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Playing with Noah’s Animals. A Theological Analysis of Four Retro Video Games Called NOAH’S ARK

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dc.creatorBosman, Frank
dc.date.accessioned2023-11-20T14:06:50Z
dc.date.available2023-11-20T14:06:50Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractA special genre has emerged in video games – Bible games. As a subset of the broader genre of Christian games – aimed at providing age- and faith-appropriate content for religious audiences and/or proselytizing non-believers to the Christian faith – the Bible games gamify their inspirational source material. Frequently, these games are considered inferior (“bad”) games, usually because of the ludonarrative dissonance in terms of gameplay and narrative. This article discusses four of these supposedly bad Bible games, all from the 1980s and 1990s and all using the biblical story of Noah’s ark as source material: Noah’s Ark by Enter-Tech (1982), the NES games Noah’s Ark (as a part of Bible Adventures) by Wisdom Tree and Noah’s Ark by Konami (1992), and finally the SNES game Super Noah’s Ark 3D by Wisdom Tree again. The article provides an overall comparison and analysis of the four in theological terms.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.9:2023.2.9
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20129
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/358/318
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21352
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
dc.subjectPlayingen
dc.subjectNoah’s Animalsen
dc.subjectTheologicalen
dc.subjectAnalysisen
dc.subjectRetroen
dc.subjectVideo Gamesen
dc.subjectNOAH’S ARKen
dc.subject.ddcddc:700
dc.titlePlaying with Noah’s Animals. A Theological Analysis of Four Retro Video Games Called NOAH’S ARKen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-11-29T00:33:08
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/358/318
local.source.epage194
local.source.issue2
local.source.issueTitleHere Be Dragons. East Asian Film and Religion
local.source.spage163
local.source.volume9

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