Comments on: Voice of God (tommakesgames)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 07:44:24 +0000

Thank you for creating this. I relate to it a lot, especially the part at the end where you’re like an outsider.

By: David T. Marchand

David T. Marchand — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 11:18:37 +0000

I’ll be reading them! (But don’t feel pressured to share what you don’t want to.)

By: Tom Cole

Tom Cole — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 10:52:18 +0000

Fair point David, but in all honesty I’m kind of undecided about those experiences.

It’s a part of my life that I don’t fully understand yet. I was a Christian, I gradually ‘devolved’ as it were (it wasn’t a sudden ‘aha’ moment like for many – often due to some kind of abuse of power by leadership) and now I’m a non-Christian.

But how I view that period of my life, what do I think now about what I was REALLY thinking? How did I REALLY feel? What was REALLY going on? I’m not sure, and so starting to do these Twine games is a way for me to explore it actually, and this one helped.

I’m also wary of not wanting to start any massive flame wars with people (given how religion makes feelings run pretty damn high). However, I’m going to have to overcome that I think if I’m going to be real and honest.

Thanks for your interest! I promise I’ll be doing more of these in the future!

By: David T. Marchand

David T. Marchand — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 16:42:26 +0000

Great post-mortem! Though I’m sure many of us expected a deeper look into your personal experiences with faith.

By: Tom Cole (tommakesgames)

Tom Cole (tommakesgames) — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:26:45 +0000

Thanks for the feedback guys! Only just found out about my entry here because someone tweeted about it.

Thanks Stephen for including me on the database (feeling encouraged).

David – you can see the post-mortem at my website now.
http://tommakesgames.com/wp/2014/01/post-mortem-on-voice-of-god/

By: Arrogant Gamer

Arrogant Gamer — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:37:49 +0000

This was very good! I kind of expected it would go in the direction it did, but at the beginning I allowed myself to believe that it was a game about someone’s honest religious experience. I thought, “that’s OK. I can deal with games about the religious experience as long as they don’t insult me.” So I was actually kind of “in the right place” with my disbelief nicely suspending, feeling like “yeah, I _do_ hear His voice.” When the doubts started to hit.

And they start so subtly! This is really a very nice offering and I’m glad to have played it.

By: clyde

clyde — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 03:09:43 +0000

The animation effects seem to resonate with the tone in such a way that I have opinions about this character’s particular form of pride. Well done.

By: David T. Marchand

David T. Marchand — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 17:29:33 +0000

Nice! I’ll be waiting for the post-mortem.