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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Can Abraham, Jesus and Mohammad be angsty teens with too many zippers and belts too?

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Can Abraham, Jesus and Mohammad be angsty teens with too many zippers and belts too?

Also spiky hair.
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Dude, you're venturing into some dangerous territory making a game about the bible. I don't mean in terms of people getting mad, which of course some fantatics might, but this is the internet. More, you have to make sure that what you're doing is in the spirit of the bible in one way or another. For example, I'd argue that an RPG about Jesus would inherently suck because the RPG genre has absolutely nothing to do with the New Testament. Sure, you could give all the disciples different spells and skills etc etc and make a cool party system - but then there's the problem of Jesus: He doesn't fight. I mean, he gets mad, knocks over a couple money changer carts and what have you, but on the whole a game in which a basic mechanic is battle, Jesus would be completely out of place as a lead role. I mean, he drives away the devil by quoting the Old Testament - not to mention the fact that if you're adapting the bible's story, you've got four gospels all telling you different versions of Jesus and leaving you going fhsdgfhydsfsd WHICH ONE IS REAL?? And I mean, if you're going for John's Jesus, he can do just about anything.
So, unless you've got another genre in mind, the New Testament is out right off the bat.

Now Moses, he'd probably kill a dude or two.
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ACTUALLY... Jesus can win battles by avoiding confrontation! He learns Speachcraft and Merchantile abilities and gains experience through understanding and showing the light path to his objectors. And what is a fireball spell if not mere WORDS spoken from a BOOK eh? As for which story to follow, simply have different endings with choices from those books as player-choosables!

Jesus! This man has been caught steeling bread to feed his family What dos thou commandeth uf us?
A: Let he without sin cast the first stone
B: Do unto others as you would have them do to you
C: (something about feeding your loved ones)
D: Cast thy decrepid soul into the firely depths of Hadies, DEMON!!!

*edit: haha, give Jesus an alignment meter and at the end the player finds out how today's society has ended up with each ending.
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Bible has great material for a rpg actually. There's murder, prosecution, wars, people being lynched and body parts removed, etc. There's tons of detailed tales of sex as well, including incestual rape pregnancies and even underage incest pregnancies when three sisters keep raping their drunken father. It just seems that almost all bible games seem to ignore all this and have it play out like a hippie journey where everyone sits around in all happiness. Those heretics.

 
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not to mention atleast flat rm2k3 earth world maps make more sense to include biblical stories

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Dude, you're venturing into some dangerous territory making a game about the bible. I don't mean in terms of people getting mad, which of course some fantatics might, but this is the internet. More, you have to make sure that what you're doing is in the spirit of the bible in one way or another. For example, I'd argue that an RPG about Jesus would inherently suck because the RPG genre has absolutely nothing to do with the New Testament. Sure, you could give all the disciples different spells and skills etc etc and make a cool party system - but then there's the problem of Jesus: He doesn't fight. I mean, he gets mad, knocks over a couple money changer carts and what have you, but on the whole a game in which a basic mechanic is battle, Jesus would be completely out of place as a lead role. I mean, he drives away the devil by quoting the Old Testament - not to mention the fact that if you're adapting the bible's story, you've got four gospels all telling you different versions of Jesus and leaving you going fhsdgfhydsfsd WHICH ONE IS REAL?? And I mean, if you're going for John's Jesus, he can do just about anything.
So, unless you've got another genre in mind, the New Testament is out right off the bat.

Now Moses, he'd probably kill a dude or two.

But a game about Jesus doesn't have to star Jesus. You could just as well go to before he was a newborn and every infant were ordered to be slaughtered to kill Jesus and see the game through a family that tries to escape this order, much as Josef and Mariah did.

 
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But a game about Jesus doesn't have to star Jesus. You could just as well go to before he was a newborn and every infant were ordered to be slaughtered to kill Jesus and see the game through a family that tries to escape this order, much as Josef and Mariah did.
Actually, that's a really interesting concept.

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Why are we still posting here? Alex got banned like a month ago or something.

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Why not?
Actally one of my game ideas suggested that Jesus was only one of the trial balloons sent to the human race and one of the characters here was the next attempt. However he was a warlike  man whose job was to destroy  the source of evil.
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Why are we still posting here? Alex got banned like a month ago or something.

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