That year, the company released eleven games for the computer, including such titles as Manna from Heaven, Moses' Rod, and Noah's Ark.
The annual Christian Game Developers Conference (CGDC) was started in 2001 by Tim Emmerich, founder of the small independent studio GraceWorks Interactive.
[15][17][16] Many major publishers and studios are highly diversified, with brands under their moniker with both Christian media and video game culture.
[22] This is due to them being distributed in small numbers at hobbyist conventions or at Christian bookstores and magazines, instead of high-volume video game retailers.
None of these games released on the NES, probably due to Nintendo of America's strict guidelines against religious content at the time.
Nintendo of America's viewpoint on religious content at the time has been criticized, it even caused the censorship and modification of small-scale Christian iconography including 1989's DuckTales and Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse.
[28][29] In 1994, Wisdom Tree licensed the id Software Wolfenstein 3D engine for the SNES game Super 3D Noah's Ark.
[31] After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, there was a revival of Christian video games specifically in the first-person shooter genre.
[33] In October 1999, The War in Heaven was released by a small video game company called Eternal Warriors.
During the 2000s, N'Lightning Software Development released two first-person shooter games: Catechumen (2000) and Ominous Horizons: A Paladin's Calling (2001).
[43][44][45] The game involves Christian couple Ryan and Amy Green raising their son Joel, who had been diagnosed with cancer.
The Wisdom Tree games Super 3D Noah's Ark and Spiritual Warfare were ported to the service by Piko Interactive in 2015 and 2017, and the role-playing simulation title I Am Jesus Christ launched in 2019, that same year Shepherd of Light was released by John Paul the Great Catholic University, and in 2021 action-adventure game John Christian and the turn-based RPG Paladin Dream were released.
Beers worked for Baker Book House and co-authored Bible stories for children in the form of the Baker Street Kids franchise,[52] which consists of the titular gang of children who dress up for a Sunday school play and reenact stories from the Bible.
[56] Series 1 (Early Heroes of the Bible, Searching for a King, The Boy Jesus, and The Early Church) was released in 1984, and Series 2 (Moses and the Wilderness Wanderings, A Week That Changed the World, Paul's Missionary Journeys, and Israel's Golden Years) was released in 1985-86.