Exodus Adventures CD

GAME 1:
The story of the Hebrews in Egypt, Moses & Pharaoh, and the Plagues

Brother Deni greets Robin at St. Catherine’s Monastery with a message from her grandfather. She views a short film in the Miriam’s Monastery Library, must find the helicopter key, then fly across the Nile to the Land of Goshen. Following her onboard navigation system, she lands at Goshen Village and visits her grandfather at the Goshen Dig Site.

See a clip of the helicopter your kids must fly to Goshen

In Goshen she meets her grandfather who tells her the story of how the Hebrews came to live in Egypt, and how they became slaves. The Dig Site which Robin and her grandfather walk through is a recreation of an actual archaeological site in Goshen. It includes an archaeologically-correct Hebrew home which Robin can walk through. Dabney has several video presentations that Robin must find in the dig site. She learns about the birth of Moses. Then an Egyptian soldier appears and forces Robin to collect straw and take it to the mud pits.

Once she has completed her Goshen tour, Robin flies her helicopter to Midian where she encounters God in the Burning Bush, just like Moses did. God takes over the teaching here and asks Robin several questions. The ruins in this area require some figuring out in order to encounter God. A large marker on the hill gives her instructions.

At the end of the burning bush level, Sir Dabney appears to tell Robin to fly to Pharaoh’s Palace to learn the story of Moses’ confrontation with Pharaoh. Inside the Palace, a Hebrew slave quizzes Robin about the Plagues on Egypt. Answering the questions correctly is her only way out. Watch out for the guard and frogs!

After escaping from Pharaoh’s Palace, Robin flies back to the Monastery and must climb Masah Tower (“Massah” means “testing” in Hebrew) to meet her Grandfather one last time. He has some reflection questions for her, if she’s not too tired.

Game 1 has several video clips in it which help tell the story. They are courtesy of Exodus.~.Revealed!

GAME 2: Crossing the Red Sea, Manna, Manna, Water from Rock

Robin’s grandfather, Sir Dabney, meets her in the library and tells her to go find “The Red Sea Room” at St. Catherine’s monastery where the monks have recreated the “The Red Sea Experience” for pilgrims.

After viewing a special video about the Red Sea crossing and zapping scorpions with her airblaster, Robin heads back to Miriam’s Library where the monks have created a Song of Miriam MAZE. It can only be solved if they play the song tiles in the correct order. Miriam’s song summarizes the joy and the praise which the Israelites experienced after being rescued.

Solving the maze opens up a secret passage to the Trail to Marah through the monastery wall and out into the Sinai Desert. Out in the desert, Robin learns about the Israelites constant complaining. Robin arrives at Marah and meets a complaining and thirsty Israelite. Robin reads a scripture scroll about how Moses made the waters sweet, and is instructed to find a branch to do the same.

After finding the branch, Robin offers a prayer to God and the waters are made sweet. The thirsty Israelite praises God –summarizing this part of the story, then both take a dip in the cool waters.

Robin helps a thirsty Israelite at the Well of Marah.

As night falls, Robin must make it to the Cave of Manna. Its entrance is hidden down the trail, but Robin is an experienced adventurer! Once inside the Cave she meets up with her friend Brother Deni the Monk. He asks about her journey and what she has learned. In the morning Deni teaches her about the miracle of the Manna and she collects it in a short manna game.

After collecting manna, Robin gets a message from Dabney to climb the cliff to the helicopter, and fly back to the monastery where she must climb Masah Tower to find the Staff of Moses. She’ll need it to strike the Rock of Horeb, -which the Monastery is built around. Something special and fun happens at that point -the bottom of the monastery becomes a huge swimming pool! Robin jumps in to talk to her grandfather and Brother Deni who are swimming around with some final thoughts on the story. Swim up to them to hear their thoughts and practice a few high dives!

Robin needs to listen carefully to her grandfather, Sir Dabney. Not only does he appear at locations with teaching content, he tells Robin what to do next.

Game 3: “To the Promised Land”

Game 3 is a “Helicopter Flying Quiz Game” that introduces “the rest of the Exodus story” as it is found in Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Leviticus.

Robin takes off from the Monastery and flies into the Sinai Wilderness on her way to Mt Nebo where Moses stood to survey the Promised Land. As she flies, she must refill her tanks and answer quiz questions.

See Robin take off from the Monastery:

Without going into a lot of Bible detail, this game is designed to make students aware of those books, and crack open their Bibles to find the answers to the station questions.

While Robin flies, Sir Dabney shares some perspective on “the rest of the story” over the helicopter radio. He greets her in person on Mt Nebo at the end of the game and shares some additional thoughts about the Israelites journey to the Promised Land.

Our Game 3 Lesson Plan has a copy of the map and Dabney’s final questions in a handout format. It’s also part of a larger four week set of lessons free from Sunday Software.

More Graphics from Exodus Adventures CD

Short video clips from a documentary about the Exodus are inserted into two of the games.

Part of Game 1 takes place at the Goshen Dig Site.

Yes, there really is girl named Robin who provided us with both the voice and the digital image for the Robin character in the game.

Our “chanting monks” recording the Miriam’s Song Game version of Exodus 15.