I’m sure you’re right that poetry is its own medium and therefore will always lose something / become something different in the transition to a video game.

And as for Psalms themselves – yeah, I’m not too sure! But the Job stuff just leapt off the page at me as something you could explore in game format. Done well, I reckon it could evoke the same emotional response as the text does.

I guess the poetic books of the Bible might be described as God speaking in language that makes you feel the intensity of the truth, rather than persuading you of it with narrative or logic. We can have our eyes opened by Isaiah 40:

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
22 He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

And it makes us appreciate and acknowledge God’s power, majesty and sovereignty in a way that just being told “God is omnipotent” doesn’t do.

But the problem with translating this into a video game is that poetry is itself a medium for communicating ideas. Video games are a different medium. So I wonder whether we should be trying to make video games from the Bible’s poetry, or trying to make video games that express the same truths as these poems but in the language of video games. We can be inspired by the Psalms to praise God with games and lead others to do so, and we can use some related imagery and metaphors, but can we actually put the Psalms into a video game? What do you think, Andy?