The 'March of the Fire Ants' update also added a new feature known as OpenFeint, where the players can access chat rooms, leaderboards, and announcements during gameplay. Most of these features can be toggled on the game's menu bar. Built-in features of the iPhone and iPodTouch can be used, like the accelerometer to stimulate gravity and earthquakes or guide the Shark With Lasers's laser. These range from benevolent powers, such as giving the islands a fishing rod, to destructive powers, like summoning a hurricane, or simply entertaining, such as levitating the Pygmies.

The primitive islanders, known as Pygmies, are subject to the player's god powers. Pocket God and a number of other titles have really paved the way on this model, where gamers can download a game for free or cheap, and then enjoy a steady stream of content updates from the developers, along with solid in-app purchases.īolt Creative has grown Pocket God up into quite the successful franchise, and there's no question that all of these regular content updates have helped the app get where it is today.Pocket God is a God game in which the player takes the role of a powerful being who rules over an island and controls almost everything present. Nowadays, free-to-play games and in-app purchases are almost commonplace, but back when Pocket God started a few years ago, that definitely wasn't the case. The update also includes a 'Mafia skin pack' for in-app purchase, which will cosmetically change some of the game's graphics to be Mafia-related.īut what's in the pack isn't quite as amazing as the fact that it's number 40. Bolt Creative has announced that it's planning to release its 40th content update for the popular Pocket God app, which will feature a mechanic where players can collect idols and battle them against gods, with more idols and gods in future updates to come.

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