Joshua on March 18th, 2009

So… I just pulled out of a week-and-a-half-long gaming binge. For the last week and a half, since Saturday after I fell sick, I’ve played and finished – in quick order: Civilization IV, Black and White 2, and SimCity Societies. So much for my grand resolutions to keep the month of March limited to 3 [...]

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Joshua on March 9th, 2009

While reading through articles and reviews about CarneyVale: Showtime, I was reminiscing about some earlier thoughts I had regarding circus games. One of my favourite games to play on the NES, back when I was still a boy, was Circus Charlie. I used to spend hours in front of the TV screen at my cousin’s [...]

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Joshua on March 5th, 2009

Things have been rather busy at work this latter half of the week. Classes have started again, and already I have students moaning about how tough the new project is. How do you convince a bunch of Arts students that they can program? On another note, I’ve also inherited responsibility for organising and running the [...]

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I wasn’t sure what to post today, so I thought I might as well spell out something that’s been troubling me regarding the plan to make a Christian video game. Namely, is it blasphemous to do so? The argument goes like this: I want to make a Christian video game which encourages people to listen [...]

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I’ve been thinking for a while now about making a Christian video game. After all, I’ve always claimed that it would be my ultimate goal in game design – merging my ministry and my work into one – designing Christian video games for a living. And even though I’ve sort of put it on the [...]

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