Charles Battersby hosted the PAX East 2015 panel "The End Boss Doesn’t Exist: Atheism in Video Games", featuring Ken Levine of Irrational Games and Chris Avellone of Obsidian Entertainment. The panel played to a packed house, such that I couldn’t get in — so I invited Charles onto Polygamer to discuss what I missed!
In this interview, Charles defines some basic terminology before fielding such questions as why atheists are drawn to video games; why religion seems to influence music and art so much less than games; what fictional religions can learn from real-world religions; and how religion and atheism can be used respectfully in games.
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- PAX East 2015 panel "The End Boss Doesn’t Exist: Atheism in Video Games
- Dragon Age
- "Why Do Atheists Like Video Games More Than Religious People Do?"
- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s Emissary of the Prophets
- Game Church
- Final Fantasy IV’s Holy/White magic spell
- Koran quotations found in LittleBigPlanet
- Khadeja Merenkov on cultural gatekeepers & white privilege
- Ken Levine’s BioShock
- Fallout’s Hubologists
- What is Satanism?
- Quest for Infamy
- Hatred on Steam Greenlight
- Anita Sarkeesian receives Harvard Humanist of the Year award
- Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
- Games For Change
- Charles Battersby’s upcoming speaking schedule
- Life Is Strange developer interview
- Theater For Nerds
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