Gamer.tv :: The Journey To Wild Divine: "The Journey To Wild Divine

16 Sep 2003 11:54 GMT

Al Reid

New Age philosophy comes to the PC.

Are you ready for a PC game that is both a 'healing journey and exhilarating adventure'? A gaming environment that 'reduces stress, centers the mind and calms the body', and will see your heart rate and other natural rhythms measured by a biofeedback module? Then come, my children, embrace The Journey to Wild Divine.


Newboy developer The Wild Divine Project, which operates out of an office in the Eldorado Canyon, Colorado, is trying to create a therapeutic tool for gamers fuelled by a development team packed with PH.D authors, ex-Buddhist monks and Tibetan composers. Two of the top members met while rock climbing, it's that spiritual.


'I've always wanted to experience the amazing things that wizards, sages and mystics experience in movies I've seen, books I've read and dreams I've had,' said animator and developer Corwin Bell. 'In The Journey to Wild Divine, users can actually experience mythological images and states of being; the game is cast in a way that it looks and feels like magic, but it's all working within the psyche.'


Blimey. If you work that out, you're obviously more spiritually in tune than us.


Biomedical engineer Kurt Smith broke off from composing music for the game from his studio, The Crucible (no, really),  to say that Bell's artistic spirituality when combined with graphics capabilities was 'mind-blowing'. Somewhere I can smell incense burning."