Pocket God: The Runs scurries to (the loo?) iPhone, iPad this spring

Pocket God The Runs
We're thinking that the pygmies of Pocket God might have more a personal problem this spring. San Francisco-based Bolt Creative announced that its net major release in its acclaimed Pocket God series will be almost a completely different game. Titled Pocket God: The Runs, this relatively fresh take on the franchise will turn the iconic game into an endless runner.

No clue what an "endless runner" is? Do us a favor and go play something like Canabalt or Halfbrick's new Jetpack Joyride, then come back and finish reading this. The team at Bolt Creative have essentially taken the mini game featured in Episode 32 of Pocket God and fleshed it out into a completely new game. And based on these early screen shots, it looks like quite a lot is in the works to give players their money's worth come spring 2012.
Pocket God The Runs in action
"Over the past few years we have explored many different ways to annihilate those poor little islanders, many of the suggestions coming from our own community of devoted followers, and the original The Runs mini game was definitely one of the more entertaining ways to dispatch Pygmies, " Bolt Creative co-founder Dave Castelnuovo said in a release. "As anticipated, The Runs proved to be quite popular and we really felt that it deserved to become its own full featured game, we're not releasing all the details on it yet but be assured that it'll fit nicely within the Pocket God universe."

Players--or pygmies--will have to run across 13 different tropical landscapes to gather the shards of an idol that will restore their immortality. Based on the creator's love of killing these little guys and gals, you can probably expect plenty of fun ways to send them on their way to pygmy purgatory. (Maybe you can break the record of 129,770,223 pygmies killed in a year.) Pocket God: The Runs hits iPhone and iPad this spring.

Are you psyched to hear about a new Pocket God game? What do you think of how the franchise has been holding up so far both on mobile and Facebook?

Pocket God for Facebook Episode 8 pits Pygmy against Pygmy

pocket god episode 8
There can only be one Hi-islander--wait, isn't it Highlander? Not in Pocket God for Facebook, which has just entered Episode VIII: Hi-islanders. Frima Studio has taken Pygmy-pummeling to the next level, introducing the mysterious LARP Rack (you gotta' love Frima's sense of humor), an item holding five different weapons for your fearful subjects to bash each other with. The new content update introduces a new God Challenge against the might Kali, and five new solo quests to complete.
Pgymy Duel


Pocket God LARP IdolFacebook demigods can now outfit their pygmies with clothing inspired by the Pocket God comic book. Though, just hope it doesn't get ruined in the scuffles that are bound to happen between Pygmies, thanks to the LARP Rack. Well, they're more like battles to the death that you can sit back and enjoy. But if you get bored of their deadly squabbles, remember: you're a god. So, just pick a Pygmy up and--just like that--it becomes a piñata for your other armed Pygmies to pound into a pygmy pulp.

The fight against Kali involves ... her rack. But before you fall into the gutter, we're talking weapon racks here--focus! Defeat her in battle to prove that your (weapon) rack rules them all, and you'll win a weapon rack idol for yourself.

Canada-based Frima Studio has introduced characters from the Pocket God comic as well, like Ooga, in addition to some improvements to the game's interface. It's as if Frima breathed new life into the Pygmies ... only for them to pulverize each other. Look, did you really expect a Pocket God update that didn't promote the Pygmies' premature end? We didn't think so.