Liturgical Gaming

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Were you once a gamer or just always wanted to give it a try, but you thought that your reflexes were just not up to it? You have seen cool music related games that while they look like fun - just aren't your style?

Have you ever wanted to pretend to be a church organist and just never had the time or musical ability to pursue this skill? That it would be so cool to put your fingers to the keyboard and produce awesome church filling organ music?

If you have answered yes to any of these questions than the company behind Grand Theft Theology and other fine games has the game made just for you.

Organ Hero BoxOrgan Hero I is the ultimate in rhythm video games where you are not limited to just a few frets like in other games but row after row of keyboards.

During game play a scrolling flow of colored notes appear one by one along with the music.  After you see the note quickly press the proper note on the keyboard that is related to the color code.

Sure this game is much more challenging than others in this genre, but you are an adult now ready for a real challenge.  After just a few short months or years you will be ready to play the game beyond just the beginners level.


Organ Hero I periphialIncluded with Organ Hero I is the organ peripheral used for gameplay.  Each key of each of the three keyboards is color coded to match the notes on the screen.

If yo want you can buy more organ controllers and daisy-chain them together to give you even more keyboards to use.

The organ controllers include a subwoofer to give you those bone-jarring vibrations when you play the lower not to give you the ultimate in large church organ simulation.

Organ Hero I ScreeenHere is an actual screenshot from Organ Hero I! The three colored rows represent each keyboard and you can easily see which is the next key to select.

Unlike in real life you can compete against your friends with Organ Hero I.  Just try bringing an organ from your church over to a friends house.

You can even choose from a variety of performance areas. Whether you want to select a famous cathedral in Europe or a smaller church you will soon feel like a seasoned organist on a world tour.  Give a organ recital without ever leaving your living room.

With Organ Hero I you learn to play against a wide variety of great organ music and we're not talking In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. If you are Catholic you might just think "Hey, didn't the organ go out with Vatican II?" Well not quite, Sacrosanctum Concilium actually said "The pipe organ is to be held in high esteem in the Latin Church, for it is the traditional musical instrument, the sound of which can add a wonderful splendor to the Church's ceremonies and powerfully lifts up men's minds to God and higher things."  In fact Organ Hero I is the official game of the Second Vatican Council.

So please support high quality and high culture gaming by buying Organ Hero I today.  We know that you are ready for something new.  Though we have to warn you that if Organ Hero I dose not do well in the market we will have to lower ourselves to other products like "Liturgical Guitar Hero" and don't you already have enough of that from your local Catholic parish?  Do you really want your kids asking you to buy "Liturgical Guitar Hero" and then rocking out in your living room like they were at a Lifeteen Mass.  'nuff said - please support Organ Hero I.
*Thanks to Javier Plumey for permission to use this idea that came from the excellent and always fun  Hands and Feet podcast.

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Sounds great ! I had just been noticing the promotion of Guitar Hero and even saw a young lady in dire need of practice trying out a setup at the mall.

Seriously, we always need to think : where will our next organist, choir member, altar boy, deacon, priest, CCD director come from? Not from thin air, and not even from someone else's parish.

Do not lock up those organs !

Great job Jeff. And as always, there is no moments that cannot be a teaching moment.

Hilarious! And thanks for the plug.


Upcoming titles you may want to check out:

Halo 4 - The Quest for Holiness
Call of Duty 4 - Spiritual Smackdown
Sims:Rome - Not happy with the latest from Rome, then make your own! (just a joke people).

As I like to say: If this is not real, THEN IT SHOULD BE!

What, no pedalboard???

Where are those "bass notes" coming from? Some 64's on the manuals, perhaps???

Now THAT's bass!

Otherwise, an excellent opus, Jeff. Good to see that Vatican II quote, too.

Note: a 64' open pipe produces about 8 Hz - the C is three octaves below the C two ledger lines below the bass clef, and two octaves below the bottom C on a piano.

--Dr. Thursday

Too bad it's just a spoof! I'd love that game.

Pedalboard optional - I think it's another $49.95. Maybe Jeff could elaborate?

Hilarious stuff. I've been beginning to miss these parody products.
BMP

I'm wondering where the game for "Acolyte 2: Restoration" is...you know...the one where you're the MC and the "Easy" level is the Novus Ordo, "Difficult" is the Trid. Low Mass, and "Extreme" is the Papal Tridentine Easter High Mass celebrated outside of St. Peters and during inclement weather.

The nice thing about this game was the option of languages "Latin, English", easy controller use, and you had a store down the street so if you needed to go get emergency matches for candle lighting, you could do it... It had a neat multiplayer so that you & your buddies could form a "super" acolyte team and work your way up from being a candle-bearer to MC, then work your way up from doing Sunday Eucharistic celebrations to seasonal masses to diocese to papal. And you & your crew could help each other out with voice commands/talking... "Matches! Vestibule! Candle Out! Candle Out!"

Hardest part of some church scenarios was just finding the tabernacle...

Ah well...

Sounds great, I can't wait for Organ Hero II.

I can't wait for "Harmonica Hero".

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