I was chatting to my Mum recently about my Christian Point & Click adventure game idea, and her instant reaction was “I’ve heard all this before…” It turns out that the idea of using computer technology to share the Christian faith with kids runs in the family – my Dad devoted a lot of […]
Regular readers will know that for the last few years I have been busy making a Christian point & click adventure game – a Bible-teaching game pitched at teenagers, born out of my evangelical convictions that it is through the word of God that God works […]
Something amazing happened on Wednesday – the Day of the Dead. Tim Schafer, a senior member of adventure gaming’s Mount Rushmore, gave a very precious gift to the world by releasing the original puzzle design document for his epic game, Grim Fandango.
I’ll be honest with you: I was not a […]
In a previous article I discussed some of the difficulties in making a genuinely Christian computer game that was also fun to play, and showed how a Point & Click adventure game might offer a way forward. Here I’ll give you my top five reasons why I think it’s a fantastic genre […]
So far in my Expository Coding series I’ve been explaining the convictions behind my project to write Bible-teaching computer games. In this article I’m going to begin to explore what such a game might look like in practice. The evidence would suggest that making a genuinely great game that is simultaneously a […]
Why Make Bible-teaching Computer Games? Intro: A Broken Union
When I was an undergrad, our Christian Union had a thing called a Doctrinal Basis: eleven core truths that we shared with one another – essentially a way of clarifying what we meant by the word “Christian”, so that we could get on with doing […]
What does the Bible have to say about Christian Computer Games? Intro: Getting the diagnosis right
When I first started programming on the BBC Micro, what got me hooked was my insatiable urge to create. I’ve always loved seeing my code come to life on screen, especially in games. Like many other Christian software […]
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