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Now, so it was that after three days,
they found him in the
temple, sitting in the midst
of the teachers, both listening to them
and asking them questions.
Luke 2, verse 46.
I really wanted to play Fortnite on
Friday night, and I texted
Lance, and we were supposed
to get on, but apparently the season
ended, and the servers
were just down for maintenance
for hours.
I got really far.
So last night, I just wanted to play one
game before bed, and
you know what happened.
You didn't go to bed.
You won.
I have set myself up for another
potentially undefeated
season, so I don't know if I should
keep playing.
I won my first, I keep winning my first
match out the gate, and
I have undefeated seasons
of Fortnite because of that, and I keep
it that way just so I
can say I have undefeated
seasons of Fortnite.
So I won, and now I
don't know what to do.
Oh, just keep going.
It's fine.
I have an undefeated season.
I could have had like four or five.
Yeah, I know, but it's
tempting every time, you know?
What if you go two and a half?
Oh.
So you're setting me up for failure.
Yeah, that's what I'm going for.
Yeah, that's what's going to happen.
Yeah, they always do that, by the way.
If there's a new season, it's
going to be down to like 4 AM.
That's just how it is every season.
That seems like a long time.
Why would they do that on a Friday night?
I kind of hope they always down it, and
then Saturday morning,
it's like everyone's home,
I guess.
You wake up and play the new season, and
don't--whatever you
do, in case for whatever
reason you're like, "You know what?
I'm excited about this season.
I'm going to play when it opens up at 4
o'clock in the morning."
It is not advised to do that, especially
depending on the lobbies you get.
It is the sweatiest thing
you will ever be a part of.
I'm not as good as you, so that would
either work out or
completely not work out.
How did the last season end?
Did the rock win?
I have no idea.
I haven't really paid attention.
I'm not excited about this season
with--it's Keanu Reeves,
and who I--somebody I think
is a wrestler or something.
I have no idea.
I haven't looked into it at all.
It's John Wick.
Oh.
And I use--
Only if it comes with a dog.
It actually probably does.
I would be willing to bet that there's a
dog factor, whether it's
his backpack or companion
or whatever, but ironically, I use what's
called the John Wick
skin from season one, just
because it was a guy in a black suit and
a beard, and thought it
kind of looked like me.
Yeah, that's when--
And now there's real John Wick.
That's when Fortnite didn't realize how
big they were going to
be, so they were doing
knockoffs of everything.
Including Marvel characters.
Marvel characters.
They had a Star Lord, and then they had a
Wonder Woman thing, and
then it got so big that
there was like--
Four black pants are--
I guess we're actually going
to put these people in there.
And now it's Tomb Raider versus Alien
versus Predator versus
Ariana Grande versus Master
Chief versus Dragon Ball Z.
Yeah, it's crazy.
They have--
They have demon hunters.
They literally have everything
except for Lord of the Rings.
That's like the only
thing they have left.
They have Star Wars.
They have Star Wars.
They have any cartoon basically now.
It's kind of crazy.
Well, now that the hunt of Fergalum is
coming out, I bet Lord of
the Rings is right around
the corner.
And here first.
Actually it's--
Quite possible.
That's quite possible.
Quite possible.
I would be shocked because
it's Warner Brothers, isn't it?
Yeah.
And they have the DC stuff.
Well, they just got bought.
Right?
Warner Brothers?
No, they were bidding for-- or wait.
No, they got bought, right?
Yeah.
Because I know it didn't go through, then
someone else bought them.
Was it Paramount?
I don't remember.
Because I remember it was supposed to be
like maybe Netflix, but then they--
But then it--
It was too much of a monopoly.
They didn't agree to it.
Yeah, whatever that is has not gone
through or been chosen or resolved.
But that'll be a factor in that too.
Absolutely.
Well, they-- let's see.
If Netflix-- Netflix already-- well, OK.
Yeah.
We'll see.
Yeah.
Welcome back to We Who Endure.
Pardon me.
Excuse me.
We're going to be talking
about-- what's it called?
What a terrible-- terrible--
Gate Zero?
Not a good start.
Gate Zero.
Apparently, it's this video game that's
going to go through the Bible.
So we're going to discuss that and just
discuss Christianity in video games.
Blade O'Neill and joining me, as always,
is my brother Lance.
Hi.
And Dustin C. Smith.
Hello.
So Gate Zero.
Lance turned me onto
this-- turned us onto it.
I haven't heard of it.
Apparently, this has
been a thing for years.
It's been in development for a while.
It started as just kind of a grassroots
thing and then eventually
went through Kickstarter
and got funded that way
really quickly, actually.
And then it's a UK-based
company that's making this game.
Let's see.
It's basically-- what did you say?
It was kind of like-- Assassin's Creed.
Kind of, yeah.
Kind of Assassin's Creed-y as far as--
You're in the future.
And now you have to go into the past to
do stuff, which is
basically Assassin's Creed,
right?
Yeah, you have this time machine thing.
So basically, his grandma was arrested
for harboring this book
that she wasn't supposed
to have because it was
against everything they believed in.
This book was the Bible.
And so it kind of has almost like a
living in a Book of
Eli-type situation where there's
no Bibles around, there's nothing--
Christianity has been kind of wiped out.
Unadicated.
Yeah.
So and then he finds out that his parents
who are gone had
developed a time machine.
And so he kind of uses it and then is
trying to find out what
his grandma was doing and
why she was doing it.
And therefore, his back around 30 AD,
around when Jesus was doing his--
Ministry.
Ministry.
Yeah, it seems interesting.
If you watch the trailer, we will include
a link to the trailer
in the description for
the podcast if you guys want to quickly
and safely take a look
at that before we continue
this discussion.
So right off the bat, we see what appears
to be Mary and Joseph.
And they're like, have you seen our son?
And we all know the ending to that story.
But it's our verse.
It was our verse.
And it seems like it's going to even go
as far as the
crucifixion, like there was the
shadow of the crucifixion, spoiler alert,
the crucified Jesus.
It'd be interesting to see where it ends.
Like will it just be the resurrection or
will it go through, is
he ever 40 days after
the resurrection?
Like where is that going to end?
Where's the game end?
Where's the game end?
I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it's
like-- especially how
just games are these days.
Resurrection, DLC.
Yeah, there's a DLC.
DLC, resurrection, you know?
Hey, Dad, can I get
the resurrection pack?
They brought back Jesus.
No, but think about the other part of it.
You also go through with the disciples
helping spread the gospel, right?
Because they have their journeys and they
all die and everything like that.
So you could then expand upon that.
And not only that, which is something
that would be really
cool, is what if you could
do prequel DLCs, right?
Like, all right, let's
take you back to Noah.
You got to help him
find the dodo bird, right?
Like you run around trying
to get the dodo bird on the--
But no matter what
happens, you failed that mission.
Yeah.
Yeah, even though you save him, you find
out he still goes
extinct because humans later.
Or he just keeps jumping off the Ark and
then you have to go get him.
Like, he just won't stay on the Ark.
Yeah.
I'm interested to see how the game--
visually, it looks pretty stunning.
It looks pretty good.
It looks like they've done the research.
They're trying to not just do a default
old Israel looking like
they're actually looking
at kind of historically how buildings
should look, but what
people wore, things like that.
And there's like a
little cyclist I think I saw.
He was like herding sheep because
obviously it's probably--
hopefully it's not one of
those things where it
happens like 50 times in a game.
Like, oh, my sheep are gone again.
Can you catch all 30 of them for me?
Yeah, those are repetitive missions.
What kind of-- so you
have the time machine.
And like, eh, that's kind of weird.
But like, I mean--
Clishy.
What are you going to do?
And also like how
picky we're going to be.
I think the more concerning issue is how
are they handling this biblical material.
It seems pretty respectful.
And I just want to
bring up that in contrast.
I think this is a little more interesting
and a more comfortable way of approaching
it than that Jesus VR game where you
actually play as Jesus
and do the miracles in first
person and water into wine.
It's like because that is
watching the chiller for thine.
This is wine.
This is wine.
This is wine.
No, there's not.
But you know what I mean?
Like being Jesus in a video game just--
It seems blasphemous.
It seems-- I mean,
maybe they have good intent.
I don't know.
But it just-- I can't play it.
And I think we mentioned this before.
Maybe there would be a game where you can
witness these things.
And this is what that's doing.
And it was around this
whole time apparently.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And obviously, as long as everything's
accurate and you're just
kind of helping the story
go along, it's cool.
Obviously they also talk about-- I think
in the game there'll be
certain characters who
aren't really talked about too much in
the Bible that they
kind of introduce and will
add to.
I think it's-- I guess you can probably
take it as similar as to the--
The chosen.
The chosen show where probably have some
liberties with certain side characters, I
guess you can recall in the Bible.
And in between events.
And that as long as it's nothing bad.
It's like, OK, fine.
You have to do what you have to do.
Right?
What it might be is a lot of the side
quests or even in the
background Jesus is doing something
or like, oh, this is around
the time when this happens.
But you're on this thing where you're
making sure-- I think I saw
on another clip somewhere.
It was having to help
lower the lame person down.
I can't believe you said that.
I was just going to say, wouldn't it be
cool if you had to help--
Yeah, help lower him down.
Because you were doing something and then
you're in one of your tasks.
I think it's like in a different video
because when I was like
doing my research for this--
You got to help the lady get through the
crowd to touch Jesus's cloth.
Interesting.
That would be cool.
Like the guards are chasing you and
actually open up a way
for her to crawl through to
touch his garment or whatever.
But I mean, they've done the research
from what I've heard.
They're obviously not rushing something.
So they have the funds to make it.
They're just trying to get the best
people to work on it to make it good.
So I think that's why they're not too
worried about rushing a
deadline or not making it
be like Grand Theft Auto 6
and taking several years.
20 years.
Are we going to get GTA 6
or a Bible video game first?
But they did stuff as far as they
produced a level and sent
it out to 5,000 youth group
kids across the world to basically beta
test it and got a lot
of positive feedback.
And kids having fun with
it and things like that.
And then they even had like-- they put
out a demo to download.
And I think it said-- it was downloaded
like almost 7,000 times
when it was first released.
And so there's some following to it.
And there's people excited about it.
I think the most important thing to think
about-- and I know we
talked about it when
we had a game episode a while back-- is
what you put into it
when you're playing these
games.
Like what are you getting out of it?
Are you playing this game as just being a
game and it just
happens to be about the life
of Jesus in that time?
Or is it another tool type situation to
where you're playing this
level, the situation that
happens, and then it causes you to go
back and look in the
Bible and read about it and
read up on it to be like, hey, I just
played that and I
just read that scripture.
I think there's no problem with both
because there's nothing
inherently wrong with playing
a video game, like
anything within reason.
And I don't understand how there is this
new resurgence of pastors.
This 50-year-old man is playing video
games and this is as bad as corn.
Yeah, I got you.
I got you.
And I think that's insane.
Because I guarantee you, this
congregation, if you said
the same thing about football,
people would be like, hmm.
Like they were still
going to be pushed back.
If you make it an
idol, you make it an idol.
But anyway, I just
totally went off on a tangent.
What did you just say?
Oh, so even if you are just going into
this game just to have
fun, to just take a break
from whatever, if you're going into it
like that and then
you're playing something and
that, or you're playing it and you're
like, wait a second,
was that in the Bible?
And then that causes you to open up your
Bible and look at it and
then like, wow, I never
realized that was in the Bible.
And that same thing happened to me with
the chosen because
like, you know, like, wait,
are they doing everything right?
And when Jesus had that whip, when he was
flipping the tables, I
never caught that in,
I think it was John's version of that,
that he has the whip.
I never caught that.
It's like one verse
that mentions the whip.
And I was like, where did
they get this whip from?
And I was wrong.
So like, that was a learning experience
for me, which is pretty cool.
Right.
So it can be a lot of that.
Right.
And I think as long as you don't have
something to where you bring up
something, you bring
up a scripture for someone and then
someone playing the game is
like, oh yeah, that reminds
me of level in level three.
You mean John?
No, but you were telling us that before
we started recording
that on their website, they
have a verse reference that you can kind
of when you're going
along with the game, you
can kind of like,
they're giving you reference.
Well, I found the play guide.
Yeah.
Well, you know who the end boss is.
Well, what a twist would it be if your
character was the antichrist?
That would be.
Well, because I think it isn't the idea
of the game as you're
trying to fix the history
or is it just you're
witnessing the history?
I thought it was you were trying to like,
like, like fix
something that happened because
they are like, because
they tried stopping it.
They tried stopping
something from happening.
I thought there was somewhere where I
read that, which is
kind of kind of obviously,
I mean, at the end of the day, no matter
what, though, it's still
a Christian fiction for
whatever biblical events,
you know, may be accurate.
You still got to approach this as just
biblical fiction because,
you know, like you we don't
have time machines, right?
And you can't go back and erase the
history of the Bible and
God would never have allowed
it.
So you got to still sort of take this
plot with a grain of salt.
Right.
At the end of the day.
So here's a here's a little like
synopsis, I guess it's
called the backstory on their
website.
It says you play as Max, a rebellious
teen in 2072 where a
ruthless regime rewrites history
and erases truth after a time traveling
accident strands you in ancient Israel.
Your grandmother is captured.
Your only goal is to fix the
time machine and return home.
But as you uncover traces of corruption
in history, you realize
the stakes are far greater
to outwit wit the establishment to save
your grandmother and restore the truth.
You must find and preserve the original
biblical records before
they are lost forever.
So I don't know if it's they're erasing.
So from that, I don't know if it's you
have to adjust what
happened in time or they're
just saying you have to help find the
Bible and bring the
Bible back into your current
time because you can take
that, I feel like either way.
It's like quantum.
So they're changing it to where it fits.
So it's like quantum leap like Sam
Beckett or is it book of Eli?
Well, the only thing with the time
machine, we only think
you watch book of Eli.
No, because all book of Eli is it's just
like this basically
rundown civilization and people
have forgotten how to read.
And there's only like one publication of
talking about now or this is like.
And so the main character played by
Denzel Washington,
everyone's after him because he
has the book.
He has the Bible and everybody wants to
because having the
Bible means you have power.
So all these like gangs and everything
else is trying to get it.
And he's trying to get to the west coast
like San Francisco or
something like that to do
it.
And then the one is a pattern is they're
finding out he's spoiler.
He's blind.
And so his Bible is all braille.
And then spoiler spoiler.
Yeah.
So I'm sorry, but if you haven't watched
it in the last 15 years, it's funny.
But what ends up happening is something
happens to the book and
they're like, that's the only
one existence.
He's like, I've got it memorized.
Which also is the same thing.
It's just like, well, so then it doesn't
become like the
Denzel Washington version.
It's the Eli standard version.
Yeah.
Oh, that's funny.
Interesting.
So that's the only
thing is the Bible thing.
That's the only connection to book of Eli
has nothing to do with time travel.
But the one other aspect of this game
that I think would be
interesting depending on
how they play it out is
from what it sounds like.
2072 is kind of like the end times.
Right.
So is there any like interpretation of
revelations of any type of
plagues or anything like that?
The bowls of the judgments or whatever or
the antichrist being
or the antichrist being
in there?
Yeah.
You know, problems.
The whole aspect will be cool too.
And obviously, to some extent, right,
like there's way more.
There's so many different interpretations
people have of that.
So like it would just be interesting to
see that kind of be in a
video game if that aspect
does come into play more of
like, how do you handle that?
What does this look like?
What's the antichrist look like?
What do you think?
Like they are over.
Is there is there marks?
How do they do that?
Right.
Like so I think that's that's I would
almost hope it like have
to do with that because
then otherwise, if you're creating this
dystopian future where
there is no Bible and nobody
knows anything about Christianity, that
doesn't really seem to
play out what's going on in
revelations to begin with.
So hopefully that does play a part in it.
Yeah, I think I think it's got to.
So it should be should be interesting to
see how that's interpreted.
I agree.
The beast antichrist.
Is there the rapture?
You know, there's a lot of things.
It'd be interesting.
This will probably not have his grandma.
It was clearly.
Well, okay.
Yeah.
Well, well, well, well, she disappeared.
Well, she said she was captured.
He thinks she was captured plot twists.
She was raptured.
Maybe.
I don't know.
We'll have to see.
We'll have to play the game whenever it
comes whenever it comes out.
So look out for that.
Right.
So I mean, the Kickstarter
is back to where we're at.
You can wishlist on Steam.
Oh, can you?
Yeah.
Perfect.
Maybe we'll put that link in the
description as well.
What about like, like other
games or anything like that?
Like it would be, you know, like, like,
like, because you know
how, like, so this is like
an Assassin's Creed
type situation type thing.
Like, are there any kind of like other
mainstream games that
would kind of be cool with like
a biblical twist?
I think the Old Testament doesn't get
enough love and there's
so much to do in movies.
In games and you know, and you're you're
much less likely to run
into problems with blasphemy.
Right.
If you do Exodus, you know, story of
Moses, if you lead the
people through the desert
or you know, you can do Daniel.
Right.
I feel like the easiest game you could
make into like a Bible game is D&D.
It says what I was saying to you.
Like, you could have a mission like you
have these missions of like leading.
Oh, I see.
So like you could be like D&D and be
like, you know, you're
Noah and you're helping try
to get lions and you got to roll for
animal, animal handling skills.
Right.
And you got to try to get all the animals
onto the Ark or I
rolled a one and the line
bit you.
Try again.
Yeah.
We're like, what kind of wood?
Do you have this with the stronger or
you're going to hold out
for this kind of thing?
Kind of wood.
Yep.
You got a hundred years to build it.
So that's a long campaign.
That's big campaigns.
Just you and your family.
I mean, you can also do it with like, I
don't know, like war
campaigns or even just like
some mission that someone
was on that they have to do.
Like you have your Daniel and his
friends, you know, going
through and like, oh, you
are you're in this furnace.
You roll for, you know, like whatever for
protection or what
level of like, what level
of faith do you have to roll for
spiritual something?
I don't know.
I, uh, yeah.
What's it, what's it called when you put
all of your numbers into one thing?
Uh, put all your marbles in one basket.
Well, no, because you in
the beginning you have stats.
Uh, right.
And you can, you can put them into
different categories, whatever.
So you'd put all yours into spiritual.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, oh, I should have had more faith.
Didn't, didn't work out.
I thought it'd be kind of cool to have a,
so it's speaking to
like Noah thinking like
almost like a Sim city, but you're
designing an art, like
you're like not designing the
art, but you're designing the
compartments of like
where all the animals are.
And you're kind of like building it up
and you get to the point
where it has the counter
for years, you're approaching a hundred.
You have all the animals yet.
Oh, where's the dodo?
Oh, they're extinct.
They're extinct.
They're like, oh, no unicorn.
Sorry.
Yeah, that's a good one.
Or I'm trying to think what
else, what other great risk?
Risk.
So risk, but you have
like actual campaigns.
So you have like Israelites versus the,
the Amalekites or, you
know, you have like the
different regions, you know, the, for
the, for the different
tribes and the different,
so like you're getting all 12 tribes and
you're going against, you know, the, the, the, the
what would you call it?
Risk.
No, you got to have a risk.
It's got to be
something like, uh, exit this.
Um, what's the game?
What's the game where you have to escape
something and you have to
go like, that could be like
an Exodus game.
So like making your way
through Egypt shoots and ladders.
No, that's peaks and valleys.
That's the new name. That's the new name. That's the new name.
And you know what you do with Scrabble.
Call it just babble.
Oh goodness.
Wow.
And what's kind of weird is that Babble
is kind of in the word Scrabble.
Jenga, but it's, but
it's the tower of babble.
And as you build it higher,
it ends up falling, right?
Each piece of wood needs to have like a
different language on it.
It says, it says, it says Scrabble or it
has to say something, but
in a different language.
The same words.
What do you, what do you
do with the language thing?
How do you, how do you incorporate
language into Jenga?
Yeah.
So you're building.
We just call it babble.
Babble.
Well, I know, but, um, so like we know,
we know the plot of Jenga, right?
So you take out, but
that's, but that is the plot.
So like when you play Jenga, you take
whatever piece and you put it on top.
Yeah.
And because why does the story is they're
trying to build to heaven,
but eventually it gets too high
and it'll just topple down and you lose.
Right.
So that's the whole thing.
Yeah.
I was just trying to
think about language.
What if, what if as it starts, it's in
English, but then as you
get taller, like you move to
like number three on the, on the thing
and then it becomes a different language.
So then you can't even understand what
the instructions are anymore.
Just like they were when
they're building higher and higher.
But you, but you know what the
instructions are like,
cause you started it.
So like what, well, they
did too sort of factor.
Well, for instance, okay.
So, so bear with me.
So we have a party game.
Okay.
Is we would have a Jenga set and on the,
on the underside of
the bricks or the blocks,
it would say something
on the bottom, like, um,
Oh, you're talking about like, like when
it's like a drinking game or something.
Just a party game.
Come on.
I'm just trying to understand.
You know, you're, you're at youth group
and you're having this party game and it
says something like run
around the run around the building, you
know, and you put that
brick and you put that brick up,
you know, and eventually, but it'll have
like different phases on that.
So like you would have stuff written
under there and like the first
ones would be easy because of
it in English.
But then as you get further, like that's
in like Chinese or Arabic or whatever.
Or it tells you to do something to mess
with the other person.
And it's almost like, and it messes up
the tower to follow
because, so now it's like,
because we have a miscommunication
accident, but I bumped into you because I
didn't realize that's
what you were doing.
And now you knocked it over.
Or maybe there could even be something
where after a few rounds, you can no
longer talk to each other.
Yeah, I don't know.
That doesn't even seem like
it would hinder you, though.
What if you change the game?
Sorry.
And you just call it repent.
And what do you, what do you do?
It's the same game.
It's just called repent.
Repent.
Just like Scrabble.
It's the same game.
It's just called
babble or ask forgiveness.
Yeah.
Please forgive me.
I just took your red pawn or you know,
OK, so we're talking about the in the in
the other game with the end times, right?
So what if you do like a Last of Us type
game, but it takes
place during revelations?
So interesting.
So you're going through
and you're doing everything.
But in the meantime, like in the
background, you see like, oh, there's the
there's there's there's the beast.
And then like the end of the game, you
see like everything falling into like the
pit of fire because you know, it might be
interesting for a game like that.
You know, in some of these RPGs, you have
to you talk to people and
you have different options.
And depending on what you say, like Final
Fantasy type, I suppose.
I don't know if depending
on how you answer changes.
It's like the course of the game.
Yeah. Yeah.
What if you could also like try to save
people and depending on what you say to
certain NPCs, you can either save them or
not save them so you can actually play
through it multiple times trying to save
people to get to the end game depending
on how like what you choose to say to them.
And if they react in anger, you know what
you then say or like or maybe you have to
leave it alone and come back because you
can't save them here.
But maybe you can save
them later in the game.
But also you can just completely blow it.
And that might be interesting.
But like you're always on the run because
you refuse the mark of the beast.
So therefore you can't just go and buy
stuff where you can't enter places.
And there's an
underground Christian market.
And that's how you get food.
Yes.
And news market that you kind of watch or
you listen to on some like wave radio
that tells you like
update the two witnesses died.
But then they came back and they're just
like, whoa, we got to get there.
Like what? That's a eye
throwback to two episodes.
But I think doing like a
Last of Us like revelation type.
I think that's I
think that's a great idea.
I'm actually surprised.
That's not something
people are jumping on.
Like I said, because how many times are
we doing the story of Jesus?
I mean, love the
story of Jesus, whatever.
But like, you know, whatever.
I'm scared.
You know what I mean?
Like we have we have Jesus.
We are we have this we
have this game come out.
We have the chosen.
We just got the king of.
Well, technically, you're still getting
Jesus because that's the
he's now going to be on a horse.
He's not on a donkey.
He's on a horse.
But he's coming to make war.
I'm just saying we have the best part is
at the end of the game, Jesus comes in on
the horse and you're like, all right, I'm
going to slaughter you all now.
Wow.
That's cool.
That might be cool if you do if you do it
right and and not to
shift us back to other thing.
But I appreciate about this.
What's this game called?
Open gate open gate.
That's selling it to us.
They might want to change the name.
Well, I keep honestly I keep forgetting
open gate nine zero.
Zero zero zero zero.
Why is it called gate zero?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I'm thinking gate like Stargate some gate
zero people may be a different maybe a
different name there.
What was I going to say?
Oh, I think the the production value
looks looks pretty good.
Yeah.
Because I think sometimes like people see
Christian movies Christian content and
it's like not always of the best quality.
It's like it's like a homework movie.
It looks it looks quality.
I think I think and
not to be little them.
And also if you're still looking for
voice actors open gate.
It's a zero open gate.
A.I.
What are you saying?
Wow.
I'm not picking me now.
Anyway, a shepherd boy.
I had my sheep.
Just have him be the sheep.
I say that a lot.
But not to belittle any
work that they're doing.
But there are so many these days so many
great like places to go to make great
games like unreal engine or indie games
are so much so much
higher quality these days.
It's very accessible.
Like almost almost anyone can make.
And as I say that yes
they use unreal engine.
So that kind of explains why they have
such a good quality there on top of their
hard work belittling anything.
And not belittling you
know big studio tiles either.
But like quite frankly like there's so
many video mainstream video
games that are just not good.
So indie games are really thriving and
you never know which one
is just going to take off.
You look at something like like Five
Nights at Freddy's that was an indie game
and now it's a triple A title.
Because it's it's not necessarily about
graphics or anything like that.
It's just like give good content.
And that's it.
That's that's all it is like.
Well and I think I think another reason
why it might be taking longer and
everything else is because one you want
the great quality but I'm sure you're
also vetting these people these
developers to be like minded like you
because you know being a
Christian game being whatever.
You know you want like
believers I would think.
Right not to say that there isn't anyone
that or people working on the game but
I'm sure they probably are use our
picking from people that or at least
people who believe in it.
Right.
You know whether whether
they're they're saved or not.
And then I'm sure there's also aspects of
it to be like OK we're doing this.
Is this OK.
Does anyone have an issue with this.
Is there an aspect of this
that maybe is like someone.
It might be wrong you know to do.
I think that's how far left field are we
taking this or did we take too much
liberty in this aspect of the game and do
we need to dial it back a little bit.
Yeah I mean as long as it
doesn't become a GTA 6 right.
Well does say you can
explore in free realm.
So I'm sure there's an aspect where you
just like walk around.
But that's probably
more like this is a man.
You know I mean like where you take a
mission or Assassin's Creed but like you
know it's like in between a mission it's
just like you can go and deliver some
people right or or stop this person from
you know these people from doing whatever
or you know help the sheep or whatever
you know like that's.
Yeah because it's like limited limited
free room I think is what I was reading.
So it's it's still within the parameter
of like the linear part of the game but
you can definitely venture out to parts
that's not going and it's eventually
probably directing you
back to whatever objective.
Yeah and that's always fun and certain
video games too right like I remember
doing that love doing that in all the
Spider-Man games you know just trying to
get every single trophy for like oh you
want to make sure you find all
Spider-Man's backpacks and find whatever.
I'm sure you can do some type of aspect
with this game to be really find off 1000
fish deliver the 1000
fish deliver the pizzas.
Oh Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 2. There's no
pizza as a Bible. The leavened bread.
Break this pepperoni pizza and feed 5000.
There's a there is no yeast in the bread.
That's the yeast of his problems. Yeah
that's that's Old Testament alright. Any
other comments here
before we wrap this up.
I'm I think I'm good. Yeah that's about
it. Like I said we got the trailer for
the game and the website. What's the name
of the game. Gate zero. Yeah I did it.
I had to think about it. Gate zero. We're
gonna have the website. We're gonna have
the steam page and all that good stuff in
the podcast description you know give
them give them a follow.
Give them a wish list you know because
that's that's really gonna help them and
then maybe whenever this comes out maybe
we'll play it and do
another episode on this.
Maybe that would be fun. I like a review
there. That'd be great. Yeah. Or we could
even maybe stream it. Maybe that'll be
our first stream or something.
Possibly because we I did get the We Who
Endure Twitch channel. I did get that
name just in case. We'll see. We'll see.
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We had the grapes on it.
Was it Welch's?
No.
In a can, the Welch's soda?
No.
I think it's Crush, wasn't it?
Because when I looked up the can,
you know what I'm talking about, right?
We used to have it sometimes.
That's what I'm talking to.
Hello, hello,
testing, hello, hello, hello.
I'm listening, I'm listening.
Yeah, I taste it.
It was this one, right?
Oh, yes, yes, it was.
So there's an energy
drink, these energy drinks,
Alani energy drinks.
See it updated the time.
Oh, yeah, I've seen those.
There's a Cosmic Cloud one.
It's essentially a great drink.
It smells exactly like it,
and the initial taste
tastes exactly like it.
And when I had it, I
was like, oh my gosh,
I'm in Flushing in 1998.
It was so crazy, it was like so cool.
I wish I had something to give to you
because it took me back.
Could've mama birded that in my mouth.
Stop spilling everything.
You spilled it last time.
What are we doing?
What is it?
Some video game thing.
Some video game thing.
What verse can we do for this?
Have a look carefully then how you walk,
not as unwise but as wise,
making the best use of the
time because the days are evil.
That's not a bad one.
Have we used that though?
Am I wrong?
I don't think so.
Meaning like, you know,
people that spend all their time
playing games.
Yeah, no, I got it.
I don't know.
There's one.
Like, are we preaching against?
No, no, no, no.
I'm just trying to--
I kind of took it as like he's going out
trying to make use of his
time because everything's evil.
I have fought the good fight.
I have finished the course.
I have kept the faith.
Is there a--
I think I finished the--
Is there a verse about grandmas?
Grandmas?
Let me see if they have
a verse on their website.
(whispering)
Just a verse.
Gosh, man, what are you--
Could do here I am, send me.
What the heck just happened?
Where is it?
(grunts) Is that a bad one?
I almost want to save
it for something better.
That's true.
They will still bear fruit in old age.
They will stay fresh and green.
Gray hair is a crown of splendor.
It is attained in the
way of righteousness.
I can destroy this house in three days.
I will rebuild it.
How about just the--
Finding the one, the one lamb?
How about looking for--
How about when--
When--
Gosh.
Mary and--
And what's his name?
Go looking for Jesus.
Oh, okay, yeah.
Let's do that because I don't see when we
will ever use that again.
(laughing)
Matthew--
Is there Matthew, go ahead. Is there Matthew good?
I should do Luke.
If anybody wants to give me one.
Maybe I like Matthew.
Actually, would it be Matthew?
Yeah, I think that was--
I think it was Luke.
If anyone's got something.
Luke 2.
Let's see.
Wait.
Sorry.
Luke 239, I think.
Luke--
His parents went to--
To, yeah, 41.
And they finished the day.
So as they returned, the boy Jesus
lingered behind a Jerusalem.
And as Joseph and his
mother did not know it,
but supposing him to
have been in the company,
they went into his journey and saw him
among their relatives.
So when they did not find him,
they returned to Jerusalem seeking him.
It's a long verse.
They actually have--
They actually have a
thing on their website
where it takes you to the Bible app,
and it's like, go through, like,
explore the epic journey with them,
and they kind of take you through, like,
a little thing with Bible verses.
It's pretty cool.
That was one of my points about the game
of, like, I hope people play it.
It causes them to--
Read the Bible?
Read the Bible and actually explore
the events happening in the game
as it happens in the Bible and to go back
and not just play the game for the sake
of playing a game and just
feeding yourself that way.
Someone give me the verse.
I just had it.
Oh.
What about 49?
And he said to them, why did you seek me?
You're seeking--
I really just found it at the same time.
Well, you can do 46 now.
So it was that after three days,
they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers,
both listening to them
and asking them questions.
It could just be that one.
Or the one before that.
So when they did not find him,
they returned to Jerusalem seeking him.
So it was that after three days,
they found him in the temple.
Yeah.
Yeah, okay, that's fine.
What is this, Luke 2 46?
Are you doing this so when
they did not find him or 46?
No, so it was that after three days.
So we need to talk about how
like in the trailer it showed.
I was assuming.
I'm looking for it, okay.
Or at least our
assumption as to what has happened.
Just so it makes sense of
why we chose that verse.
Yeah, so let's try not to forget that.
Now, so it was that after three days,
they found him in the temple,
sitting in the midst of the teachers,
both listening to them
and asking them questions.
Luke 2 verse 46. Okay.
And cut.
That actually was better than--