Christian Based Game coming soon!

icanmake

so i thought up this christian game that is going to be super fun whether your religious or not. i have started this in another thread but i lost track of it and nobody was interested any way. the game will be called "Paper Crusaders". i have started on some art and a website here:
Paper Crusaders Website
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Paper Crusaders Website

PoseMotion

Glad to hear that you are making a Christian game. Just make sure you don't do anything to offend Christianity. I think it would be hard to do as it's not a game or joke. But people have managed to make clean jokes, suching as baby Moses parting his bath water refusing to take a bath, lol. Anyways, I wish you the best!

icanmake

okay thanks ill be super carefull. i was inspired because my gamesalad partner is an atheist and i want to bring him to christ. then my idea started blossoming and now i have some awesome ideas.

PoseMotion

Looking forward to see what you create.

LuckyLurcher

A kinda 12th Century war game? Western European Christians against Muslims & Greek Orthodox Christians? I pity your Gamesalad partner!

icanmake

it is actually you go through several different time era's and places. you can get different charecters such as David and Moses. different weapons also. i will be posting some more art soon and you can see what i mean

LuckyLurcher

Just checked out your website. You even have a sword with the word Crusaders on it! lol. Do you even know what they did? You would be better off calling your game 'Happy Happy Joy Joy'

icanmake

yes i know what they did. the game is sort of like your the last good crusader and the enemies are the corrupted ones. it is just a quick name i thought of. it is not meant to be permanent.

Eastbound

icanmake said:
yes i know what they did. the game is sort of like your the last good crusader and the enemies are the corrupted ones. it is just a quick name i thought of. it is not meant to be permanent.

Eh... So in the game you play a Christian crusader slaughtering unbelievers? You might not piss off Christians, but plenty of other people would.

icanmake

no. there is no slaughtering. it is more like converting them. i have not started on the project in gamesalad yet but when i do i will post videos and you will see what i mean. it is not that hard to explain it is just i am so bad at explaining things there are plenty of elements that i havent talked about yet but im going to later. i will make sure that the charecter doesnt commit any sins or anything.

icanmake

thank you uptimistik. i am going to make sure it is perfect before i release it. this is probably the game im most excited about.

Braydon_SFX

Very good idea, icanmake. I am very interested to see what you can come up with.

icanmake

thanks. im not going to start in gamesalad until i got everything all planned out. i never plan out my other projects and then i dont finish them =(. i really am very excited about this

osucowboy18

Great game idea! I hope it does well for you. And hopefully it leads your GS partner to Christ in the mean time

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icanmake

thanks for the support to everyone.

StusApps

Interesting idea and the art looks quite good. However, by putting this religious slant on it you are going to drastically reduce your market. Perhaps in the US there are enough people who still believe in things like god and the bible, but outside of that market you are going to just turn people off. I know personally I wouldn't buy a religious themed game no matter how good it looks. Some of that is my bias as I am a believer in evidence based science and fact over fantasy. But I think a lot of people would think similarly.

quantumsheep

Oh God, Stu, what have you done??

WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!!????!!!

QS

StusApps

uptimistik said:
Hmm, I don't get that Stus, you see a well designed building, car, boat, pc, phone, and you are 100% sure there is a manufacturer.
Look at the complexity of a single cell, a ligament, an organ, and then how perfectly/flawlessly they all work together, are you willing to say so easily that there was no manufacturer?

Or can absolute chaos create a structured and consistent organism? I gotta say I believe there is someone upstairs. The evidence to me is clear.

Hehe, didn't really want to get into a debate about the existence of god, Santa or the tooth fairy, just stating it's impact on potential sales.

However...

Of course there is a manufacturer to the ligament. Google 'evolution of ligaments' and you'll find all you need to know. The manufacturer is adaptation and time (more time than we can really imagine). Whereas a google of 'how god made ligaments' turns up nothing of any substance.

Of course any atheist couldn't tell you that they are 100% sure in their convictions as they are based on evidence. But as science moves knowledge forward that percentage gets a lot closer to it. But to put down all things we don't quite understand yet to a magical man in the sky is just crazy. The only evidence being a book of short stories that was put together by a few people who included only the bits that supported their belief.

I don't mean to offend anyone but I do feel that religion is certainly not somehow taboo to debate. If I started suggesting that people should believe in the Flying Praire Monster that controls the world from his castle at the bottom of the ocean, I would expect some degree of questioning and criticism from others.

icanmake

StusApps said:
Interesting idea and the art looks quite good. However, by putting this religious slant on it you are going to drastically reduce your market. Perhaps in the US there are enough people who still believe in things like god and the bible, but outside of that market you are going to just turn people off. I know personally I wouldn't buy a religious themed game no matter how good it looks. Some of that is my bias as I am a believer in evidence based science and fact over fantasy. But I think a lot of people would think similarly.

yes i understand that completely as i interact commonly with people who are non-believers. but as i am a strong believer in God then i want to spread religion through whatever i do. if that will decrease the markets then so be it.

uptimistik said:
Hmm, I don't get that Stus, you see a well designed building, car, boat, pc, phone, and you are 100% sure there is a manufacturer.
Look at the complexity of a single cell, a ligament, an organ, and then how perfectly/flawlessly they all work together, are you willing to say so easily that there was no manufacturer?

Or can absolute chaos create a structured and consistent organism? I gotta say I believe there is someone upstairs. The evidence to me is clear.

and i do not only understand that uptimistik but strongly believe it. things in nature are just too impossible to have been randomly created. thanks for supporting

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Paper Crusaders Website

old_kipper

OM(place initial of faith based deity of choice)!

kipper

liamo

Interesting concept, will like to see the end product.
Good Luck!
P.S Shouldn't this be in the 'Announce Your Game' section of the forums? Don't worry, I won't tell!

DoMan

Good idea, set a good first impression. Please don't make anyone angry. Don't insult ANYONE.

MetzoPaino

It's difficult to tell this early in development, but if you're going to be running around beating people up to convert them then this will be messed up.

Also be careful, I know if I was helping someone make a game and they were trying to convert me to Christianity I would just stop working with them and save myself the headache.

ultima

if you know anything about design... then you would know that everything IS designed... alive or not.

StusApps

Well, regardless of the arguments either way on religion I think it's safe to say that the crusades is a bad idea for a game. imagine what people would say if someone suggested a school shooting game, even if you are playing as the good people in it it's still not a nice topic for most people.

Yes the universe is a very orderly place. Laws of physics and Maths come from our understanding of the nature of it. I guess it's only human for people to reverse this and assume that because these laws and rules apply then they must have been designed by someone. Our laws come from nature, not the other way around. It's a sad truth about the ignorance of religion. "Wow, that looks complicated. God must have made it". All those things mentioned (cells, etc) and their origins are pretty well proven by known facts. Like the mixing of amino acids to form the first simple proteins. I've read the bible cover to cover and had a strong Christian upbringing, I read it again when I was about 14 and had a firmer grasp of some of the real explanations for the claims it makes. At least Hinduism realizes that most of their religious stories are probably not true, instead they look at what stories can tell us about how we behave towards others. It's the monotheistic religions I find most unpalatable, it's all "Do it our way or you will die and burn in hell."

scitunes

uptimistik said:
Hmm, I don't get that Stus, you see a well designed building, car, boat, pc, phone, and you are 100% sure there is a manufacturer.
Look at the complexity of a single cell, a ligament, an organ, and then how perfectly/flawlessly they all work together, are you willing to say so easily that there was no manufacturer?

Or can absolute chaos create a structured and consistent organism? I gotta say I believe there is someone upstairs. The evidence to me is clear.

The problem is you can't have it both ways. And that's where ID falls apart. Why does the cranial nerve the leads to the larynx go down near the heart and back up to the larynx? (even in giraffes) Why do blind cave fish have eyeballs hurried under skin that obviously serve no function? Why do I get goose bumps when I'm cold or startled? This is strong evidence of a stupid designer! Not an intelligent one. Actually it's evidence for evolution which has no foresight.

svn

scitunes said:
The problem is you can't have it both ways. And that's where ID falls apart. Why does the cranial nerve the leads to the larynx go down near the heart and back up to the larynx? (even in giraffes) Why do blind cave fish have eyeballs hurried under skin that obviously serve no function? Why do I get goose bumps when I'm cold or startled? This is strong evidence of a stupid designer! Not an intelligent one. Actually it's evidence for evolution which has no foresight.

Hey scitunes,
Those blind cave fish might not have been blind very long ago. And those giraffes might've actually kept their heads below their bodies like Diplodocus(maybe they're even related!)a long time ago. In another twenty million years, maybe those blind cave fish will lack any eyes to speak of. And the giraffe-maybe its cranial nerve will shrink, or stay the same. My point is that evolution is a patient arbiter, NOT a stupid designer.

StusApps

Hehe, some more of gods "mistakes" here http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm

All this talk is making me think of making a Jesus action hero game, could be cool.

quantumsheep

StusApps said:
Hehe, some more of gods "mistakes" here http://www.freewebs.com/oolon/SMOGGM.htm

All this talk is making me think of making a Jesus action hero game, could be cool.

I was thinking the same thing!

As to the 'mistakes'... well, Maybe God was using GameSalad, and the features weren't available at the time....

Or the servers were down...

Either one works for me

QS

svn

Are you sure those are Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes? They sound like evolution behind the scenes.

Dizko

icanmake said:
okay thanks ill be super carefull. i was inspired because my gamesalad partner is an atheist and i want to bring him to christ. then my idea started blossoming and now i have some awesome ideas.

You're kidding me, right? So we're using Gamesalad to indoctrinate people now? So we can't offend christians, but atheists are fair game? I find this attitude particularly offensive.