Jesus Christ has risen today… in a video game. Oh, and you are Jesus Christ.
I Am Jesus Christ, the world’s first Jesus simulator, allows gamers to slip into the sandals of the Judeo-Christian God and act out the New Testament’s greatest hits. Sort of.
As Jesus, players can use telekinesis to enhance their carpentry skills, charge up their “Holy Spirit energy” to perform miracles, invigorate a wedding reception by turning water into wine, teleport inside a sick child’s blood stream for healing, and avoid a ball of hellfire that is Satan in the desert. (Boss fight, anyone?) …
ice reporter Matteo Luppetti noted the obvious: the game “has ridiculously high meme potential.”
As Maksym Vysochanskiy, CEO of SimulaM, the developers behind I Am Jesus, told Vice, “We already had that problem with our trailers, but… somebody needs to make such a game.”
[No … no, they really didn’t. It only will feed into the generalized narcissism of these days in which many people imagine themselves to be God and that they can reorder reality to their whims rather than objective truth. On the other hand, one has to credit the game makers with a more direct approach to cashing in on Jesus. — Ed]
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