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"You, the person who has reached the centre will be the god of all people who are playing Godus. [Molyneux's upcoming god game.] You will decide on the rules the game is played by. [...] Every time people spend money you will get a small piece of that pie."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU

Reminds me a little of 'ready player one' on a much smaller scale. I hope they think it was worth all that time tapping.

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This was all a promo for Godus?

"A crummy commercial? Son of a bitch!"

It's way more than I expected the reward to be. The winner gets a say when it comes to the rules of Godus and gets a cut of the profits.

Commercial? They are paying the winner, plus letting him/her be an intrinsic part of the game.

This is a lot more than I expected. I was thinking it'd be something trivial and self-promotional, like some autographed copies of Godus, or maybe a vintage Black & White t-shirt.

Also: according to the article, the winner asked 22Cans to make the video public. Otherwise, we would never have known what it was about.

It would be really funny if the person who won started playing only in the last hour and logged in to see what is all of that about.

That is exactly what happened

“People are going to hate me for this,” Henderson told Wired in a phone interview, “but I only registered for the game earlier this morning, about an hour before I won the thing.”

Awesome!

It's pretty much winning the lottery.

Well, some people wrote bots to do it for them.

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