On a Baha'i Computer Game in the Making: Unreal

"The game Unreal is familiar to computer games fans worldwide as one of the most prominent games of the 'run and gun' genre - otherwise known as 'first person shooters'."

So begins an article on the work of Chris Nelson, a Baha'i who is head of the computer games design course at the University of Ballarat, that appeared in ABC Ballarat in Australia, entitled "Subverting violent computer games with religious poetry."

"The Valley of Love, screenshot 13" from http://www.thesevenvalleys.com/

"What I've done is to take a computer game - a first person shooter computer game, where the main idea is to actually run around and kill your opponents, and the person who gets the most kills wins in the end. I've taken it and subverted it, using the game to create an interactive artwork based on the mystical treatise The Seven Valleys," said Chris.


The Seven Valleys homepage is here, and more about Chris is here. -gw