That said I would like to hear every one's opinion about this concept demo that demonstrates the main features of the game (codename Darkening). Please do critique and tell me how you feel in your heart about this, I want please the Lord as well.

Here is a brief description of the game:

In darkening you enter a world of struggle against sin and all forms of it and your hope is in God's word which testifies of His grace.

You and your companion are to defeat the evil spirits you encounter by preaching the word of God and praying. You Brother will also pray for you.
You have certain amount of spirit and faith and essentially you need to preserve your spirit so that you wont fall.
All of the enemies should be able to hurt the spirit more or less and if you run out of spirit you fall.

Some enemies may spawn more enemies:

Pride creates anger
Lies create deception
Temptation creates sin
Defeating any spirit can create pride

Here are the play instructions:

Move your character around by left clicking on the ground.
Use your sword of the spirit to preach the word of God against these evil spirits you encounter. This happens either from close or far distance (use the button on lower right to toggle between modes).
And pray for help by first selecting a verse from the verse list on the lower right and by right clicking on you or your companion.

Known bugs:

Animations wont work properly.

Notes:

This is just unpolished concept demo and many of the features are only half implemented.
There is no game ending.
No pathfinding for the AI resulting that entities get often stuck.
May get start to lag due to unoptimized AI code

And here is the download link: Windows installer

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1Jo 2:9-10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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

I run the program, and it works fine, the logo comes up and the menu works great. But when I start the game I can't move the mouse, all that shows is the GUI and mouse cursor and a blank screen behind that.

Then when it won't respond when I try to close it, so I have to do the Ctrl+Alt+Del routine and close it down. And then when I run it again, it doesn't even start up and gives me error messages (like "failed to open Main.CS" and then another message after that "failed to initialize game"). If reinstall the program it runs one time, but then I go through the same thing and have to reinstall it again just to have it work that once.

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Except that I just noticed that if you run it from the startup menu then it cannot find the "main.cs". Maybe the first problem was just random error?

I'm going to upload a new installer to fix the startup menu problem.

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1Jo 2:9-10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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

Here is a screen shot of the game:

The whole idea of this concept demo is to just demonstrate the idea of using scripture in game and to be specific, in a action game.

All feedback comments and criticisms are welcome!

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1Jo 2:9-10 He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
Joh 17:26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

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

[This message has been edited by jari (edited October 05, 2006).]