Ĝast epic miracles of both beauty and destruction.

Teach your followers to build and mine and unlock new technologies.

Nurture the growth of a civilization as it rises from the dawn of the primitive age and advances throughout the ages of humanity.

Build and craft their living quarters, design their surroundings, sculpt and beautify their land and encourage happiness among the community.

Ěs a god, aim to care for your Followers.

Watch them live, learn, and grow in a magic world simulation.

Ěs a god, be loved and worshiped by tiny, devoted Followers.

Use your touch to physically design, mine, craft and sculpt every inch of the landscape, making the design unique to you.

Feel truly powerful in an epic award-winning simulation of the most delightful, charming and tactile world you have ever held in your hands. It is as SIMPLE to play with as it is AWE-INSPIRING to behold.

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