A pixel-art adventure through the life of the Apostle Paul, from a Jewish boyhood in Tarsus to the road to Damascus and beyond.
PLAY THE GAMEWHAT IS PAUL?
Paul is a story game that follows the life of Saul of Tarsus: his early years, young adulthood, conversion, missionary journeys, imprisonments, shipwrecks and death. Along the way, players learn about Judaism, the life of Jesus, the history of the early Church and the theology of Paul.
You don't just read about Paul. You live his days: setting the Passover table with his mother, saying the Shema with his father, unrolling the scroll of Moses at the synagogue school, stitching tents in the workshop and teaching in Jerusalem. Every choice and mini-game shapes three scores that rise and fall as his story turns.
DENARII
Money from tentmaking and, later, from those who back his cause.
KNOWLEDGE
What he learns of the Law and the Scriptures, and how that knowledge is later transformed.
POPULARITY
The approval of the people around him, won and lost as his life changes course.
THE JOURNEY
Paul's life unfolds in four acts. The first is ready to play now.
EARLY YEARS
A Jewish boy in Tarsus prepares for Passover, learns the Scriptures and grows up to study under Gamaliel in Jerusalem.
PERSECUTION
Rumours of a man called Jesus, the stoning of Stephen, and Saul's zeal turned against the young Church.
CONVERSION
The road to Damascus. A blinding light, a question ("Lord, who are you?"), and the Scriptures read anew.
THE APOSTLE
Journeys, letters, prisons and shipwrecks. Paul loses the approval he once had and gains something greater.
INSIDE CHAPTER I
WHY MAKE THIS?
To tell one of history's most dramatic turnarounds in a way you can play, and to take its world seriously.
Paul's letters shaped the Christian faith, but he began as a devout Jewish boy who kept the Law, said the Shema and prayed with his family at Passover. The game starts there, with care for the history: the customs of a first-century Jewish home, the rules for leaven on the day before Passover, the Roman city around it.
The verses young Saul memorises in Chapter I come back after his conversion, when he sees them in a new light. The hope is that players come away knowing the story, and a little more curious about the One Paul spent his life searching for.
VERSES SAUL LEARNS AS A BOY
- "In you shall all families of the earth be blessed."GENESIS 12:3
- "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…"ISAIAH 9:6
- "They pierced my hands and my feet."PSALM 22:16
MADE BY VITOR MORENO
- WRITER
- DESIGNER
- COMPOSER
- NARRATOR
Hi, I'm Vitor. I created Paul: The Game, wrote its story, composed its music and voiced its narrator.
I'm a student at the University of British Columbia and the Media Director at Richmond Baptist Church, where I've worked with video, design and sound since 2023. This project brings those passions together with a love for the Bible and the history behind it.
READY TO BEGIN?
Tarsus, around AD 10. It is the morning before Passover, and a boy named Saul has errands to run.
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