About the company
Heaven’s Blessings Tiny Zoo (HBTZ) was established in 2003 in the state of Oregon by woman business owner, Laurene Wells. HBTZ is a Christian company producing family friendly games with an entirely volunteer team. Laurene is the Designer and Producer of both Visions and Chariots. She continues to grow her business by offering valuable experience in the game development industry to volunteers who want to practice their skills on professional projects.
The flagship project of HBTZ is Visions, a Christian MMORPG set in the 2nd century Holy Land using the TGEA engine by Garage Games. Visions is a quest and skill based game where the player can experience history as a Roman citizen, study the profession 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 http://www.chariotsgame.com website.
And in July 2009 Laurene released her first card game, Messiah, through the online publisher TGC. She hopes to release another card game later in 2009 as well. Many have said that creating games with volunteers could not be done. We are accomplishing the impossible, because “With God, all things are possible”.