Steinberg, a freelance gaming blogger for CNN.com, said "Pocket God" harkens to the success of "god games" like "The Sims" - the best-selling PC game of all time - and even earlier titles like "Populous" and "Ultimate Domain." "What we're actually seeing is a casual-game genre, and a platform - the iPhone - that you wouldn't typically associate with the so-called god games," Steinberg said. Scott Steinberg, founder of GameExec magazine and Game Industry TV, said "Pocket God" is at the forefront of the rise of casual video games. If we have a really hardcore fan that has it on both iPad and iPhone, we want them to have a different experience." "I don't really believe in taking an existing title and cranking out an exact same clone of the game on every different console out there.
Preview images of the game show pygmies, "Pocket God's" cartoonish and often-bewildered islanders, floating in space and orbiting planets.Ĭastelnuovo, who was a game developer for Sega and other companies before forming his own Bolt Creative, said the iPad version will feature more detailed graphics and an increased focus on mini-games. The new version of the game will be available only for the iPad. "Pocket God: Journey to Uranus" is expected to be released this fall, Castelnuovo said. This year, they'll look for similar success on the iPad, Apple's slate-style computer heralded largely as an e-reader and gaming platform. We'll work on our real game afterward.' " "We kind of did something to make ourselves laugh. "We didn't really have high hopes," Castelnuovo said.
Not bad for a project that Castelnuovo and designer Allan Dye finished between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2008. "Pocket God" spent about a month this year as the top-selling iPhone app of all time before being outstripped by casual games "Doodle Jump" and "Angry Birds." It's one part video game, rife with juvenile humor, and one part demented virtual sandbox - letting players take care of a tribe of digital islanders or, more likely, dunk them in the ocean, toss them into volcanoes and subject them to other darkly humorous torment.Īs of last week, the 99-cent app was nearing 3 million sales, along with another 440,000 purchases of in-game "skins" that let players change the look of the game. Instead, it became one of the most popular apps for the iPhone, selling millions of copies and spawning an online community that continues to grow as its creators expand into dolls, comic books and, now, a version for the iPad. (CNN) - "Pocket God" started as a sprint, a week's worth of work that was supposed to be practice for Dave Castelnuovo's "real game."
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