While competing in Taylor University's Spring 2019 GameJam competition, I took a number of photos. I took several photos of students using virtual reality equipment to play a computer game, here's the second installment of those photos: You can find out more about the competition and whose game won here: https://gcsalter.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/computer-games-and-contests/ You can also check …
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What would it look like to make a regular Hollywood movie that talks about concepts like faith, forgiveness and redemption? These six films did just that: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/6-movies-you-didnt-notice-had-christian-themes (Article first published by the Odyssey on February 14, 2017).
A few months back, I took part in a computer game contest at Taylor University, and snapped some pictures of the events. These photos show one of the students playing a computer game that required virtual reality equipment. To read more about the competition and who won, check out this link: https://gcsalter.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/computer-games-and-contests/ You can also …
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What's it take to create a comic book story that's clean enough for kids to read but compelling enough that adults will find it interesting? Here's my take on some of the comic books that have actually pulled that off: https://www.theodysseyonline.com/6-kid-friendly-comics-read (Article first published March 13, 2018)
I was fortunate enough to have camera ready when I gave my presentation on J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. I recently finished uploading the video onto YouTube, you can find it here: https://youtu.be/l6jvmLfbjJs https://youtu.be/9w3GqyQJhzU
Going off of my presentation about monster figures in fiction, I recently wrote a post on 10 great movies with outsiders in them. There are also some great books that consider outsider perspectives and all the associate themes. Here are 10 such books: 1. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee While most people comment on …
After finishing my recent presentation on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, someone said they liked the quotes I used and wanted to know some of the books I used. Here are 5 of the books I read, they each provide excellent perspectives on the two men's lives and their famous friendship: The Company They Keep …
As you may know from reading my other posts, I've gotten to give several presentations about the Inklings the last few years. I've compared C.S. Lewis to Terence Fisher, and talked about how Tolkien's work compares to writers like H.P. Lovecraft and T.H. White. Today, I got to give a talk at Taylor University's C.S. Lewis Center about …
A while back I wrote an article where I argued that most monster movies actually show the true monsters are normal people. I expanded that idea in a recent presentation to talk about any stories that create a "monster dynamic" -- stories which describe a community and contrast them against a person they all reject. …
If you enjoyed reading about the computer game I helped develop, you can read more about the competition I developed it for in this article for Taylor University's newspaper: http://theechonews.com/big-dreams-compete-with-little-time-at-game-jam-2019/
