JohnnyBGamer

Need

When I first started this site back in 2003, I started JBG to fill a perceived need. The lack of a Christian voice, in the gaming media, was deafening to me. Almost 9 years later, that lack of a Christian voice is still deafening. If anything, the gaming media has only grown more perverse…more bold in it’s love of sin and sometimes hatred for Christianity.

Starting out, I had wanted Johnny B Gamer to become a becon of sorts; a light against this growing darkness. This hasn’t happened to the extent I thought it would. I feel like I have failed…

So right now I am trying to figure out what it means to be salt and light online. How to create something that is competitive with the big boys.

You may laugh at me…but I still think the need to provide a safe place online to read about video games exists. I’m just unsure what that looks like and I am tired of being alone in this endeavour. Looking for encouragement…

Poké-Poll

Weekly Proverb – 3/13-3/19

²¹ Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished,
but those who are righteous will go free. – Proverbs 11:21 NIV

Everyday life can be so rough. I feel like I see and experience actions firsthand, deeds that go unpunished, all the time. I find comfort knowing that God has got my back.

Off with a Bang!

The opening to Uncharted 2 is simply breathtaking. Our hero awakes to find himself covered in blood, a victim of a terrible train wreck. As you guide Nathan Drake up through a train hanging off a cliff, there are several moments where you wonder if he is going to make it. Now of course he is going to make it because he is the main protagonist of the series…but still! I wish more games started off with such a fantastic opening scene to get things going. I guess though all games can’t be that way, after awhile such a thing would come across as contrived. Anywho, I am really enjoying Uncharted 2. Have a good Saturday everyone!

Funded by the Mob

The Climber :.

A mysterious mountain climber makes his way up the mountain. His goal, to make it safely back home before dusk. Trudging his way up the mountain, the climber navigates between crumbing precipices of doom. Will he make it home?

A friend recently asked me what type of game I would make if I was going to create a game. So, I described to him something very close to the above scenario. What if I wanted to proceed with developing this game? Where would I go to get the funding for such a mountainous endeavor?

8-Bit Funding might be a good place to start. Here I can go present my idea, and if it is deemed worthy by the “mob”, I will be added to the 8-Bit site to start receiving donations. A very interesting idea. I could even entice potential donors with the honor of being added to the games credits. Not a bad exchange if you ask me. Gamers supporting fellow gamers, welcome to the new digital frontier.