How Point & Click Adventure Games Have Evolved

The first Point & Click adventure game I ever played was Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders on my friend’s IBM PC. It was one of the earlier games written by what would later become LucasArts, and whilst it contains many of the same […]

A Brief Word on Anachronism

I’m loving these increasingly light mornings and how much easier that makes it to get up early and work on my Bible-teaching adventure game. I’ve been able to tick off another couple of issues since yesterday, leaving the number of remaining puzzles tantalisingly small!

An issue […]

Keeping Going to the Finish Line

I’ve recently taken up running again, and it’s reminded me of a really annoying habit I have. I could have been jogging for twenty minutes with no problems, but the minute I get onto the final straight and the end seems within reach, I immediately want to ease […]

Tools in the Hand of God

Only one week left to finish writing the puzzles for my Bible-teaching Point & Click adventure game! Today I’m going to start writing up on my laptop, so I can see more clearly where the gaps are and what’s left. I suspect I’ll discover that there’s quite […]

I’m away today on a friend’s Stag do, so not much progress. Train journeys are usually quite a good time for getting on with things, but apparently not today. Just finished the Go Karting, which turned out to be a lot more fun than I’d feared it would be! Next is whiskey tasting, then […]

Types of Puzzles in a Point & Click Adventure

With only nine days left to finish writing the puzzles for my Bible-teaching Point & Click game, I’m really starting to get down to the nitty gritty details now. It’s fair to say that there are a number of “levels” on which puzzles operate; […]

The Perils of a Christian Computer Game: Changing History

Woohoo! I’m now halfway through my 20 day challenge to write a daily blog post as I seek to finish writing the puzzles for my Christian graphic adventure.

As I explained yesterday, for a long time my plan was to make […]

Why make a Point & Click adventure about an obscure Bible passage?

One of the questions I get asked most frequently about my Bible-teaching computer game project (besides “are you done yet?”) is “why on earth did you choose that passage?” 1 Samuel 8-12 is hardly the best known section of the […]

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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