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New Video Game With Spiritual Spin from Chopra Sounds Intriguing
Deepak Chopra has apparently had a large team working for some time developing a new video game called Leela that is designed at least in part to encourage and teach spiritual principles in a gaming environment on the XBox 360. The game is being developed by THQ, Inc., one of the better known video game development outfits.
I was an early adopter and supporter of the first spiritually centered video game, a production called The Journey to the Wild Divine that used a biofeedback mechanism and ran on Windows initially and later on Macintosh. Chopra was involved in the design and development of that product as well. That game developed a fiercely loyal niche following but never set any sales records anywhere.
But I agree with Dr. Chopra that we can "accelerate neural development and biological evolution through video games" and that doing so is a worthwhile, if perhaps not profitable, undertaking. What isn't clear is the intersection of people who are interested in spiritual development with those who own and use the underlying technology. I suspect THQ will regret having made its initial play on the XBox (though a somewhat modified Wii version is also apparently to be released). Those systems are largely enjoyed by hard-core gamers, who are young, male and frenetic. Deployment on a desktop or perhaps a mobile platform like the iPad might have been a smarter marketing move. We'll see.
I won't be experiencing Leela unless it does come out on the Wii; I at least have one of those. I'm not a gamer but we have as a family enjoyed some of Wii's sports offerings.
