God Powers

God Powers are a purchasable Interactive object in Ice Breaker: A Viking Voyage.

Teasing
When the Ice Breaker iOS website was updated on May 14th 2013, the description on the homepage was update also. One change was how the game would support "god powers". Nitrome later revealed on May 30th 2013 that God Powers are a premium feature of Ice Breaker A Viking Voyage that allows the player to manipulate levels in unnatural way.

Functions
God Powers can be bought as an in-app purchase (referred to as IAP by Nitrome) from in-game shops with real money. Currently, three gods powers are known: Finger of the Gods, Magnet of the Gods, and Gravity of the Gods.

Quantity
God Powers can either be bought in a single pack with a certain number of one type of God Power to use, or in a pack with a certain number of all three god powers.

Free use
Although God Powers are meant to be premium, at certain points in Ice Breaker A Viking Voyage, players will be able to use a God Power for free. It is quite likely that this free usage of a God Power does not mean the player can keep this God Power in supply and use it when they want, rather, this God Power is likely placed in a level and can optionally be used for free or the level is completed through usage of the God Power (since Nitrome's mention of not rigging levels in order to cause the purchase of a God Power likely only applied to levels that did not have non-free God Powers in them).

Although Nitrome did not state how many uses of the God Power the player has, in order to introduce them to the power, the level will likely allow infinite use of the God Power, or at least one use of it. All God Powers will be able to be used at least once in Ice Breaker A Viking Voyage for free, through this in-game introduction.

Implementation
God Powers were implemented as an alternative completion method for levels players may find hard, thus, instead of completing the level its regular way, player's can take an easy way through the level with a God Power. God Powers still force players to manually complete the level by getting all the Vikings safely to the longboat, only the level is made much easier.

Nitrome has also highlighted that Ice Breaker A Viking Voyage will not aggressively advertise or constantly require the use use God Powers.

Used God Powers
Below lists the God Powers which Nitrome decided to use.

Finger of the Gods
Finger of the Gods allows the player to drag a Viking with their finger, and drag this Viking around the level and drop it wherever they can drag him to, even into the longboat.

The selected Viking can be dragged through any regularly passable area, however, although this God Power allows the player to unnaturally drag the Viking around the level, the Viking is not impervious to damage (it can be killed by regularly dangerous objects and enemies) and cannot be dragged through walls.

It is currently not known how many uses of the Finger of the Gods God Power is supplied when the Finger of the Gods God Power is used.

Magnet of the Gods
Activating Magnet of the Gods causes coins to float towards a nearby Viking, and treasure chests to float around the Viking until the Viking reaches the longboat.

Gravity of the Gods
The most physical of all the known God Powers, Gravity of the Gods encases important elements of a level - such as enemies and Vikings - in a bubble.

The movement of the bubbles is affected by the tilting of the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

Unused God Powers
In a reply to a Nitromian about there suggested God Power ideas, Nitrome shared a few ideas that they had for God Powers, ideas that were never developed into full God Powers. It should be noted that, although these God Powers are unused, they do not fall under beta elements, as they were never implemented into the game.
 * Hammer of the Gods - An idea where the player could smash any ice in the level, without the ice getting to the longboat
 * A "Generating ground idea " that did not involve ice (the person who suggested a God Power suggested a God Power that generates ice)

Activation
It is quite likely that God Powers are activated by pressing the lightning bolt icon at the top-right side of the screen, as this icon was seen in images provided by Nitrome once the site was updated. This icon is also present in images that use God Powers.