Since then, Christian game developers have pushed, adapted, and experimented-with varying degrees of success. But the company was going through a crisis and decided not to mass produce the game, only advertising it in Christianity Today (and only in one issue). The following year, Atari purchased an independently developed game called Red Sea Crossing. In one, players tried to herd animals into an ark in another, they collected manna in the desert. But independent developers, inspired by their faith and dreams of what a game could be, have been producing original Christian games since the 1980s.Ī game company called BibleBytes put out several products for RadioShack’s Tandy Color Computer in 1982. Major game corporations have not, historically, had much of an appetite for religious content that might divide their audience or stir unnecessary controversy. “That doesn’t stop us, and we continue development.” “Many players thought that this was a joke game at the beginning,” he said. Maksym Vysochanskiy, the Polish game developer behind I Am Jesus Christ, is not surprised by reactions like this. “I don’t want to naysay anyone who’s trying to spread the gospel,” Morgan said, “but people can tell the difference in quality in a thing that is good and a thing that is bad. ![]() But I Am Jesus Christ, a demo version of which came out on the gaming platform Steam in December 2022, didn’t seem great. Morgan is a founding member of evangelical pop culture group Geeks Under Grace, which among other things reviews new video games. “You have to destroy dark crystals and pray before you can perform a miracle. Playing as the Messiah in the new video game I Am Jesus Christ, which challenges players to walk in Jesus’ sandals from just before his baptism all the way to Calvary, the grave, and resurrection, was turning out to be kind of odd.įor example: “After 40 days fasting in the desert, you basically have a magic fireball fight with Satan,” Morgan said. That wasn’t what he was expecting someone to say to Jesus. “If I get the chance, I’m probably going to kill him.” ![]() “Yeah, I punched him in the face last week,” the man said. ![]() Joe Morgan approached a man in a market in the video game and asked if he knew John the Baptist.
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