Jason Anthony

Jason Anthony is a speaker, writer and game designer. He works primarily at the intersections of religion and games.

Those games have included a mash-up of Sabbath rituals and Olympic Games (Shabbat-put!), a reinvention of the bloody Mayan ball games (Sacrifice Play), a secular version of the Muslim call to prayer, developed in Turkey (The Hush) and a fully-gamed seminary chapel service (In the Cards). His largest project is the Ten Year Game, an attempt to create fully-gamed, belief-agnostic religious community.

He presents talks about his work often, at venues that include London's Institute for Contemporary Art, the Institute for the Future's Ten Year Forecast, the NExT ideas festival in Denmark and the University of Colorado Boulder.



His essays and articles have appeared in the Washington Post, Al Jazeera America, Christian Century, Killing the Buddha, Boston Review, Religion Dispatches, and the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture. Playing Religion in Digital Games will be available in April 2014.