I wonder if it's possible to unlock the secret character -- Tim beat the game on hard mode and that didn't seem to do it.

If they're thinking about improving the game, here's a list of suggestions I would recommend:

- More characters! (Championship edition?)
- Two attack buttons rather than one (a single one gets boring).
- Some dialogue or 'lines' that fighters spout between matches, even the original Street Fighter game had that.
- Taunts?
- The ending was a bit too bland.
- The stages were also a bit too bland, all of them were just simple cityscapes.

Huh? Yet another Bible Fight?
I'd rather see different kinds of fatty foods battle each other in someones stomach...

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Bible Fight

That one looks nice too, I hadn't heard of it. That one's only about the Bible though, whereas this is world religions, so it's more egalitarian I guess.

I have never liked a Flash game. Probably 90% of them have the same, terrible paper cutout art style that dominates TV animation nowadays. Plus, most of them are sluggish and play like crap. As a result, I can't even bring myself to try this.

Also, the "enlightened atheist poking fun at all those silly religious nuts" meme is really getting old. We get it, you're SOOO smart, and those religious people are SOOO dumb. Happy? Can we grow up now?

Okay, I tried it, just to be fair. And my first instincts were right. Yawn!

By the way, I hope nobody here finds my above comments offensive. I love this blog and appreciate the work of all the contributors. I think Paul Eres' interviews are especially insightful.

My criticisms are aimed at the game, and at Flash games in general.

No offense taken. I tend to agree with you about flash games, I don't really play them 'for fun', it's more like they're occasionally interesting experiences and sometimes I see something done in a flash game that gives me an idea for a game. But when it comes to just playing a game for fun I usually use downloaded ones. The only flash game I really got into was Dofus, which is really well-made. The games at Orisinal.com are also really good examples of flash games, even if they're a bit simple.

Paul, I guess Flash stuff is to video games as fast food is to the culinary arts. As someone who has been playing games since the 1980s and enjoys the really good ones, I find most Flash stuff to be insultingly simple, shallow and lazily put together. It's as if the last 20+ years of game design never happened and the developers are re-learning everything from scratch.

And even in the hands of a talented creator, Flash is probably not the ideal tool for making games. Flash games just don't "feel" right to me. I guess that's partly a matter of personal preference, and partly the fact that it isn't very fast at runtime.

I like playing games in full-screen and being immersed in the experience. So browser stuff just doesn't cut it for me.

omfg.. how can i even take this -offensive- game to be funny, when they even have a censored version, w/o M's face?

I believe that's because some very strict-interpretation Muslims believe that Mohammad should never be depicted visually (though I've also met Muslims who were okay with it and didn't mind).

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that religion is a blight that makes the world a worse place because its based on an irrational premise of assigning 100% probability to certain axioms, regardless of how ridiculous or ennobling these axioms might be. I think games can do a lot to wake people up to that.

Faith Fighter does not deeply leverage the procedural strength of the medium to highlight to problem with faith. It does hint at it with animations. A movie or cartoon could have done the same thing. However, for what procedural value it has, I enjoy this game. I got a big kick when I found out who the final boss was.

Ahahahaha... brilliant!

Patrick,

If blind faith is a problem (and it may well be), then many anti-religious people should have a look in the mirror. I have found that many of them believe in things far more fantastic, and more easily disproven by the application of reason, than the existence of a god or gods. If I'm right, a little humility might be in order where it is currently most lacking.

Walter, almost all atheists I see don't believe it because of moral reasons and science