It's been an extraordinary month! We've launched GODUS on Steam Early Access and since then we've released five updates (1.2.1 which saw bug fixes, 1.3 which was a content update and the remaining 1.3.1 updates have been more bug fixes). We've been diligent in working through your feedback.

Peter and Jack give feedback on the feedback you've all been sending us. They talk about Followers, the new cards system and also analytics.

Watch the video on our YouTube channel.

The last couple of days we've been trying to do regular updates on Twitter in a series we're calling GODUS DEV SAYS, they're only small snippets of information but they do give you an insight into the daily routine of developing games. You can find them on our Twitter feed

It's been an extraordinary month! We've launched GODUS on Steam Early Access and since then we've released five updates (1.2.1 which saw bug fixes, 1.3 which was a content update and the remaining 1.3.1 updates have been more bug fixes). We've been diligent in working through your feedback.

Peter and Jack give feedback on the feedback you've all been sending us. They talk about Followers, the new cards system and also analytics.

Watch the video on our YouTube channel.

The last couple of days we've been trying to do regular updates on Twitter in a series we're calling GODUS DEV SAYS, they're only small snippets of information but they do give you an insight into the daily routine of developing games. You can find them on our Twitter feed

1.3.1 Bug Fixes

• Farmers will now recognise a field and Abode as their own
  
• Crash fix for game hanging on Mac on start-up
  
• Chests will always reward cards
  
• Fixed a crash caused by loading the game while a storm was occurring
  
• Damaged Abodes will not have a Belief bubble
  
• Fixed Advanced cards disappearing from Scrapbook
  
• Settlement vision radius increased for Followers to see available jobs
  
• Land Expansion Shrines are now repairable at sea level
  
• Roads no longer go through farms
  
• Scrapbook content page will update your era progress
  
• Fixed repeating notification sound when you complete 20/20 of the Mount of the Gods

1.3.1 Known Issues

• Windows version will sometimes crash with s3e_debug_simulator error
  
• Sometimes the Mac version will load with texture errors
  
• Sometimes the Mac version will hardlock after 30 minutes of inactivity
  
• Looks like there are two cards spinning over Land Expansion Shrines
  
• Land expansion shrine has no scaffolding
  
• Difficult to see if Farms are selected to be moved with Town Planning
  
• Lens flare from beams remains on Shrines
  
• Special Followers will sometimes play female Follower sprog sound FX
  
• Named Followers are randomly assigned a gender
  
• Some VFX are not affected by nighttime
  
• GODUS icon is low resolution
  
• The final paragraph in the scrapbook does not fade in
  
• Cannot quit game when cards are on-screen
  
• Wheat is static in the wind
  
• Roads to farms do not always appear
  
• Statue of Speed FX can appear overblown
  
• Sometimes there is an audio bug when returning to Homeworld mid-Multiplayer battle
  
• Info bubble for a Settlement will sometimes not appear if the info bubble is already open on another Settlement
  
• Sometimes the Wheat icon will be transparent in the Settlement info bubble
  
• Champions drown with too much of their body out of the swamp
  
• Followers are not distracted by sculpting when returning home
  
• If Followers are very far from the Totem, they could get stuck while navigating
  
• The system mouse cursor will appear along with the GODUS cursor at the top of the screen
  
• Quitting from Multiplayer will give the other player rewards

1.3.1 Bug Fixes

• Farmers will now recognise a field and Abode as their own
  
• Crash fix for game hanging on Mac on start-up
  
• Chests will always reward cards
  
• Fixed a crash caused by loading the game while a storm was occurring
  
• Damaged Abodes will not have a Belief bubble
  
• Fixed Advanced cards disappearing from Scrapbook
  
• Settlement vision radius increased for Followers to see available jobs
  
• Land Expansion Shrines are now repairable at sea level
  
• Roads no longer go through farms
  
• Scrapbook content page will update your era progress
  
• Fixed repeating notification sound when you complete 20/20 of the Mount of the Gods

1.3.1 Known Issues

• Windows version will sometimes crash with s3e_debug_simulator error
  
• Sometimes the Mac version will load with texture errors
  
• Sometimes the Mac version will hardlock after 30 minutes of inactivity
  
• Looks like there are two cards spinning over Land Expansion Shrines
  
• Land expansion shrine has no scaffolding
  
• Difficult to see if Farms are selected to be moved with Town Planning
  
• Lens flare from beams remains on Shrines
  
• Special Followers will sometimes play female Follower sprog sound FX
  
• Named Followers are randomly assigned a gender
  
• Some VFX are not affected by nighttime
  
• GODUS icon is low resolution
  
• The final paragraph in the scrapbook does not fade in
  
• Cannot quit game when cards are on-screen
  
• Wheat is static in the wind
  
• Roads to farms do not always appear
  
• Statue of Speed FX can appear overblown
  
• Sometimes there is an audio bug when returning to Homeworld mid-Multiplayer battle
  
• Info bubble for a Settlement will sometimes not appear if the info bubble is already open on another Settlement
  
• Sometimes the Wheat icon will be transparent in the Settlement info bubble
  
• Champions drown with too much of their body out of the swamp
  
• Followers are not distracted by sculpting when returning home
  
• If Followers are very far from the Totem, they could get stuck while navigating
  
• The system mouse cursor will appear along with the GODUS cursor at the top of the screen
  
• Quitting from Multiplayer will give the other player rewards

1.3 New and Improved Features

• Flow completed recrafted, much less meaningless clicking
  
• Enter the Bronze Age and era of agriculture.
  
• 12 New Bronze age advances including Farming, Politics and Cartography.
  
• 8 New Resource cards to collect
  
• 8 New God Cards to collect
  
• New unlocks to increase your Area of Influence, speed up followers and cheaper settlements
  
• Unlock a new Farmer Follower and grow your civilisation through agriculture
  
• Farmers will grow crops outside of settlements for the population
  
• Crops are gathered to feed your population and advance your civilisation
  
• Choose the most fertile and efficient land for your crops
  
• Dynamic weather system where lightning storms will bombard your
• Homeworld, damaging Abodes not in a settlement
  
• Sprogging centralised within settlements rather than on individual Abodes
  
• Sprogging from Abodes only available when the Followers have a job
  
• Abodes inside a settlement now have second stories allowing much greater capacity and Belief.
  
• Multiplayer balanced so that enemy followers will not fight each other as you plan dominance
  
• New scrapbook hints
  
• Felt tents no longer produce Belief and instead house more Followers and have faster Follower generation
  
• Faster info bubbles
  
• New God Power icons
  
• Followers share their thoughts and needs via Prayers
  
• Beam added to Shrines within Area of Influence
  
• All battle maps quicker to fight
  
• Totem rebalanced to reduce number of Followers
  
• Finger of God is now more effective
  
• Townlife is now more meaningful
  
• New gem seams added to Homeworld
  
• Rebalanced trees and rocks

1.3 Bug Fixes

• Various crash fixes including crashes on startup for both Mac and Windows
  
• Fixes for crashes related to Settlements
  
• Beautified land will remain beautified after exiting the game
  
• Previously used Resource Cards given back for removed Advance Cards
  
• Followers will no longer walk slowly on land that was previous blighted
  
• Temple of Fertility statue is now actually on the temple
  
• Settlements will always generate Belief
  
• Settlement roads will re-draw after Abodes are moved
  
• Followers on fire will die even when on Beautified land or in a Settlement
  
• New opening flyover
  
• Shrines are now more distinctive
  
• Belief gain modified to be slower when game is shut down
  
• God Power icons crisper
  
• Villagers will recover correctly after being in water then rescued
  
• Crash when attacking a Castle in Story Battle fixed
  
• “FULL” from Abode info no longer getting stuck on screen
  
• Belief musical chain “fail” will not play after collecting only one Belief bubble
  
• Collecting Belief from a Settlement will continue the musical chain
  
• Bach’s First Prelude now plays in full
  
• Shrubs on Statue of Settlement shadow fixed
  
• Statue of Settlement no longer floating
  
• Statue of Settlement destruction crash fixed
  
• Statue of Settlement door is blue in Homeworld
  
• Statue of Settlement flag will be striped with sprogging is available
  
• Fix for odd behaviour of Followers from Settlement sprogging
  
• Mining is now more significant to Followers
  
• Z-fighting on Settlement base fixed
  
• Flag SFX will play on Settlement
  
• Failsafe against Armageddon being usable in Homeworld
  
• Shrines will continue to build after exiting the game
  
• Totem number will not remain on screen when Totem is deactivated
  
• Card descriptions on Felt Tents and Permanent Abodes changed to reflect new functionality
  
• Fixed lighting on Abodes and fences
  
• Fixed Followers getting stuck at Totem
  
• Belief and Follower info dialogue removed on Abodes in a Settlement
  
• SFX volume cannot be set to NULL

1.3 New and Improved Features

• Flow completed recrafted, much less meaningless clicking
  
• Enter the Bronze Age and era of agriculture.
  
• 12 New Bronze age advances including Farming, Politics and Cartography.
  
• 8 New Resource cards to collect
  
• 8 New God Cards to collect
  
• New unlocks to increase your Area of Influence, speed up followers and cheaper settlements
  
• Unlock a new Farmer Follower and grow your civilisation through agriculture
  
• Farmers will grow crops outside of settlements for the population
  
• Crops are gathered to feed your population and advance your civilisation
  
• Choose the most fertile and efficient land for your crops
  
• Dynamic weather system where lightning storms will bombard your
• Homeworld, damaging Abodes not in a settlement
  
• Sprogging centralised within settlements rather than on individual Abodes
  
• Sprogging from Abodes only available when the Followers have a job
  
• Abodes inside a settlement now have second stories allowing much greater capacity and Belief.
  
• Multiplayer balanced so that enemy followers will not fight each other as you plan dominance
  
• New scrapbook hints
  
• Felt tents no longer produce Belief and instead house more Followers and have faster Follower generation
  
• Faster info bubbles
  
• New God Power icons
  
• Followers share their thoughts and needs via Prayers
  
• Beam added to Shrines within Area of Influence
  
• All battle maps quicker to fight
  
• Totem rebalanced to reduce number of Followers
  
• Finger of God is now more effective
  
• Townlife is now more meaningful
  
• New gem seams added to Homeworld
  
• Rebalanced trees and rocks

1.3 Bug Fixes

• Various crash fixes including crashes on startup for both Mac and Windows
  
• Fixes for crashes related to Settlements
  
• Beautified land will remain beautified after exiting the game
  
• Previously used Resource Cards given back for removed Advance Cards
  
• Followers will no longer walk slowly on land that was previous blighted
  
• Temple of Fertility statue is now actually on the temple
  
• Settlements will always generate Belief
  
• Settlement roads will re-draw after Abodes are moved
  
• Followers on fire will die even when on Beautified land or in a Settlement
  
• New opening flyover
  
• Shrines are now more distinctive
  
• Belief gain modified to be slower when game is shut down
  
• God Power icons crisper
  
• Villagers will recover correctly after being in water then rescued
  
• Crash when attacking a Castle in Story Battle fixed
  
• “FULL” from Abode info no longer getting stuck on screen
  
• Belief musical chain “fail” will not play after collecting only one Belief bubble
  
• Collecting Belief from a Settlement will continue the musical chain
  
• Bach’s First Prelude now plays in full
  
• Shrubs on Statue of Settlement shadow fixed
  
• Statue of Settlement no longer floating
  
• Statue of Settlement destruction crash fixed
  
• Statue of Settlement door is blue in Homeworld
  
• Statue of Settlement flag will be striped with sprogging is available
  
• Fix for odd behaviour of Followers from Settlement sprogging
  
• Mining is now more significant to Followers
  
• Z-fighting on Settlement base fixed
  
• Flag SFX will play on Settlement
  
• Failsafe against Armageddon being usable in Homeworld
  
• Shrines will continue to build after exiting the game
  
• Totem number will not remain on screen when Totem is deactivated
  
• Card descriptions on Felt Tents and Permanent Abodes changed to reflect new functionality
  
• Fixed lighting on Abodes and fences
  
• Fixed Followers getting stuck at Totem
  
• Belief and Follower info dialogue removed on Abodes in a Settlement
  
• SFX volume cannot be set to NULL

Beta Update v1.2.1 released on 17th September, 2013.

Make sure after updating you verify the integrity of the game file (Right click Godus -> Properties -> Local Files -> Verify) and restart Steam.

• Followers will now build past 2000+ Followers
  
• Multi-clicking on Gem bug removed
  
• Multiple Steam profiles and saves now supported
  
• Rubble takes fewer clicks to clear (2 instead of 5)
  
• List of resolutions updated in options menu
  
• Fixed 0x0 resolution bug
  
• Removed debug editor option from F8
  
• Raised limit on placement of settlements to 10
  
• Fixed bug where settlements stop working after save/load
  
• Speed of followers to Totem increased by 10%
  
• Re-balanced the birth rate of rank 4-6 Abodes
  
• Graphical improvements to the battle map screen
  
• Shaders corrected on trees – beautify now more beautiful
  
• Contours shadows added on Landscape
  
• Abodes now only eject 1 follower at a time
  
• Less tripping of Followers animation
  
• Improved water surface
  
• Improved follower terrain response
  
• State of the Gem mine now saves
  
• Rebalancing of Gems in the mine
  
• Preparing the world for Bronze age farming
  
• Various icon revisions
  
• Various text updates
  
• Various crash fixes

Beta Update v1.2.1 released on 17th September, 2013.

Make sure after updating you verify the integrity of the game file (Right click Godus -> Properties -> Local Files -> Verify) and restart Steam.

• Followers will now build past 2000+ Followers
  
• Multi-clicking on Gem bug removed
  
• Multiple Steam profiles and saves now supported
  
• Rubble takes fewer clicks to clear (2 instead of 5)
  
• List of resolutions updated in options menu
  
• Fixed 0x0 resolution bug
  
• Removed debug editor option from F8
  
• Raised limit on placement of settlements to 10
  
• Fixed bug where settlements stop working after save/load
  
• Speed of followers to Totem increased by 10%
  
• Re-balanced the birth rate of rank 4-6 Abodes
  
• Graphical improvements to the battle map screen
  
• Shaders corrected on trees – beautify now more beautiful
  
• Contours shadows added on Landscape
  
• Abodes now only eject 1 follower at a time
  
• Less tripping of Followers animation
  
• Improved water surface
  
• Improved follower terrain response
  
• State of the Gem mine now saves
  
• Rebalancing of Gems in the mine
  
• Preparing the world for Bronze age farming
  
• Various icon revisions
  
• Various text updates
  
• Various crash fixes

Well here it is, Early Access Beta of GODUS. First of all thank you for downloading the game. Our reason for using early access is so that we can get as many of you to play the game and for us to learn from what you enjoy and hate. In that way over the coming months develop GODUS into a GREAT game, that is our passion!

We are continuing to work very hard and hope to have an update out as soon as possible. Thank you for your belief and patience.

We would love your feedback though http://support.22cans.com or if you want a multiplayer game invite pmolyneux

Thank you
Peter Molyneux