Are video games the next frontier for Christian storytellers?

A new era of video games is dawning and it's time to get involved

On March 28, 2025, almost exactly a year ago, two notable things happened to me as a writer: an anthology published my work for the first time and I posted a beta demo for my first text-based video game.

The short story was polished. It was ready. I wrote five drafts before submitting it and the anthology itself had an entire team involved with editing, marketing, making the book beautiful, et cetera. Then when it came out, eighteen authors all did their darndest to get their hard-earned audiences to buy the thing.

We were happy to sell 49 copies in a week (largely just to us authors).

Meanwhile the video game was super rough. Typo-ridden. Included a game breaking bug. It was a single chapter rough draft that I blitzed through to get to the end then posted to a forum as a prototype to show people what I was envisioning.

Within a week, Chapter 1 of The Iron King’s Heir had ten thousand views and …