That’s revenue, not profit, and such a figure doesn’t make it a major player by any stretch. Still, that’s $US210,000, which the publisher said is “considerably more than income in any two consecutive quarters since the company’s inception”.
Left Behind’s figures are no doubt helped by its distribution deals with Walmart across the Bible Belt. The maker of “Left Behind 3: Rise of the Antichrist” (pictured) also credits a strong word-of-mouth campaign spread by experienced brand evangelisers.
“Over the past two years,” CEO Troy Lyndon said in a statement, “we’ve invested in the development of the Christian video game market by giving away more than 50,000 PC games to our network of Pastors who share our desire to provide healthier video game alternatives to their youth.”
What Christian Game Developers Consider Success [Game Politics]
doubleDizz
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 11:48 AMCan anyone explain the attached screenshot? I don’t get it…
Stinky
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 12:39 PMIt appears the premise is you play as a devout christian who was left 4 dead after the rest of the believers where whisked to heaven during the rapture. It is your holy duty to go on a rampage and kill everybody else left behind because they are evil satanists and/or possibly the antichrist.
S_juice
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 1:43 PMWow!!… you got all that from a pitchure of people on the street and a yellow delorian.
You are gifted my friend
Stinky
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 2:35 PMYes. And the bar signifies the amount of sins the evildoer has on their soul.
Roland
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 5:51 PMIt’s not a delorian, it’s a lambo…
doubleDizz
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 4:20 PMbut why aren’t they wearing tea-towels on their heads?
P&VG
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 2:45 PManyone up for starting a christian video game company with me – Faith+1 studios and we shall just rip off already established game franchises and make them more christiany.
Stinky
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 2:59 PMI’ve got a great idea: You’re a one-man army and your mission is to save humanity! I think a good title would be HALO!
Justin
Monday, September 27, 2010 at 5:17 PM“who share our desire to provide healthier video game alternatives to their youth.”
Video games about the rapture are healthy? Ahh… Ok.