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Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:54:11 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

TIL that the Christian FPS "Catechumen" (2000) apparently cost $830,000 to develop.
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- YES I CHECKED THE BREAKER (psilocervine@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:56:52 UTC YES I CHECKED THE BREAKER
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  @dosnostalgic ...honestly, I can see it. it was shockingly ambitious and looked relatively decent for the time
  
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:56:52 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  @psilocervine I mean, "relatively" is pushing it a bit, but yeah, for a Christian game it became pretty much an unreachable peak.
  
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 01:57:49 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  Also that by 2005 it sold "more than 80,000 copies".
  
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- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:00:39 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  Btw, did you know that last week the game became commercially available again?
  Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3319580/Catechumen/
  Zoom: https://www.zoom-platform.com/product/catechumen
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  1. Catechumen on Steam
    
    171 A.D., a great evil lurks in the shadows of ancient Rome. Face demons and beasts of unspeakable horror. Follow your divine quest through the catacombs and unravel an engrossing tale that tests you against the profane and unholy, stepping into the legacy of a Guardian of Truth.
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- UkeBLCatboy (ukeblcatboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:04:29 UTC UkeBLCatboy
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  @dosnostalgic @psilocervine hmm all but one steam review is positive not religious but on the wishlist it goes! 😂 I mean I played games with heavy Buddhist or Shinto themes like Tokyo ghostwire, so I have nothing against christian games on purpose, they're usually just bad. But if I can enjoy ghostwire aka "religious game with monsters but weeb" I can enjoy this xD
  
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- Gerard Braad ✅ (gbraad@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:04:47 UTC Gerard Braad ✅
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  @dosnostalgic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechumen_(video_game)
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  1. Catechumen (video game)
    
    Catechumen is a 2000 first-person shooter game with Christian themes developed and published by N'Lightning Software Development. Set during the time of the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, the player controls a catechumen, a novice Christian being trained before taking part in secret gatherings. Traversing eighteen levels, they seek to free their mentor and fellow Christians from captivity. The player uses the eight Swords of the Spirit to defeat demons and convert possessed Roman soldiers to Christianity. Faith stands in as the character's health. Ralph Bagley, N'Lightning's founder and chief executive officer, conceived Catechumen in 1996 because he had mixed feelings about playing Doom and Quake as a licensed minister. He was unable to obtain funding until the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, which was partially blamed on violent video games. That month, Bagley established N'Lightning, raised US$1 million, and hired staff from the recently defunct Trilobyte to form the core design team. Thirty people worked on the game, which cost $850,000 to make. After...
- JP (jplebreton@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:07:25 UTC JP
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  @dosnostalgic an old human head colleague i lost track of worked on *another* one of those type games before coming to HH: https://www.mobygames.com/game/22417/the-war-in-heaven
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  1. The War in Heaven (1999) - MobyGames
    
    The War in Heaven is a Christian-themed first-person action game set in a pseudomedieval fantasy world. Based on the Christian fantasy novel series of the same name by Theodore Beale, players are confronted with hissing horned monsters wielding swords...
- Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 02:09:13 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾
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  @jplebreton This game was cited as one of the inspirations for Catechumen.
  
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- StormkeeperGU (ShM) 🇺🇦 (stormkeepergu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 03:05:23 UTC StormkeeperGU (ShM) 🇺🇦
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  @dosnostalgic Well, that was unexpected!
  
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