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Games go to Church
April 20, 2004 - by Gonzalo Frasca

Ship of Fools, a hip Christian online magazine ("the magazine of Christian unrest") will launch Church of Fools on May 11th, 2004. It is going to be a 3 month online game project. They have a project description and some pics. The projects builds up on The Ark, a Big-Brother game they launched last year where you had to vote-out Bible heroes and villains. I am not very sure what the game component of Church of Fools will be (their description sounds more like a 3D chat room), but I am looking forward to check it out when they launch. This is just an example of what religious people are doing with games and new media (check out the forecoming CGDC, Christian Game Developers Conference that will take place in Portland, OR, USA on July 30-31st, 2004).



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Excerpt: The abstract is from here: Church of Fools is a three-month experiment in 3D online church which launches on 11 May 2004. Created by Ship of Fools and new media agency specialmoves, Church of Fools promises to be the most ambitious attempt yet to do ch...
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