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True Light Games Releases Through The Shadows

 

 

Atlanta, October 6, in the year of our Lord 2014 -- True Light Games is pleased to release "Through The Shadows - Episode One, Chapter One" for Windows PC. Through The Shadows is a First Person, 3D Episodic Adventure Game for Windows PC. The first episode, titled "The Darkness Revealed" is an ongoing game that unfolds in individual game releases, called Chapters.

The first Chapter is now available for instant download for $9.99. It provides 10+ hours of game play, full of investigation, reading, solving clues and puzzles, opening new environments, and unfolding the larger story.

You play the role of Jesse, a young man who finds himself at the start of a mysterious journey. He is led by information passed down to him by a lineage of people who call themselves The Seekers of the Truth. As the story progresses, The Seekers open his eyes to a dangerous world of a deceptive enemy that wishes to erase the legacy that The Seekers strive to protect.

This video game would fit the category of a story-based adventure game based upon historical fiction and an imaginative approach to share the developer's Christian world view, while aiming to entertain and challenge the most devout 'serious' gamer, whether the interest in game play is purely secular or Christian. Where the game does focus on introducing biblical principles throughout the development of the story and game play, it is not obtrusive to the goal of providing a game that lives up to the highest artistic and entertaining standard.

According to the developer, Michael Angel, of True Light Games, "Through The Shadows is the result of nearly 7 years of research and over 3.5 years of development to bring Chapter One to market. It is the result of my heart, my love for story-telling, composing music, and a love for The Lord.

Through The Shadows was born out a niche that I felt was missing in the large format, AAA 'serious' game community. The challenge to make a 'Christian' video game that is not limited by a preachy, edutainment perspective, or even worse, a compromise on standards or principle, was frowned upon by a large segment of the development community. For the serious gamer who also happened to be a Christian, the choices were to avoid game play or to abandon their morals for the sake of the form of entertainment that they wished to partake in. Developers largely saw the solution to either compromise on principle or to create games that dance around the issue of belief. I became overwhelmingly aware of this difficulty once I decided to respond to the issue and create the game I would want to play. I believe that Through The Shadows is a proof that this challenge can be accomplished.

The player focuses on learning information that will propel them forward, through 34 levels of constantly changing 3D worlds. They are introduced to biblical text, principles, and concepts that are not compromised for the sake of the story, but are not forced upon the secular player in a way that pushes them into a corner. You play through the view of the character that you play, and will experience the fictional story from a perspective that reflects my values, but at the end of the journey, you may still disagree with some of the points made, but you will hopefully still anxiously await Chapter Two's release! This is an adventure in and of itself, but it is also a call to other developers to raise the bar on content and seek to attack the toughest issues that we are going to face in society, and I am here to help be a part of the solution with the help of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior."

 

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