Waiting For godOS


Finally, the Ludum Dare 46 ended and here we are with "Waiting for godOS" a game in which a special OS for your smartphone grants you the power of a god for a short amount of time. Your objective is to help people and increase your followers to become the first god in the ranking. 

The theme of the Ludum was "Keep it alive" and the general idea was to create a game that did not require a lot of graphics (the team was made up by a programmer and a game designer) so we decide to make a game based on balancing variables and binary choices.

Our two main references where Noragami, a Japanese manga, and a comment of Pope Francis:
Noragami's story revolves around a god has to accomplish requests from people to gain followers, preventing him to be forgotten and disappear forever. This source of inspiration constitutes the basic concept of the game: by helping people, you create the idea of a helpful guardian. By raising followers, you keep it alive.
On February 7th, 2020, Pope Francis, during an interview, said that "God does not have a magic wand and it is not a superhero". We are not religious people at all, but we were getting confused by a statement that seemed to contradict the idea of god itself - Catholic or not. Can a god be considered a divine being if not omnipotent? We further expanded that analysis and got to a conclusion, which is maybe not what the Pope considered at all, but it is our interpretation of his declaration: In our opinion, if a god really existed, it could be omnipotent but cannot shape our reality to help humanity: humans themselves would start depending on it and suppress their own free will.
We could also add that we were inspired by a Futurama episode in which Bender Rodriguez became a living god for a while, but that's an extra.

However we really hope you had fun playing the game, we'll release in a few days a Postmortem. In the meantime, check out our twitter

@cyberpangames. Also, make sure to follow @giosaffi and @andremcsaff for some dev and unity tips.

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