{"id":2756,"date":"2009-04-14T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2009-09-22T07:22:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T12:22:26","slug":"if-christians-made-videogames-like-we-make-shirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=2756","title":{"rendered":"If Christians Made Video Games Like We Make Shirts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those of you who aren’t part of a more fundamental Christian group may have been spared the sight of what I call flair of the spirit<\/a>. It’s a subset of Jesus Junk<\/a> consisting mainly of shirts with retooled corporate logos. The companies peddling these shirts are fond of saying, “Change your shirt and change the world!”<\/a>, I suppose because saving the cheerleader just led to more problems.<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly enough, Christian companies haven’t taken the same approach to making video games. Christian video games tend to be trivia games<\/a> or, occasionally, reworked<\/a> FPSes<\/a> or real-time strategy games<\/a>, but they’re never existing franchises with a Christian spin on them. Perhaps this is because making video games is hard, and companies like Nintendo and EA have hordes of lawyers that would crush a product that went beyond a logo parody.<\/p>\n

But what if one brave company decided that the shirt-makers had the right idea? What if one company dared to make Christian videogames that did parody existing ones?<\/p>\n

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Those of you who aren’t part of a more fundamental Christian group may have been spared the sight of what I call flair of the spirit. It’s a subset of Jesus Junk consisting mainly of shirts with retooled corporate logos. The companies peddling these shirts are fond of saying, “Change your shirt and change the … Continue reading If Christians Made Video Games Like We Make Shirts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t