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Christian Video Games Without the Boring Morality

Five Video Game Characters Inspired by the Bible

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Bible, namely that it's a compilation of stories about people forgiving one another, being charitable and loving one another -- pretty much the antithesis of the values that this generation values if MTV cable programming is any indication. True, the Bible is used as a holy text by Christians, but interspersed between the lessons of moral righteousness are the exploits of some of the most badass, evil and conniving men and women to ever walk their planet.

Their legacies have resonated throughout history and have found a new home in video game characters. Now, you might think that the Bible would be the last thing to inspire an industry that largely revolves around shooting people in the face and tea-bagging one another Halo, but you would be wrong. Here's five examples why. Read more

 

5 Bizarre Board Games

To much of the world the idea of a "Christian Games" are considered strange...and I would openly admit that there have been some very strange Christian inspired games. So, when I came across an article entitled "5 Bizzare Board Games", I wasn't surprised to find two of the games are Christian inspired games. Number one on their list is The Manion of Happiness, dating from 1843, which might be the first commerically producted Christian game. And number five on the list is entitle Is the Pope Catholic?, where you are trying to work your way up the Catholic ladder to become the post.

Publishers Are Missing What Gaming Is About

Chris Skaggs wrote a great blog post about how Christian book publishers are completely missing what is really happening in the game space and the deep misunderstanding is costing them millions.

"Every year we go to the CGDC I meet folks from the book publishing world. It seems like there is a basic assumption that there is some natural connection between their world and the world of video games, but so far nobody seems to have really figured out how to make it work. Publishers come to the CGDC to sniff around for games or studios that would be good fits for supporting their existing catalog of books. As far  as that goes…I’m willing to say that the impulse seems reasonable enough. Publishing books at least has some things in common with publishing games. I presume working with an author to get a book out has some similarity to working with a game shop – so we’re good to that point.

But things go immediately sideways beyond that basic assumption."

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