This is absolute gold-dust: Pixar’s 22 rules of storytelling
Here’s a good one:
7. Come up with your ending before you figure out your middle. Seriously. Endings are hard, get yours working up front.
Interesting piece on the topic of Religion in Video Games:
A recent academic study into religion within video games by University of Missouri doctoral student Greg Perreault took a look at a wide range of games including Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy 13, Assassin’s Creed, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, [...]
Great post over on Life of a Steward on the temptation to give up on work that matters:
“When you’re doing work that matters, temptation will come… When we think of being tempted, we think of sexual affairs or perhaps the allure of lying for financial gain.
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But this testing [...]
Some friends of mine who I got to hang out with at the Christian Game Developers Conference last summer have recently launched a campaign on Kickstarter to raise the funds they need to create a great game based on the Codebearers series of book. They describe the project like this:
“Kaio Interactive was [...]
Came across an interesting article on Gamespot this week titled “Having Faith In Your Games“. It’s a good discussion of the distinction between games that merely use Bible stories as a setting vs. games that actually communicate principles and make you examine your own heart in the light of them. I don’t know anything [...]
I think this is technically a blog post about a blog post about a blog post, which is probably a no-no, but I don’t mind. I’m a huge fan of the Mockingbird blog – a Christian perspective on the media with an emphasis on the fallenness of mankind and our desperate dependence on the [...]
This morning I came across a new Facebook game based on the book of Exodus called “Journey of Moses” – and it’s pretty good! You can read a quick news article about it on CNN, but I suggest you just dive in and have a play.
The game takes the form of [...]
I wish I’d blogged about this weeks ago, but today marked the start of this year’s CDN SpeedGame Competition – an annual challenge for Christian game developers to get on and make something meaningful in a short period of time. It’s a brilliant way to grow in your abilities as a game developer, whether [...]
So you want to make a Christian video game, huh? Good for you. These are exciting times for Christians in the video games space – the opportunities are bigger than ever, with more gamers from more demographics, more platforms with more distribution methods, and what’s more, right now people are crying out for games with [...]
It was hard tearing us all away from the Christian Game Developers Conference at the end of the day today – everyone I’ve spoken to has been in agreement that it’s been a fantastic time, and such a blessing to spend time with other Christians with whom we share our passion for video games [...]
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