| Description |
Jarod's Journey by GraceWorks Interactive is a Christian Adventure game that uses TADS technology. It is an interactive fiction game, some call the genre text adventure. It incorporates some sound and graphics, more will be added over time.
GraceWorks Interactive (http://www.graceworksinteractive.com) was formed in 1998 to glorify God through the Internet and software. Several web sites have been made with some more coming soon. The world of interactive fiction was chosen to pursue the software part of GraceWorks Interactive's mission. The software tools, TADS was chosen, were freely available and regularly updated. Further, the IF community was well organized including two active newsgroups, year-end awards, and a yearly competition. The storyboard for GraceWorks Interactive's initial game was started in September 1998. After two years of part-time work, Jarod's Journey was released for the Sixth Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. The competition's limit for gameplay is two hours, so Jarod was only a subset of the entire storyboard. The story will be expanded and implemented in Jarod's Journey (http://www.jarodsjourney.com). Hopefully, some good suggestions will come back from the competition entry. Also, the release done for the competition will be available (an update will be made if there are serious bugs) for people to try and give feedback.
The second game in the works has a working title of Persecution of the Saints. It is still in the storyboard phase. The desire is to have it ready for the 2001 Interactive Fiction competition.
Our third game will try to incorporate Chris Crawford's erasmatazz technology, tools used for interactive storytelling.
GraceWorks Interactive is bringing Christian Games (or entertainment) to the marketplace. For information, contact graceworks@bigfoot.com or see http://www.graceworksinteractive.com web site. Copyright 1998-2005 by Tim Emmerich, GraceWorks Interactive, all rights reserved. |
