Let There Be Light: Knowledge is Fire

This game is a long-burn incremental where you earn knowledge (Da'at) through the practice of actively writing Biblical Hebrew letters and vocabulary then convert that into FIRE to light the world map. The game supports mouse and stylus inputs for computer and finger for mobile. 

The game organizes vocabulary based on commonality in the Biblical Hebrew corpus, so it is primed to help with anyone fresh to the language as well as holding a longer tail which includes attestations down to fewer than 25 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible. 

FOR IOS USERS: Swipe left and right to switch between screens. 

SAVES ARE STORED BY BROWSER CACHE SO CLEARING CACHE WILL DELETE YOUR SAVE. 

BACKGROUND:

Currently under development by a PhD student at Cambridge whose Masters was in Biblical Hebrew translation theory. Built with the desire to have something to continue engaging with the Hebrew language in addition to regular Bible reading and to make some of the tedious memorization tasks more engaging. Flashcards suck after all (even if they can be quite effective). Looking for any and all feedback on the project as I continue to build it out. 

AI Disclosure: Claude code is responsible for helping write the GDscript for Godot and run some of the math for balancing knowledge generation and spending but the concept, design layout, writing, judgment setup, and artwork is mine, excepting the map which was drawn by my best friend for my own fantasy world. 

Attribution and Credits:

Credits. Made by D. M. Jorgenson with Godot Engine (MIT). The map of Tilvaerelse is by Ian "Brotnovski" Brotnov, used with permission. Hebrew text, morphology and lexicon from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible and the STEP Bible(CC BY 4.0). Typefaces: Alef (OFL 1.1), Ezra SIL (OFL 1.1), and Keter YG by Yoram Gnat of the Culmus project (GNU GPL 2 with font exception is uploaded here as well the package is the 0.103 source with a 2012 retouch of ten glyphs). Sound effects are from Pixabay. The full credits and every licence text are in the game under Menu > credits and licences.

Glosses and semantic information are drawn from Tyndale House's https://www.stepbible.org/ and the attested forms of the Hebrew lexicon have been drawn from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. If you find any errors in play, please do not hesitate to let me know.