Entertainment Platform TruPlay Provides Faith-Based Video Games, Comics and More
Tired of your kids playing secular and violent games? Here's a faith-based option for your family.
Brent Dusing, CEO and founder of the entertainment platform TruPlay, recently spoke with The Stream’s Nancy Flory about the entertainment children are watching, how it affects them and how parents now have a faith-based option.
Only 31% of Gen Z believe in God, said Dusing. “[W]e say, ‘Children are most precious resource. They’re our most valuable.’ It’s true, but they’re also our most vulnerable.”
As parents, the creators of TruPlay content are concerned. Over the past several years, depression and secular entertainment have skyrocketed in tandem, Dusing said. “Right now [kids are] under attack from a lot of toxic content. And the average child is on a screen, 52 and a half hours a week. They’re only at church 30 minutes a week.”
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Dusing and his colleagues decided to create an option for parents who don’t want their kids watching toxic content. “So, rather than just complaining, we decided ‘Let’s go build a service to come alongside parents that not just contains faith, kind of Christian underpinnings that you can trust and good values, but stories you’re gonna love, gaming experiences that are really fun and beautiful art. Let’s go build something that’s really top notch so that everybody who enjoys it will love it.'” TruPlay is the product they came up with.
“[It’s] a phenomenal experience that tells stories through games, through comics, through cartoons we have that’s all about delivering fun, exciting, excellent entertainment experiences, but also delivering God’s truth.”
Watch the full interview:
Nancy Flory, Ph.D., is a senior editor at The Stream. You can follow her @NancyFlory3, and follow The Stream @Streamdotorg.
