Gaming from a Christian perspective.

What is the purpose of the Forums?

We provide a place for Christians to come together and talk about all things related to gaming from a Christian perspective.

What kind of discussions are on the Forums?

You'll find topics about game design, discussions about favorite games and exchanges on how being a Christian impacts the choices of games and the types of games we should play. You'll also find topics covering this website, it's features and where it's going.  We also welcome any developer or publisher who has games to show off.  If you'd like to set up your forums on our site, feel free to contact us.

Are non-Christians Welcome?

If you're not a Christian, you're welcome to sit in and listen or even join in, but only if you treat our members with respect. This is NOT a place to debate the merits of religion in general or Christianity in particular. This is not the place for baiting or challenging our users.  If you engage in this kind of behavior, you'll be in violation of this website's policies and you'll be banned. If you want to debate, we invite you to go visit CARM and have fun there.

But what if I want to be saved? How can you turn me away?

Assuming you're not just a troll, using this lame manipulation in order to drag us into a debate, go here: jesus-saves then do what is says.

What We are Trying to Do

• We are trying to create a comprehensive site dedicated to promoting Christian gaming.
• We are trying to be a place where Christians can go to get information about all types of gaming, particularly online, computer and console games built with a Christian world view.
• We are trying to provide a place to develop the art and the theory behind what makes a game a "Christian" game.
• We are wanting to eventually develop our own games. Project X is our working title for all things in this area.
• We want to provide resources for developers of Christian games and have some pretty big ideas here which in turn are dependent on a great many things falling into place.

What We Believe

• Every Christian site has one but we don't. Well, we do, but we decided to steal someone elses. Since this isn't exactly our forte, we realize that a statement of faith would fall short. I'm sure we'd offend any number of Christians (Duh!) so you won't find a comprehensive list detailing exactly what we believe. So, instead of trying to re-state what others have already stated so well and who are better qualified than us to state it, we have decided to link to sites which explain Christian Doctrine much better than we could. Now, we haven't actually checked every detail of every doctrinal statement on these sites so we might not agree with everything they say (Heck, anyone who's found two Christians that agreed on everything is in heaven) but we like them just the same. Since our trip to heaven is likely a ways off, and with it perfect understanding, we'll just have to settle for the best of what's available to us today.
• www.carm.org. Click on the doctrines link which is especially good. It's an easy site to navigate and chocked full of stuff on what to believe and why. This is our preferred site since we don't have to work hard or buy something to get at the good stuff. When we are in the mood for laughing at athiests or so-called rationalists, this is a good place to go and vent.
• www.equip.org. There's a distinct reformed slant to everything, but we forgive them anyway even though it was rather hard to find their statement of faith through all the marketing (we gave up after dead ending at so many things for sale). But we're sure it's there someplace. You might be able to find it. Hey, don't get uptight! We're just kidding! Click on the resources link. If you find something there that offends you, well, they wrote it! Didn't we already say we might not agree with everything on these sites? Nevertheless this is a pretty good site for finding lots of books to buy to find out what to believe. There's even a link to get free articles if you're willing to supply your name and email.
• www.answers.org Wow, we liked this one because of all the links. There's got to be vast amounts of stuff to disagree with in here but probably lots of good stuff too. Have at it!
• Ok that's it. There are many more sites we could list, but you can find them through the ones above (Not sure if CRI has links to other sites since we couldn't find any. They probably know it all anyway. God forbid they should cross-link with other sites. Maybe they know that linking is risky business).
• If this doesn't satisfy you, email us at illbetyouarereallyacult at christiangaming.com. We'll probably ignore it (particularly since we black hole it) since we are trying to duck writing a formal statement of what it is we believe exactly. But then, maybe we'll do one after all if the complaints pile up high enough to swamp our site (update: the spammers got to us first, so we're good). Besides, have you tried reading between the lines or noticed our peculiar use of the word, "everything"? Try reading some of the words backwards for an additional surprise (gotta be rather creative on this one). And if you don't know what we mean, don't write us asking 'cuz we aren't going to say.

Who We Are Today

Eric Slick , Founder (CGAdminEric)

The impetus behind Project X and this site, Eric has been an avid gamer for most of his life. As a youth he'd spend many hours designing and creating new games to play. He earned a BA and an MA from Oral Roberts University in Theology which proved to be the exact right course of action to break into the gaming industry (12 years later). After college, he worked in the ministry, teaching school, serving as Minister of Education, running a Christian School and Preschool and later owned and operated a Christian bookstore, printing business and newspaper.

During that time, he found out about DragonRaid, a thoroughly Christian roleplaying game that he used very effectively in scripture memorization with his students and with the youth at his church. This re-kindled his interest in developing games, particularly Christian games. Selling one game to a computer magazine, STart, encouraged Eric to try and write other programs but that effort failed when the realities of feeding a family of seven forced him to pursue a steadier source of income.

During one venture into the world of retail business, he found out about an online game called GemStone III. Curious, he started playing the game and soon was writing a "clone" in an effort to understand how such a game was coded. As it turned out, Simutronics (the creator of GemStone III) was hiring people to help with their online games. Eric applied and was hired.

Within a year, he had moved to working on Simutronic's latest game, DragonRealms, eventually becoming its Product Manager, directing its development. After DragonRealms, Eric was tapped to be the Producer of Hero's Journey (www.herosjourney.net) and then more recently was promoted to Director of Development and Technology, workig hard to get HeroEngine (heroengine.com) completed. More recently, he's been tapped to manage new game projects.

The years at Simutronics have proved very valuable and has put Eric in a position where he is better able to pursue his dream of creating a Christian game. Thus, Christian Gaming and Project "X" was formed to see if such a dream could become a reality. After years of little activity, he's working hard to bring it back from the dead.

Tim Wright, Administrator/Contributor (CGAdminTim)

The backbone of CG for several years. Without him, this site would have died out long ago. He kept the forums alive and was pretty much the only one adding content for years. Tim is currently Supporting HBTZ with its development of Visions game helping to bring a Christian MMORPG to the community. Thankfully Tim has been able to support many christian companies in there quest to deliver God's Word!

Who We Were In the Past

This is NOT a comprehensive list. If you worked for CG in the past,

drop me an email (eric at ) so we can add you here.

Joshua Hughes, Games Reviewer

Joined CGaming in May, 2001 and has quickly become one of the major contributors to this site. He lives in Great Falls, Montana. He's involved in his school paper (Stampede) and its Literary Arts Magazin (CMRXpressions). He attends Charles M. Russell High School (CMR). He's been a Christian since he was seven years old and is an avid gamer since kindergarden. He's a PS2 loyalist and reviews games for it in the school paper, local paper and CGaming (of course). He also helped come up with a concept for a section in the Two Guys Software game, Revelation. Josh has won the Quill and Scroll Gold Key award for excellence in video game reviewing and is a member of the Quill and Scroll honor society for high school journalists. He's planning on a major in journalism, either at University of Montana (Missoula, MT) or University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN).

Mike Williams, Games Reviewer

Joined CGaming in May, 200. He was born in Michigan on 1/30/81 and has been playing games since he was 5 years old. He was saved when he was eight years old. He's currently going to college to get a degree in criminal justice and plans on being a Michigan state police officer someday. He plays the most popular computer games and is a self proclaimed first person shooter guru. His favorite game of all time is Deus Ex.

James A Walls, Games Reviewer

A native of the Philadelphia area, and a proud Pennsylvanian, I have been gaming since I was only 9 or 10 years old. A player of Pen and Paper RPG's, CRPG's, Console RPG's and Boardgames, my collection or books, CD's, and dice is vast... and a bit embarrassing. At 21 years old I am a non-denominational Christian who has attended Penn State University but will be graduating from somewhere else (still to be decided) within the next few years. Most of my primary interests are either literary, historical, or philosophical but for a hobby there is nothing like sitting behind the screen of your TV and bashing a few monsters to get the blood running! Founder of a small RPG club in Levittown PA and ex-President of the Gaming Association of Penn State, if you are ever in the Philly area, and aren't pounding cheese steaks, look me up and I'll whip out the Game Mastering material for you!