Video game for evangelization launched

THE Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) launched Friday a video game, which aims to evangelize the youth.

Dubbed as "Paolo's Journey", the game was developed by Filipino Catholic priest, Fr. Maximo Villanueva Jr. of the Diocese of Balanga in Bataan, with help of his friends from the Studio of Secret6, Inc.

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Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said the game was developed for the purpose of bringing back to the Philippines a technology for new evangelization.

Villegas explained that the game represents the journey of young people who are in search of the meaning in their lives.

"We want to say to our young people that the only lasting meaning that they can find in life is friendship with Jesus. All the others will pale in comparison," he said.

The game was based on Pope Benedict XVI's Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Paolo's Journey is about an adventure of a young boy who gets lost in the forest while chasing his kitten, then is trapped in a mysterious cave.

In order to escape the cave and finish the game, the player has to collect scrolls around the level, which contain possible answers and give the player strength to the questions given at the exit of the level.

The questions on each cave represent Easy, Medium and Difficult levels based on the Sacraments, the Ten Commandments and Christian Living.

For each correct answer, a piece of land will be shown to form a bridge where the player can move on to retrieve the three keys. It is only after retrieving the keys that the path to exit the level will be available.

"We pray that through Paolo's Journey they will discover Jesus as a friend, they will discover the church as a mother and this friendship with Jesus and this mother child relationship with the church will be their aid as they mature in age," the bishop said.

"We will give each bishop 10 copies of the game for them to disseminate in the different public schools in their respective dioceses," he added.

The video game will be also available in Catholic bookstore. (FP/Sunnex)