Laurene is the owner of Heaven's Blessings Tiny Zoo, a Christian software company dedicated to making family friendly games for people of all ages. Laurene has been married to her husband Ron since 1991 and they have 4 children that she homeschools. Family is her inspiration and driving motivation for the work that she does. Laurene's primary role in the company is Producer, which is a really fancy word for saying she does a little bit of everything and works more hours than she should trying to do things she doesn't always know know to do. Her best skills are art and writing, though she finds herself doing a lot of project management, administration, marketing, level building, and of course game design as well.
The flagship project of HBTZ is Visions, an online game set in the 2nd century Holy Land being created by an entirely volunteer team using TGEA by Garage Games. Visions is a quest and skill based game where the player can experience history as a Roman citizen, study the skills of a trade, and learn about Biblical history through visions and dreams. Visions is still in development.
Also produced by volunteers through HBTZ is Chariots, a racing game set in ancient Rome on the island of Cyprus. Players can race on foot, on horseback or in a chariot. Chariots was released in July 2008 and is available for sale on the chariotsgame.com website. Laurene is the Project Leader and Producer of both games. We are accomplishing the impossible, because “With God, all things are possible”.
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