Comments on: Prince of Persia, Prince of Peace

By: Ryan Henson Creighton

Ryan Henson Creighton — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:14:13 +0000

i see your point. Unfortunately, Christian audiences aren’t known for their grasp of subtlety.

And can anything really be called “Christian” if it makes no explicit mention of Christ? A game like Shadow of the Colossus may (superficially) explore morality, but many world religions comment on the nature of evil and draw similar conclusions. The Golden Rule is nearly universal. What makes something Christian is Jesus, is it not?

By: Harrison Lemke

Harrison Lemke — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:01 +0000

This was an interesting article. My question is – why can’t a “Christian video game” be approached in the same way as Christian art, where it doesn’t necessarily exist to preach or moralize, but rather to examine and explore philosophical issues from a Christian perspective? I don’t know if you’ve played Shadow of the Colossus, but I think that you could view it as a Christian game, in a sense – I found it to spark a lot of thought about the nature of evil. Obviously, the game has you actually committing heinous acts – but if approached from the right angle, I don’t think that kind of thing makes something “unchristian”. To depict something isn’t to endorse it, although it can be misconstrued that way.

By: Facebook Indie Games

Facebook Indie Games — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:07:19 +0000

Mark’s charity sim idea is pretty interesting. Of course it’ll be more interesting if it’s not overtly Christian and gives the player a sandbox where they can make awkward choices about what causes within a country to support, what dodgy governments to do deals with, how to balance advertising spend vs. direct help, deal with crises, and so on.

There are a lot of political sims that could play with competition and conflict within Christianity. A strategy game where you start with a church of five people meeting in a house and try to grow it to a mighty mega church with global reach and thousands or millions of followers. Compete with other churches, make political alliances, recruit Christian soldiers, all to maximise your “souls claimed” score. Of course you can’t be a succesful Christian denomination without doing some seriously unchristian things, and that’s the fun of this game — how much will you compromise your values to gain the souls of your followers?

By: Donald Harris

Donald Harris — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:45:50 +0000

Man you bring up several good points its hard to figure out a place to start. One thing I was thinking about in making a Christian game is to take the Christian out of the game. By that I mean don’t make it a main focus on purpose like with Bibleman but perhaps your player character is a Christian and he is struggling with his beliefs and how to be a proper Christian. I think that is the most REAL way to look at it. Its never an easy thing to do and no one is perfect at it.

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:52:04 +0000

I’d like to see some simulations out there like “Run World Vision”, “SimGod” etc. Toss plenty of humour or excitement in and you may have a compelling game, maybe no God of War but compelling enough to spend some time on.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:50:10 +0000

I’m surprised that you didn’t mention Bible Fight.

http://www.adultswim.com/games/game/index.html?game=biblefight