Christian Games...Anyone?

[Dervish]

I was just kinda curious if there is anyone out there who would be interested in doing some sort of christian games... I am not talking about silly kids games or just making bible stories into games... I would like to make a game that deals with christian topics in an adult way that maybe teens or adults would enjoy playing.  Anyway if there is any interest post or pm me

[Nacho]

I belong to a Skeptic Association... Any Christian game I would make would be a parody! 

[Akatosh]

How do you know it's actually composed by skepticists (spelling may vary), and not just an establishment to lock them away in a place where they can't do any harm? HUH? 

About the game: It would depend on the viewpoint. I'm all for open, mature, philosophical adventure games, but if you're more aiming at "spreading God's word"... then no.

[Babar]

Me, me me! I want to make a christian game!

But yeah...you'd definitely have to give more details than that. What are you willing to contribute (background/sprite art, programming, etc), what do you need from others, etc... Otherwise this will just turn into a discussion about christian games in general, which might not be such a bad idea

[InCreator]

No.

[ManicMatt]

Like..

The Passion of the Christ - The Game! For Nintendo Wii.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

There's certainly room in the database for non-parody religious games, so go for it.

[Dudeman Thingface]

I must admit that I'd be interested in helping with story and puzzle design.

[Nacho]

Akatosh, I don' t really understand your point... Sorry

[Ishmael]

You'd have to know how to do it to pull off a proper adventure game and not end up having the fanatics praise it and the rest shun it as a spiteful attempt at converting. So if you're a fanatic christian, don't write the story.

[Dudeman Thingface]

So if you're a fanatic christian, don't write the story.

I'm assuming this is pointed at me.
I promise you that I'm not a fanatic evangelist that is high-strung with desire to convert everybody in hearing/seeing/touching radius to Christianity.

[Nacho]

I think it would be fricki' funny, but a little bit (well... Totally) heretic, to do:

"How Ieoshua Bar Yossef cheated everybody to became the Messiahnic figure of Jesus"

For example, with the "Miracle of the fishes and the wine", he could get everybody drunk, then go out of the party, and negotiate with some merchmantmen purchasing the wine and the fishes... Or how he walks through the waters walking through the shallow part of the lake. Something like that... Should be funny.

[SSH]

How about a game where a priest finds that an ex-parishoner has been murdered and left a load of money to his church. He then has to investigate the murder to free himself of suspicion and ends up in a punch up with the evil bishop who was behind it all. If that plot was good enough for Judaism, its good enough for Christianity

Seriously though, I'd be interested in helping. And ignore the Christian-baiters like Nacho.

[Nacho]

Andrew, to be honest, I was being serious. I've allways thought that many of the "miracles" done by Jesus are indistinguisable from "normal" acts, sold in a nice wrapper. Many of the passages by the bible are likely to be turned into situations for adventure game (Quest for Freedom: By Moses)

Of course, if there is no divine intervention, the better. Cheating is not funny.

[Trent R]

I'm with SSH!

I think Christian Games (or heck*, any genre/theme of games) can appeal to whatever person if done correctly. I'd play it.

~Trent
*No pun intended

[SSH]

Andrew, to be honest, I was being serious.

Undoubtedly, but the guy is asking if anyone wants to help him make Christian games, not asking people to undermine his beliefs by suggesting that Jesus cheated. If you want to rail against Christianity, this isn't the thread to do it in, you're being offtopic. If someone wanted to make a fangame about the SNES, it would hardly be helpful to say "But that's stupid, the Sega Megadrive was much better".

It might be worth looking into a remake of some of the old Christian IF. I remember playing a Pilgrims Progress IF game back in the 80s, and another one called "Galilee".

[Nacho]

I was just suggesting ideas... If he goes for the "Jesus the cheater" via, he will probably get lots of fans, and an  innovative, polemic point of view. If he goes to a literalistic vision of the Bible, he will probably find that people laughs of him.

[Matti]

If he goes for the "Jesus the cheater" via, he will probably get lots of fans, and an  innovative, polemic point of view. If he goes to a literalistic vision of the Bible, he will probably find that people laughs of him.

I guess he isn't looking for any of that, since this is what he said:

I am not talking about [...] making bible stories into games... I would like to make a game that deals with christian topics in an adult way that maybe teens or adults would enjoy playing.

But since I'm not interested, this is some sort of a SPAM post as well. But my only one I promise.

But Nacho, your idea is funny. "Religious parody" should be a MAGS topic one day.

[OneDollar]

Its going to be quite a balancing act writing for it. You've got a thin line between being interesting and being *too* controversial so you don't get slated by either angry atheists or angry Christians. Also I have a feeling (which may be disproved) that if the game gets well known then you're going to attract a lot of criticism, not necessarily from AGS users but from any wider audience. Anyway, I'm sure you know all that.

I'm all for a well made, high quality and serious game covering Christian attitudes, especially as I've yet to encounter one (though I've only played a handful). I would offer to help but unfortunately I've just got too much on at the moment to commit to anything. Good luck though.

[SSH]

I was just suggesting ideas... If he goes for the "Jesus the cheater" via, he will probably get lots of fans, and an  innovative, polemic point of view. If he goes to a literalistic vision of the Bible, he will probably find that people laughs of him.

And some will like it, too. Don't assume that your opinion is the world's.

Why not go into a mosque and make some suggestions for a similar game about Mohammed and see how they like it?

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to make my hilarious new game about how all the players and supporters of Barcelona FC are child molesters