Ep. 94 - Soma Games Founder Chris Skaggs Creates Golden Video Game Options for Kids

Millions of teens and tweens absolutely love gaming and millions of parents are not sure how to set up safe parameters in the home regarding gaming. Not to worry, this episode is loaded with information on how to create a healthy gaming environment under your roof. Chris Skaggs, founder and COO of Soma Games, met Jesus while in the Navy. His main mission in life is to shape the “Hollywood of Tomorrow” by acting like the CS Lewis of video games today. Since gaming is the most dominant culture shifter and biggest revenue making entertainment medium, Chris wanted to impact the most youth with a Christian worldview. He stresses that parents are not powerless when it comes to managing video game playing and setting a screen time limit and watching the type of content will keep your kids from becoming an addict.

TAKEAWAYS

The positive and negative impact video games have on our kids

Soma Games’ creation of Redwall and other family-friendly games they offer

Video games as a controlled substance - Gaming addiction explained

Colleges offering excellent video game developer classes for students

🛠 TOOLS AND RESOURCES FROM EPISODE
How Soma Games Started: https://www.somagames.com/chapter-1/
Video Games As A Controlled Substance: https://bit.ly/SOMAblog1
Lost Legends of Redwall Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrhFdxDDJFg
Legends of Redwall: https://legendsofredwall.com/
Video Games As A Modern Apologetic: https://bit.ly/SOMAblog2
Get The Game on Steam: https://bit.ly/SOMASTEAM
Azusa Pacific University: https://www.apu.edu/
Biola University: https://www.biola.edu/
The Social Dilemma Movie: https://www.thesocialdilemma.com/

🔗 CONNECT WITH CHRIS SKAGGS
Website: http://www.somagames.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomaGames
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RedwallGame
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/C2uamm4
Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1305120
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lostlegendsofredwall/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomaGames
YouTube: https://bit.ly/3INprP4
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/444370/admin/
Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/938635

🔗 CONNECT WITH COUNTER CULTURE MOM
https://linktr.ee/CounterCultureMom

📺 WATCH OUR PREVIOUS SHOWS
https://bit.ly/theCCMshow

📲 GET OUR APP & FREE PARENT MEDIA GUIDE
http://bit.ly/landingpageCCM

💵 SUPPORT THE MISSION
2021 Recap & 2022 Goals: https://bit.ly/CCMDonate2021
Give Tax-Deductible Donation: https://counterculturemom.com/partner/