Developers Team Up to Create Christian Video Games
- December 12, 2003 09:17 AM PST
- Email this!
Atari-generation programmers are creating games with a different message.
In response to all of the sex & violence-saturated games out on the market, some Atari-generation programmers have decided to create games with a spiritual message. Shawn Nicholson, a 26-year old former Acclaim Entertainment programmer has banded with 15 other developers to create Nicholson Entertainment Inc. (NEI) Disturbed with the games out in the market, Nicholson strives to make high quality games that can appeal to a mainstream audience - no Bible Triva or Bible verse-touting warriors."In order for games to succeed, they need to be high quality," said Ralph Bagley, chief executive of N'Lightning Software Development, one of the more successful Christian game companies. "The last thing the gamer wants when he walks in to buy a game is to be preached at. It's a game first."
Although such worldview-oriented games are virtually invisible in the consumer market, Nicholson hopes to change that with Spirits, a third person 3D action adventure for the Xbox. The main character is David, a "discerner of spirits" who calls on angels to kill a family of demons infesting Diamond, Ohio. The demons live to "destroy any good work that would bring glory to God." David also must find the town pastor who has gone missing.
Nicholson expects to release the game in about two years.
