Hooray, this is my kind of thread! :3
Anyway, I went to college for this stuff, to become a story-writer and art designer for videogames, because I believe there is soooo much potential in videogames to tell great stories. Like I have seen some great stories in RPGs, but I think it is a format to consider for storytelling, because the amount of different story possibilities is high, cause of all the different ways to design and create games. Like letting a story have full player control to determine how the story ends, or something more linear, or maybe even something in-between, to where choices could lead to different endings,but with gameplay leading the player to said choices, like "a fork in the path".
But for christian videogames, this seems to be the norm:
Either too preachy and gameplay gets boring:
(Warning video will have bad language, but gets the point across)
It seems the people that made the game...have never made a game:
I'm just also adding this video cause from what I can tell, it would be a interesting watch for everyone on here:
So yeah, christian videogames haven't had the best history, so I think it can only work in these two ways: For it to be a "Edutainment game", you know, a game a kid would play to learn about the bible, it is fun to play and not pandering, or the other way: It involves christian morale themes in a interesting way.
I can't remember the author, but I was watching a book review series on "Empress Theresa" (Infamous book on the internet, considered to be one of the worst books ever, if anyone is interested to hear about it, I can leave some YouTube links) and the guy reviewing the book said this christian fiction series where it's a detective and he goes through stuff, and the detective sometimes questions God like "Why did this happen?". I believe that can be a complex story for a videogame, I'd play it. Also, I gave up on writing because I didn't think most of my writing ideas were not christian, but I thought about it while driving home:
What if we had a game where we see the after effects of rapture? Like doesn't it say in the bible that those who accept God when the rapture has already happened, don't they get to go to heaven? I'm sorry if I'm wrong cause I'm only going on memory, but this was a story idea I came up with awhile back: "Hell took over earth, all humans were taken over, all heaven did was watch as it happened". I came up with this idea before knowing God and I know it doesn't sound the best, but I think it could be re-worked into a story about how somehow wasn't saved during rapture, but then seeing the effects of rapture, accepted God and made it to heaven. That could be such a thought provoking story.
I never thought I would be sharing one of my original writing ideas on CC, cause I've given up on writing, cause I want my writing to be christian, but couldn't figure out how to do it. I think this thread might help, thanks ^_^