This is for anyone active or interested in game development and are Christians. And we continue to reach out to card, paper and board game designers. And this year we may have a strong presence from Comic Book creators.

More details to come. They will be posted at:
http://cgdc.org

-Tim Emmerich

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Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

proverbs 25:7
open rebuke is better than secret love.

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" I hat typos..." - gamer4christ
"TROOPER: umm... CyBob and BIL are fighting over whose dead." - Realm Master

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" I hat typos..." - gamer4christ
"TROOPER: umm... CyBob and BIL are fighting over whose dead." - Realm Master

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Yes, I can be intelligent at times!!

Please be praying.
Tim

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Called by God. The passioned plea of a father. The journey awaits at Jarod's Journey.
Participate in the Parables, The Interactive Parables

Last year was awesome, and I look forward to seeing everyone again (and their games ). I've gotten some good practice in on Dance Praise to boot.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord’s work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.

New Living Translation

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--clint

Count me in... you know, when i can drive and have finished a game and all that.

edit: SCRATCH THAT! I gota good (emphais on Good, like, its atually plalyable and crud) christian game idea! Check back by like.... next week? Should be ready then! YES!!! THANK YOU GOD!!!

edit edit: iim not going the the christian devolpers thing, i just got a good idea, just so you guys don't misinterperet

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yeah, im a little crazy

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The kingdom of heaven belongs to them.-Matthew 5:10

PM ME YOUR DESCRIPTION OF ME! ILL PUT IT HERE!

Here's all the comments!

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Please be praying for the conference, attendees, those that can't attend, the industry in general, etc.

@Reaml: Right on, RM.

Though you don't need a game idea to go to the CGDC. I went last year mainly as a viewer. LOL, and eater of food.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord’s work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. (NLT)

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We can offer scholarships for the registration fees. In rare cases, we can cover dorm fees.

It would be difficult to cover travel, especially for our Australian brothers!

If you can't attend, please pray that it be HIS conference.

Thanks so much,
Tim

http://cgdc.org

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I hear that :P

I live in Queensland, Australia ( go Gold Coast )

Lol, I'm hoping to come round next year.

70 ppl!! Thats great!

Tim: I'm thinking of getting together with some mates I know who are christians and interested in Game/Software Development, any helpful information about ideas and things as such would be greatful. Please send them to dartsman AT hotmail.com. I was thinking something along the lines of "Get-Together's" such as bbq's, hanging out at ppl's places, beach runs, etc. And possibly getting together to work on a game, but mainly to be a supporting group for all the people, and hopefully to network people to get them into game development.

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"But it is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another." - Psalm 75:7

Bring digital cameras, bring digital video cameras, get lots of media.

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1 Corinthians 15:58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord’s work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. (NLT)

Tired of loosing your work for all eternity? Jesus Saves! You should too :P (liek every 1 1/2 seconds) This is a message from teh save the data foundation, and from (CTRL + S): Because da data is y00r future. Maybe.

Well, I'm here at the CGDC and writing this post from the expo hall. Left Behind Games is setting up their HUGE banner about 20 feet behind me, and there are a couple of other people who have set up and people are socializing, talking, and some (like me) are anxiously trying to finish stuff up to present.

I'm giving the first workshop in the programming track tomorrow, and I'm seriously out-gunned by people like Steve Goss and Ben Garney (who is one of the more lead engine developers for GarageGames) who will be giving similar presentations to me afterwards. Ah well, someone's got to break the ice.

Looking forward to everything though! I think this will be a lot of fun -- I pray my laptop works well enough to last through the presentation (it's been flipping out a lot recently).

I'll be writing more posts here as the conference progresses (as I'm sure other people will as well). Cheers!

In Christ,
clint

By the way, I'll be ariving there tomorrow morning. Cya then .

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P.S. Sry you won't be able to make it kiwii. Clint and I can keep you posted though, and I'm bringing my camera again .

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perhaps next year

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Deep roots are not touched by the frost,
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1 Corinthians 15:58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord’s work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. (NLT)

Tired of loosing your work for all eternity? Jesus Saves! You should too :P (liek every 1 1/2 seconds) This is a message from teh save the data foundation, and from (CTRL + S): Because da data is y00r future. Maybe.

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2Co 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

[VoHW] (Help needed) [Blog] - Truedisciple (mp3)

At the conference, I was in the first round of workshops where I presented on rapid game development with Python. It was intimidating teaching workshops alongside people like Ben Garney and Jonathan S. Harbour (both of whom are very cool and humble btw). Praise God it all turned out well and I think people were able to learn some good stuff from it. I went through creating a small, dinky platformer called Idol SMASH where one plays as a servant of King Asa who must go around the land breaking idols with a Smash-O-Stick (tm). It's pretty small, but if people go through it, it should really help them understand the principles of game development.

You can find a writeup of it along with all of the source, my powerpoint and presentation notes right here:
http://www.includingjudas.com/clint/python/

Yesterday Jennifer and I went with Charlie Mauck, John DeMargheriti, Scott Chen and his fiancee to go to a beachhouse on the Pacific. We had a great time exploring beaches, climbing rocks, getting soaked running from waves, and learning about wildlife from Charlie our tour guide. We had a really good time, and hopefully some of our pictures turned out well. Scott, John and Charlie all had cameras also, so I look forward to seeing stuff from them. Loads of fun!

I'll post more stuff when I get back home. Cheers!

In Christ,
clint

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Let's see here....

The conference was awesome. I appreciated that many of the talks focused on how to do things right, professionally. John de Margheriti, for example, gave a talk on Design Documents. Many others also mentioned the importance of having a complete design doc *before* production. It's not nailed in stone, of course, but it must be complete. De Margheriti demonstrated how one can use a wiki to house the design doc so that it can change and adapt as the project gets underway. I hadn't thought of doing one on a wiki before. That was pretty cool.

Scott Wong gave a great talk on game design. I think my notebook is in my checked luggage, so I can't get to it right now. What I remember is that he advocated designing Christian games "from the inside out".

You start with building and strengthening your personal relationship with Jesus.

Then you lay out what you would like to accomplish with your game.

Then, and only then, after you have determined this clearly, do you go on to the next one: the method for accomplishing your goals (your game's genre, premise, storyline, etc.)
After you have clearly lain that out, *then* you focus on technology, game engine, etc.

If you do it the other way around, which most amateurs do, you get a development process that looks like this (I'm making this example up):

"I'm going to build the next World of Warcraft! Yeah, yeah, and it'll have 50 gajillion new weapons and these awesome special effects, like big exploding insect spacecraft that shriek as they explode. Hmm. To do that I'll have to use the Unreal 3 engine."

"It'll be awesome! It'll be a genre-crossing masterpiece! It'll be a FPS RTS MMORPG with lots of cool puzzles!"

"Hmm....WoW, exploding insect spacecraft, Unreal 3 engine - ooh, and a sweet backstory, like, um, the AntiChrist has unleashed these alien insect spaceships that are DEMONIC (thus the shrieking) - yeah, Revelation talks about those, right?"

"Cool, so then when the insect spaceships explode, it'll flash Bible verses on the screen, and then it'll be a Christian FPS RTS MMORPG puzzle game."

See? You get involved in "featuritis" and you don't have a focus, and you never really get to thinking hard about the message and really seeking to glorify God through the medium of games. It's also a recipe for an unfinished game.

It was good to see Ashton_JX and steveth45, and all the other really cool people we met last year.

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Originally posted by tonnyx:

You start with building and strengthening your personal relationship with Jesus.

Then you lay out what you would like to accomplish with your game.

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That's the right order and priority!
Good stuff...

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quote:

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Originally posted by tonnyx:

"I'm going to build the next World of Warcraft! Yeah, yeah, and it'll have 50 gajillion new weapons and these awesome special effects, like big exploding insect spacecraft that shriek as they explode. Hmm. To do that I'll have to use the Unreal 3 engine."

"It'll be awesome! It'll be a genre-crossing masterpiece! It'll be a FPS RTS MMORPG with lots of cool puzzles!"

"Hmm....WoW, exploding insect spacecraft, Unreal 3 engine - ooh, and a sweet backstory, like, um, the AntiChrist has unleashed these alien insect spaceships that are DEMONIC (thus the shrieking) - yeah, Revelation talks about those, right?"

"Cool, so then when the insect spaceships explode, it'll flash Bible verses on the screen, and then it'll be a Christian FPS RTS MMORPG puzzle game."

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sorry, this is off topic.. but am I the only one who thinks the game actually sounds pretty cool!!? LOL!

@ Clint & Tonnyx: Heya guys . I got home on the 19th (I got a ride with Steven -creator of the ninja robot attack- haha ) Sounds like you guys had lots of fun at the beach. Find any shells? Looking forward to reading your posts on the CGDC06. I may just post mine around the same time. Kinda swamped with schoolwork ATM... er.. Gotta go. *slacking off haha*

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1 Corinthians 15:58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord’s work, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless. (NLT)

Tired of loosing your work for all eternity? Jesus Saves! You should too :P (liek every 1 1/2 seconds) This is a message from teh save the data foundation, and from (CTRL + S): Because da data is y00r future. Maybe.