Covenanter · Closed beta opens Saturday 31 October
Unconsumed Games
Games that abide.
Unconsumed Games creates games grounded in the Word of God, teaching children the Bible, sound doctrine and the history of the Church. Our first, Covenanter, opens its closed beta on Reformation Day, 31 October.
Why they last
Not burned up. Made to last.
Most games are played, used up and forgotten. Ours are made to last. A child who learns a verse, a doctrine or a true account of the past keeps it for life, and passes it on.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.Isaiah 40:8
John Knox and Wee Jock · The Word handed down
Rooted in
Bible
Scripture itself, learned by heart.
Theology
Plain truths about who God is and what he has done.
History
True people and places of the Scottish Reformation.
Soli Deo Gloria
Made for the glory of God alone.
The cast
A cloud of witnesses.
Covenanter is peopled by the men of the Scottish Reformation, known and unknown. Choose a portrait to meet them.
John Knox
Reformer and minister of St Giles’
Returned to Scotland from Geneva in 1559 and preached the Reformation from Perth to Edinburgh. Minister of St Giles’ and one of the six who drafted the Scots Confession.
One of the six JohnsThe six Johns
Six ministers who drafted the Scots Confession in four days, 1560.
Reformers and friends
Preachers, patrons and translators of the Word.
In Dundee
Two you meet at the harbour and the square.
The name
Why it is called Covenanter.
Covenanter is named for the First Band, the covenant that the first Lords of the Congregation signed at Edinburgh on 3 December 1557. They promised before God to maintain and establish his Word.
The game follows God’s promises as they were worked out in Scotland through faithful men. Some are known by name, like John Knox and John Erskine of Dun. Most are known only to God.
The Scholar is one of these: a young man in a long coat and flat cap, standing for the countless faithful who laboured to see the Word of God established in the kirks and burghs.
If God permit, the first of many Covenanter stories.
Edinburgh · 3 December 1557
The First Band
…we do promise before the Majesty of God and his Congregation, that we (by his grace) shall with all diligence continually apply our whole power, substance, and our very lives, to maintain, set forward, and establish the most blessed Word of God and his Congregation…
Among those who signed: the Earls of Argyll, Glencairn and Morton, and John Erskine of Dun.
From John Knox’s History of the Reformation in Scotland, lightly modernised.
Unknown
Of whom the world was not worthy.
Beside the Reformers whose names we know stood countless faithful men whose names are lost to history but written in heaven. They taught their households, sang the psalms and held fast to the Word. The world forgot them; their Lord did not. To each he says, Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Matthew 25:21
Scholar
A tale of the Scottish Reformation
Covenanter
Post tenebras lux · Light after darkness
You come home from Geneva in May 1559. Walk the towns of Scotland, hear the Reformers preach, and answer false teaching with Scripture. Everything you learn is kept in your Commonplace Book.
No ads and no loot boxes. A game to play together.
Closed beta · Saturday 31 October
Be among the first to play.
The Covenanter closed beta opens on Reformation Day, Saturday 31 October, on iOS and Android. Places are limited, so we choose testers at random from everyone who asks. If you are chosen, your invite comes by email.
Request a place
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We choose testers at random from everyone who asks. Invites go out by email from Saturday 31 October.
Play together
If you are chosen, install Covenanter on iPhone, iPad or Android, then tell us what your children learn, what they love, and what we can make better.
Try it
Answer with the Word.
In Covenanter a friar makes his claim in the square and the crowd waits. You answer with the Truth and the verse that meets it. This is the first level: choose the verse that answers the claim.
The Holy Father keeps the treasury of the saints’ merits. For four shillings this pardon looses your sins, and their goodness is reckoned to you.
Which verse answers him?
For children
Grows with the child.
Five levels of difficulty, from about age 5 to 13 and up. A child can begin with a choice of three and finish by writing the verse from memory.
Easiest
about 5 to 7Choose the right verse from three. One answers the claim, and two do not.
Easy
about 7 to 9Choose the Truth from four, then the verse from four: one answers best, one answers in part, and two do not.
Normal
about 9 to 11Choose from every Truth and every verse you have gathered.
Hard
about 11 to 13Choose the Truth and the reference, then set the words of the verse in order.
Expert
13 and upChoose the Truth and the reference, then write the verse out from memory.
Burning, yet not consumed.
Exodus 3:2
And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
The Covenanter closed beta opens on Reformation Day.
Saturday 31 October, on iOS and Android. Request a place below. Places are limited, so we choose testers at random from everyone who asks. If you are chosen, your invite comes by email.
We will write only about Covenanter, and you can leave the list from any email.