Joseph’s Story Software

Joseph’s Story is the entire story of Joseph
told through a fun software adventure game
with life application.

Overview…

We’ve taken the story of Joseph and turned it into an interactive landscape your students walk-through, see, hear, and experience as if it were a game. They steer “Robin MacTavish” the young archaeologist, through the ruins of Joseph’s lost Egyptian palace.  There are challenges, things to pick up, and apparent mazes, but in reality, your students are walking through the story in order of its episodes. Robin (your students) is guided by Sir Dabney MacTavish, her grandfather and esteemed archaeologist. Robin and her grandfather talk about the different parts of the story, and what to do next.

As your students move through the mysterious ruins, they hear, see and encounter Joseph’s story, from coat to well to reconciliation, and contemplate it’s meaning.  Dabney often poses questions and makes astute observations at key points in the underground journey.

Additional Bible background and questions are tucked into the game landscape for those who want to go deeper. Because it’s a fun game, they’ll want to play the story more than once.

A navigational menu allows players to jump to any part of the story they want to concentrate on, or visit to play again (or discuss with the teacher). Open our Teacher Notes toggle below on this page for ways to use this program in a one, two or three week class.

This program is a wonderful overview of the entire Joseph story, and particularly good as a review once you’ve studied the story a bit, or shown a Joseph video.

While designed to be played by students, some teachers are projecting it on the wall like a “presentation” and inviting students to come forward to help navigate Robin to the next learning area in the ruins. This “presentation” approach saves time as the teacher has our handy step-by-step guide to every detail of what to do next.

Details about the Ruins of Joseph’s Palace…

It seems Joseph built his Egyptian palace to tell his amazing story to future generations, and you are about to be one of the first students to enter its ruins.

But be careful!  There are passageways, gates, and spiders.  After learning about his coat and dreams, they come upon a covered well –but don’t get to close! ….it looks precarious. And when your students, of course, fall into the well, that’s when the “game” takes a turn. The ruins think that Robin is Joseph. She is captured by slave traders and sent to Egypt, meets Potiphar and his wife, gets sent to prison where she meets the baker and steward, and eventually is summoned by Pharaoh himself to solve the riddle of his dreams. At the end of the ruins, she emerges above ground with “the cup” and activates an area where Joseph’s brothers appear and have things to say.

The teacher’s guide outlines every detail, and how to successfully navigate each level and challenge.

Parts of the Joseph saga covered in this game:

After entering the Dig Tent, Robin and Dabney go into the ruins to learn these parts of the story:

• The Coat of Many Colors
• Joseph’s Dreams
• The Well of Rejection
• Potiphar’s House
• Pharaoh’s Prison
• Baker and Cupbearer
• Pharoah’s Dream
• The Cup of Benjamin
• …and Joseph’s reconciliation with his brothers.

The following video is a montage of various scenes, characters, and game interactions you’ll encounter in Joseph’s Story. It is set to the theme song, “Go Where the Spirit Says Go.”

Game Play & Presentation Notes:

There are times when you must navigate Robin to the next location, and when she gets to a certain spot, accomplish a certain activity –before the game will open the next activity or level. For example, in the first underground level, Robin must blast all the spiders before the gate to the Dream Rooms will open. Once inside, she is instructed to “go talk to Dabney” and when she finds him, he pauses the game to talk to her. (Thus, your students cannot bypass key content.) When he’s done talking, a gate opens and she can enter the “Dream of Wheat” room. Inside, the game takes over again–showing your students a narrated animation about Joseph’s dream of bowing wheat. Then the game returns control to the player who must follow Dabney to the next part of the story, …and so it continues.

A major change in the ruins happens when Robin falls into the well and is sent to Potiphar’s house.  The ruins starts to think she is Joseph. When his wife invites “Joseph” to come near, and Robin approaches, she accuses Joseph and calls for her guards. Robin tries to escape but the guards have her arrested and thrown in prison. (Grandpa Dabs appears and lets her out after some conversation.)

Your students then navigate Robin to find the Baker and Cupbearer and hear their dreams. When she correctly answers their questions, she is let out of prison. The level changes and Robin finds herself called to Pharaoh’s Palace to solve Pharaoh’s dream. 
When your students correctly answer Pharaoh’s dream,she is set free and meets up with her grandfather again who takes her through “Pharaoh’s Maze” to hear and see the story of how Joseph found his brothers again.

At the end of the maze, Robin finds the cup of Benjamin and emerges above ground. Now Robin must climb the scaffolding around an obelisk to meet her Grandpa Dabney again and show him Benjamin’s cup.

When she puts the cup into a niche in the obelisk, it triggers a final event: Joseph’s brothers appear and talk with Robin. She hears what’s in their heart –and ponders the true meaning of Joseph’s story.

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