Poll: Which biblical topic should this game include?

Genesis (Adam , Noah , Etc)
10 35.7%
New Testament (Christian stuff)
5 17.9%
Moses , the prince of Egypt
13 46.4%

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Poll How would I go about making a biblical game? (Read 1496 times)

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Honestly , I have played bible adventures for nes , and it completely sucked .

Is there any way I can make a great bible game without it sucking?
an rpg perhaps?
Last Edit: September 23, 2009, 11:36:56 pm by alexross7
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games dont suck because they are about the bible, dude. games suck because there made badly. if you can make good games, making a good bible game shouldn't be any different.
you may as well be asking ''how do i make a good game'' and people have been asking that for ever.
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Jesus, Moses, and Mary in an rpg... Omg epic...

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LOL..

I made an ark chipset..

I might fit some bible stories into a single game.
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Make it like The Last Temptation of Christ + Dogma + Year One, with a little Stigmata thrown in.

Make sure the gameplay, graphics, and soundtrack are freakin' sweet.
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oh god yes i knew if i prayed hard enough alexross7 would come back to gw
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Yea well...   Real life sucked hard.

I needed some space from all of these things called "people" , so I came back to GW.

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Don't ever leave us again alexross7.  I want to see you finish your bible game so I can play it.
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Ok.    I am making the ark..  It's awesome.

We will see how it goes from there.
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Step 1: Have an idea for a Biblical game
Step 2: Act on those impulses.
Step 3: ?????????
Step 4: Success!

Because it's a rarely touched field, you are bound to win going forward with nothing more than this plan to guide you.
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Will we have talking snakes and donkeys? :)

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Be aware that you are selecting a very polarizing source material. What is your target audience, or is this just for your own edification? Most "average" people are "too cool/rational/whatever" for religion which would make a game based on the bible into a passing curiosity, at best. What is the point of the game, just to tell biblical stories? You could tell "biblical" stories without having to have a John, Paul, Luke, or Mathew.

Think about Superman, or really almost any superhero. From Gilgamesh to Heracles, Samson to Superman, you have exceptional people (on more then one occasion the offspring of a god or goddess) who perform impossible feats.

Is there a message behind your game, or is it simply "Bible stories rock!"

Even among people who would be legitimately interested in a Biblical themed game, your audience would invariably narrow. What are you making this game in? An illegally distributed/translated program? Are you going to stick, verbatim, to the source material?

Even if you stick to the material as closely as possible, which version are you sticking too? There are many versions and expunged books.

I remember your topic about "a Bible game for everyone" from a while ago, and honestly I took it for a simple troll when I first saw it.

There may be some small percent out their to whom the idea truly appeals too, and it may even have some relevance as a teaching tool - but I just don't see it.

I'm reminded of protests from the Christian church a few years back about some play that would portray the Christ cycle as applied to modern day. Their version of Christ happened to be a homosexual teenager. The Church was not happy with that, big surprise. I could see the writer's rationale. They were trying to bring the situation of a Jewish slave who was tortured and suffered for all of mankind's sins to the modern day, and the only way they could make him a big enough outcast was the gay angle. (Tangent - the same thing was done with an adaptation of Lovecraft's Shadow Over Insmouth. The main character was written as gay to make the return/arrival at a small -likely close minded- town as dread filled an experience as possible, even before the Cult gets into the picture.)

Good luck with the game, at any rate. If some of the responses you've garnered thus far (counting the other topic as well) are any indication, you're going to need it.
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The message behind his game is that it is going to be the best game ever and I can't wait.
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Will it include incest between father and daughter?

I was just kidding but maybe making one from the proverbs will work  :shady:
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Will it include incest between father and daughter?

I was just kidding but maybe making one from the proverbs will work  :shady:

What a weird fetish nessiah.....


I'd check the diary of anne frank shareware to see how you can make a game out of any book
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There is so much potential in this idea.. It would be nice to see a collection of short games based on various old testament stories. David and Goliath, The Exodus, The Ark etc... You could even go for The Passion2k3.. I dunno.
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I think NEssiah was referring to Lot and his daughters.  HRm- *tries to think about how one could play the angels that came to Sodom*

Maybe you could do something with nephilim?
Last Edit: September 23, 2009, 03:19:11 pm by Terrus4
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How about making it seem like the game has a fundementally christian message, and in the end you do something taboo and those who stuck with it til the end (obviously only true believers) will get really pissed! :D
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