You are a Roman Catholic. You are sitting on your front porch on a beautiful Summer day. You see a man in very nice clothing walking down the sidewalk carrying a brown book. The man stops at your house and walks up to your porch and introduces himself. He asks you questions about your faith. You need to answer all of them using Bible verses that you've written down before-hand on a cheat sheet for just such an occasion. Can you do it?
This game is based on the idea of a Catholic Apologist, using the Bible as his weapon of choice. Once the game starts you will have to type in Bible verses from your cheat sheet to answer the Christian man, but you'll have to look them up in a Bible to figure out which one is appropriate.
This is my third Ludum Dare now, and my first Jam. I entered the Jam because I was simply too busy during the first two days of the competition to finish the game. As it is, I only got around 20 hours of work in the game over the course of the 3 days I worked on it. I made this game by myself, all the code is by me, the graphics are by me, and the sound(which is non-existent) is by me. Written in Java, as usual by now. To run the game, download the zip, extract it's contents to a folder, and run the .bat file. If .bat files don't work on your computer, hopefully you know how to use the java commands to run it. The source files are in the zip as well.
Note: This game is not aimed at anyone. I am not trying to say anything about anyone's beliefs, I have simply written a game where you answer questions about mine. I hope you enjoy it.
Nice job, the walking up scene must have taken awhile, I kinda wished i could have just clicked on the cheat sheet instead of having to type it in.
Also I found a way to put the game in a jar instead of using the whole .bat file and JDK and all. Just compile the game in a runnable jar, and put the resources next to the actual jar instead of in the jar. You might wanna fix that since not alot of people have JDK.
Wevel: Yeah, I wish I had enough time to do something like that. This was my first time ever using edit boxes in Java to let the user type in text, actually. I probably could have made it better if I knew more. Thanks for the reply.
The animation up front took a while, and I couldn't figure out how to answer the purgatory thing; I couldn't find any mention of it in the verses listed...
It's great to see a game based around Christian faith and the Bible, because that's difficult to do. I found myself putting forward arguments that I didn't necessarily agree with, but looking for answers in the Bible is a great principle, and having to look up the passages outside the game makes people think about the issues and the interpretation.
Jajo: Heh heh, sorry about that. I think it works better needing a Bible to play, but it does limit who can play sometimes. Fortunately, I think more people own Bibles than any other book in the world. And sound would be cool. I just have to figure out how to do it in Java.
Great idea and I liked the need to seek answers outside the game (those who don't have a Bible can surely use the internet). It's a really interesting and thought-provoking approach.
I agree with some of the other players that it would have been nice to click on the links rather than type but that's a minor quibble.
Very interesting game! I don't think I've seen anyone else use this idea for the theme. I kind of liked typing things in, made the experience more tactile. Good job!
@Red_Fan games if you can tell me how to do what you want, I will. But it is Java so it technically should work with Linux without me doing anything extra.
As someone unfamiliar with Bible verses, I found this game far too opaque. This is a neat idea, one I'd be interested in seeing again if it were fleshed out.
Also I found a way to put the game in a jar instead of using the whole .bat file and JDK and all. Just compile the game in a runnable jar, and put the resources next to the actual jar instead of in the jar. You might wanna fix that since not alot of people have JDK.