Christian gamemakers' big plans

From Christian rock to Christian videogames. "A small but growing number of game developers are creating titles for Christian gamers," reports Reuters in an article pegged to the fourth-annual Christian Game Developers Conference in Portland, Ore., this week. One such gamemaker, N'Lightning Software, says half of videogamers are Christian. Some of these games are overtly edutainment, others don't sound much different from non-Christian games about medieval conquests, knights and vikings. N'Lightning's Catechumen, according to the company's Web site, is about navigating the catacombs of ancient Rome to free "brethren captured by the demon-possessed Roman soldiers." Then there are apocalyptic games (e.g., one called Left Behind: Eternal Forces, based on Left Behind books said to have a reader base of 10 million) and "The Bible Game," a trivia game with 1,500 questions for PlayStation 2 and a trivia-questions-plus-adventure game for Game Boy Advance. CNET says "Christian games traditionally have been the domain of the PC, which allows many developers to sell games online to their target audience. But with the first console game coming out, the industry will be reaching the mass-market audience that shops at Wal-Mart." Anybody know of good games about other religions?!