Christian Games

[skynes]

As Pseudonym pointed out Christian games is worthy of a new thread. so I've started it

I'm all for Christian Games. I think it's an industry that Christians have rarely touched which is a pity. The game that Christians should make gottab e of an equal or higher quality to that of mainstream games!

Who wants to play NES type games on a PS2 :S ... My point Exactly.

[wiggins]

Higher quality Christian games would be cool. So...whose gonna make the higher quality ones? and at the same time make it as attractive to the world as mainstream games? Doesn't professional video game making stuff cost tons and tons of money, so that mostly only companies own them?

[uc pseudonym]

Yes. However (take FFX as an example), Japanese games frequently cover the topic of religion. How opposed would they be to a Christian game? Not sure.

I have numerous ideas here (as in every area), but I'll just mention my most developed one (greater than 200 pages of information). It takes place in a world that is still in our reality, but is entirely different. Take for example Narnia. Different world, same God.

This world is in a Noah like state (everyone except one person has forgotten God), but that one person is an elderly, single man. So God opts for an entirely different rebirth of the planet... and that's where you come in.

Not to rant about this, but you procede to go on a quest that takes you across and pretty large world, and team up with a bunch of other people, most of who become Christian. Not all. That would be stupid and cliched. But while the ultimate solution is Christianity, there's another evil... an evil that feels they would be benefitted if the entire population of Earth went to Hell...

[SVD997]

You know, almost all fantasy roleplaying games (FF, Grandia, Xeno-Gears, Legend of the Dragoon) have some sort of religion in them. I don't know much about the FF games, but I played through Grandia II, and that almost seemed to make fun of the Catholic church.
SPOILERS!!!!









The head priest guy turns out to admit that there is no god, good or evil. It turns out that he was simply using the people for his own benefit. In the end, all that mattered was the hero. He was his own Saviour, so to speak.








End Spoiler!!!!!!
Alot of the japanese games have links to Taoism, Bhudhism, Shintoism, and other oriental religions where their is no one god, it is simply "the spirits" or the animals or something. I have to goto work now, but I will back to check on this thread later. Looks like it will be a good one.

[skynes]

Would be very cool if we made Christian RPGs that made it big in Japan.

Think about it... The Missionary graveyard (Japan's nickname) getting the Gospel without us leaving the country!

Would be fun to make a game along the lines of the book Shadowmancer. the guy who wrote it used the African names for God and Satan and all which I think is quite creative. Most ppl wouldn't notice it.

[uc pseudonym]

An interesting idea. I haven't ever read Shadowmancer, I might have to find a copy. Then again, I'm reading too much at the moment as it is.

[Benu]

What I want to do is make good christian games that do appeal to the manistream as well as christians. I am going to learn game design after high school. But yo all of you that have some skills let's try to do somthing now. I've already expressed this a couple times and no one wants to take me up on the offer. Sure if we make a game it's not gonna be high quality but if we just make somthing that's fun it's a good start.

I've already asked for artists for a game I want to do and nothing. So please those of you that have some skills and would like to work on a game with me please IM me, PM me, email me, whatever just let me know you would want to and then we can talk. So please those of you who have anytype of skill writing, programmers, artists, come on let's start a team and make some games. Let's stop talking and start doing!!!! (jumps off his soapbox)

[ThaKladd]

There is some christian games out there.. take a look here:

http://www.graceworksinteractive.com/cgnow/

I don't know how high quality they have... but...


Yes, I agree about making one... but it's not easy to make it big...
we have to find a christian inside michrosoft, electronic arts, eidos or somethimg like that - so he can press the Idea to reality... people accept games that come from that kind og companies...

or we can make a really great freeware game that is a must for high ratings, and post it to every freeware website on the web... like taht many people at least try it, because they don't have to pay...

*I like dreaming*

[CDLviking]

I liked Deus Ex because it had so much hidden christian subtext. Many of the books that are lying around in the fully interactive environment are from christian authors. They even talk about recieving communion in the game.

I also like Xenosaga cause I'm interested what direction they are going with the heavy theology that is involved in that game.

[madphilb]

No offence CDLviking, but as much as I like Deus Ex I wouldn't call it Christian any more than Matrix or any (most) Anime. While there was quite a bit of things along those lines (including some of the clearance codes and whatnot), it's much more a case of borrowed imagry than anything. Still a great RPG/FPS hybrid game.

ThaKladd - I've seen quite a few of the games on that site you posted... most are, well, I wouldn't spend money on most of them.

Though I will have to get me a copy of the Veggie Tales Jonah Fishin' card game

[CDLviking]

I didn't mean to imply that the game itself was christian. I just that it was cool how much of the stuff you could do in the game had christian elements to it.