Christians Code Heavenly Games

Troubleshooter · 08-04-2005, 10:19 AM

Check this silly shit out...

http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,21...tml?tw=rss.TOP

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Instead of the health and weapons points used in other role-playing games, players collect love, hope and faith points to power their missions. When they meet foes, instead of fragging them as in Halo 2, the disciples earn their halos by praying for them or using the "finger of God" to convert them.

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Escalante admits to taking some artistic license in Timothy and Titus. In the traditional story line, Timothy was martyred by pagans, but both saints live through all the levels of the PC game, scheduled for release in November.

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He uses the time period after creation and before Noah took to the ark as the backdrop for the game, in which players battle dinosaurs, giant spiders and human enemies.

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Although Adam appears as a character (after Eve dies) and the biblical character Enoch is renamed Orion, no quotes appear from the Bible, according to Churness.

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However, Horwitz believes the recent success of Christian-themed media from companies such as Gaylord Entertainment indicates that there is a receptive audience. "I wouldn't underestimate the force of Christian content," Gaylord said.

Bullitt · 08-04-2005, 10:28 AM

Meh.. they'll never go big mainstream. Pretty much a niched market forever to be that way.
Though I must say that my buddies and I thuroughly enjoy playing Exodus for NES.. nothin like evaporating 8bit demons by shooting full auto Word of God!

Happy Monkey · 08-04-2005, 11:39 AM

Anyone have the appropriate Simpsons quote handy?

lookout123 · 08-04-2005, 11:57 AM

dammit HM! i went looking for it, but couldn't fnd it.

Happy Monkey · 08-04-2005, 12:46 PM

Found it:

Bart: When I'm feeling low, you know what cheers me up?
Rod: Kindness?
Bart: Oooh, tough room. Video games! Whaddyagot?
(He reaches to the bookshelf and picks up a copy of "Billy Graham's Bible Blasters," and they begin to play.)
Rod: Keep firing! Convert the heathens!
(A series of "heathens" crosses the video screen as a "Bible gun" fires Bibles at them. When a "heathen" is hit, he turns into a conservatively dressed man with a halo.)
Bart: Got him!
Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian.
Todd: Look out, Bart! A gentle Baha'i!
(Bart zaps the Baha'i, turning him into another suit with a halo).
Bart: All right! Full conversion!

lookout123 · 08-04-2005, 12:49 PM

that's the one.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-06-2005, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Bullitt

Meh.. they'll never go big mainstream. Pretty much a niched market forever to be that way.
Though I must say that my buddies and I thuroughly enjoy playing Exodus for NES.. nothin like evaporating 8bit demons by shooting full auto Word of God!

Could be a pretty big niche. Lots of parents buying them for the kids and thinking the kids are battling giant spiders and dinosaurs when they are really playing a pirated copy of Grand Theft Auto.

cowhead · 08-06-2005, 12:59 PM

but wait... weren't dinosaur bones put in the ground to test 'our' faith? that's the way it is out here on the plains anyway... geez

richlevy · 08-06-2005, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Bart: Got him!
Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian.

ROTFL!

Trilby · 08-06-2005, 03:35 PM

You know that you are laughing NOW.

Consider the freaking consequences! (did I spell that right??)--anyhoo, I live in actual FEAR that my god-given right to worship goddesses (skyclad, natch! Devil!) will be flattened like so many pancakes at IHOP, and don't pretend you haven't eaten there either, you heathen horn-god that I will worship later when the 'shrooms kick in!

Clodfobble · 08-06-2005, 04:57 PM

IHOP was good until the franchises were allowed to decide precisely which items to include on their new menu, and all the Austin stores stopped serving potato pancakes. We still go whenever we're out of town somewhere, though.

richlevy · 08-06-2005, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

IHOP was good until the franchises were allowed to decide precisely which items to include on their new menu, and all the Austin stores stopped serving potato pancakes. We still go whenever we're out of town somewhere, though.

Don't get me started on a rant, but Perkins did the same thing. There is one menu item there that noone else seems to have. They didn't have it in Florida a few years back and now the place that I have gotten it for the past few years has now dropped it.

Getting back on track, at some point someone in Congress is going to attempt a declaration that the United States is a Christian nation on the grounds that while the 1st Amendment prohibits an official church, it does not prohibit the recognition of an existing church as the basis of the laws and culture of the United States.

A 'strict constructionist' might actually buy this argument.

Troubleshooter · 08-08-2005, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by richlevy

A 'strict constructionist' might actually buy this argument.

Strict anything can be kind of silly.

OC is a literalist creationist xtian wiccan...

08-04-2005, 10:19 AM	#1
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	Christians Code Heavenly Games Check this silly shit out... http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,21...tml?tw=rss.TOP ...snip... Instead of the health and weapons points used in other role-playing games, players collect love, hope and faith points to power their missions. When they meet foes, instead of fragging them as in Halo 2, the disciples earn their halos by praying for them or using the "finger of God" to convert them. ...snip... Escalante admits to taking some artistic license in Timothy and Titus. In the traditional story line, Timothy was martyred by pagans, but both saints live through all the levels of the PC game, scheduled for release in November. ...snip... He uses the time period after creation and before Noah took to the ark as the backdrop for the game, in which players battle dinosaurs, giant spiders and human enemies. ...snip... Although Adam appears as a character (after Eve dies) and the biblical character Enoch is renamed Orion, no quotes appear from the Bible, according to Churness. ...snip... However, Horwitz believes the recent success of Christian-themed media from companies such as Gaylord Entertainment indicates that there is a receptive audience. "I wouldn't underestimate the force of Christian content," Gaylord said. __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

08-04-2005, 10:28 AM	#2
Bullitt This is a fully functional babe lair Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Akron, OH Posts: 2,324	Meh.. they'll never go big mainstream. Pretty much a niched market forever to be that way. Though I must say that my buddies and I thuroughly enjoy playing Exodus for NES.. nothin like evaporating 8bit demons by shooting full auto Word of God! __________________ Kiss my white Irish ass.

08-04-2005, 11:39 AM	#3
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Anyone have the appropriate Simpsons quote handy? __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

08-04-2005, 11:57 AM	#4
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	dammit HM! i went looking for it, but couldn't fnd it. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-04-2005, 12:46 PM	#5
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	Found it: Bart: When I'm feeling low, you know what cheers me up? Rod: Kindness? Bart: Oooh, tough room. Video games! Whaddyagot? (He reaches to the bookshelf and picks up a copy of "Billy Graham's Bible Blasters," and they begin to play.) Rod: Keep firing! Convert the heathens! (A series of "heathens" crosses the video screen as a "Bible gun" fires Bibles at them. When a "heathen" is hit, he turns into a conservatively dressed man with a halo.) Bart: Got him! Rod: No, you just winged him and made him a Unitarian. Todd: Look out, Bart! A gentle Baha'i! (Bart zaps the Baha'i, turning him into another suit with a halo). Bart: All right! Full conversion! __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

08-04-2005, 12:49 PM	#6
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	that's the one. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

08-06-2005, 12:59 PM	#8
cowhead halve your cake and eat it too. Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Georgia.. by way of Lawrence Kansas Posts: 1,359	but wait... weren't dinosaur bones put in the ground to test 'our' faith? that's the way it is out here on the plains anyway... geez __________________ no my child.. this is not my desire..I'm digging for fire.

08-06-2005, 03:35 PM	#10
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	You know that you are laughing NOW. Consider the freaking consequences! (did I spell that right??)--anyhoo, I live in actual FEAR that my god-given right to worship goddesses (skyclad, natch! Devil!) will be flattened like so many pancakes at IHOP, and don't pretend you haven't eaten there either, you heathen horn-god that I will worship later when the 'shrooms kick in! __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

08-06-2005, 04:57 PM	#11
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	IHOP was good until the franchises were allowed to decide precisely which items to include on their new menu, and all the Austin stores stopped serving potato pancakes. We still go whenever we're out of town somewhere, though.

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