Habits of a Point & Click Adventure Game Designer

I have less than two weeks left now until my self-imposed deadline for writing the puzzles for my Bible-teaching point and click adventure game. I thought I’d spend today blogging a little about my method. The first thing to say is that there is […]

Biblical Perspectives on Making a Christian Computer Game

Two Bible passages top and tail every file in the source code to my Bible computer game, as a constant reminder to me of two very serious dangers one can fall into when attempting an ambitious project like mine. The first is Psalm 127:1-2:

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Today has been pretty chilled, watching a bit of “House” and then meeting a friend before church this evening. I’ve spent a little bit of time on my Christian point & click game, trying to bash through the details of a section where you’re hunting for […]

For a number of weeks, I’ve been thinking about the idea of a “Brainstorming Day”, to get together a bunch of my friends who have helped me think about my Christian computer game, to work through some of the outstanding puzzles and come up with some ideas. Today was that day, and I’m very […]

Every Friday morning I like to come into work early and find a nice quiet spot and a filter coffee in Starbucks, or from time to time (like this morning) a Sausage and Egg McMuffin Meal in MacDonald’s. I get the double benefit of a quieter journey in with fewer people on the tube, […]

Today is Day 3 of my daily blogging spree as I attempt to finish writing the puzzles for my Christian Point & Click adventure game. I decided to get up early, and spent the morning sketching out the various characters and locations in Act 2 (in stick-man form!). The nation of Israel is […]

I have 19 days left before my self-imposed deadline for writing all of the puzzles for my Christian Point and Click adventure game. Yesterday was spent trying to come up with an idea for where the player could get hold of a pile of rags. The constant temptation when writing puzzles like this is […]

I have twenty days left of my self-imposed “end of February” deadline for writing all of the puzzles for my Christian Point & Click adventure game. As a bit of an experiment, and to help me take that deadline seriously, I thought I’d aim to write a short blog post each day to report […]