Adventist Church Celebrates as Heroes: The Bible Trivia Recreation Reaches Half a Million Downloads

The Adventist Church celebrated a major digital milestone on March 22, 2023, as its fashionable gaming app, Heroes: The Bible Trivia Recreation, reached its 500,000th obtain. This achievement highlights the app’s rising reputation amongst international customers, who’ve spent over 18 million minutes enjoying the sport and have answered over 45 million trivia questions.

In simply two years since its launch, Heroes has turn into a favourite amongst avid gamers and biblical students. By way of its difficult questions and fascinating gameplay, the app celebrates biblical heroes, making it a wonderful device for educating gamers on the tales and teachings of the Bible.

Williams Costa Jr., director of the Adventist Church’s Communication division, expressed pleasure on the milestone, saying “It’s at all times thrilling to see goals come true. The marvel is that half 1,000,000 downloads of Heroes is just not an finish however an enormous step in the direction of persevering with.”

The biblical question-and-answer software developed by Hope Channel and designed by Pastor Sam Neves, affiliate director of the Adventist World Church’s Communication division, has additionally turn into fashionable for its academic studying functions. Neves explains that “Heroes has an academic worth of biblical immersion. The participant follows a sequence of play and studying whereas enjoying, so he is aware of the biblical story with out essentially having to learn it.”

App Milestones

Because the Adventist Church prepares to rejoice Heroes’ second anniversary on March 25, 2023, the app’s creators spotlight the app’s quite a few achievements.

In June 2022, Heroes partnered with the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. The museum offered an area for Heroes to advertise the app and offered alternatives for guests to play the sport and study extra concerning the app. 

Since its launch in 2021, Heroes has additionally collaborated with Hope Channel, and with Novo Tempo in Brazil. In 2022, Heroes additionally promoted a web-based match in Brazil during which app gamers gathered to compete for the potential for enjoying in particular person on the television present’s particular version that includes Heroes “Bom de Bíbla” on TV Novo Tempo. 

The success of Heroes can also be mirrored in its web site’s reputation, with over 100,000 web page views final month alone. In almost two years, the app has turn into obtainable in nearly 15 languages, throughout the Hope Channel Community, together with English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Swahili, and Tagalog. Reaching the event targets app creators proposed on the launch of Heroes in 2021 made it attainable for the sport to turn into accessible to extra customers worldwide. 

Recreation Information and Releases

Within the final two years, Heroes additionally developed “The Massive Questions,” a Bible research information that includes 20 classes obtainable in English, Portuguese, French, Romanian, and Spanish. Its essential goal is to reply frequent religious questions searched by many customers on the web. In 2022, “The Massive Questions” launched its second model in English and Portuguese with 21 new classes.

On December 24, 2022, app creators added Mary, the mom of Jesus, to the sport. Thus, totaling 13 Bible heroes.

Digital platforms had been additionally elementary for selling the sport. Heroes’ social media platforms printed content material centered on in-depth data of the heroes, and offered customized exchanges with the gamers. Presently, Heroes has over 37,000 followers who each day obtain content material particularly developed to supply gamers a extra full expertise.

Projections for the Future

Because the app’s growth staff envisions the way forward for the sport, they search to make the sport extra interactive and embrace new questions and new heroes.

Created with the intention of sharing the Three Angels’ Message with avid gamers and younger individuals all over the world, Neves mentioned, “Heroes was born, to encourage [young people] to familiarize themselves with the fascinating tales of the Bible, and to find they’re known as to be God’s heroes at this time, to turn into Christ’s witnesses.”

Heroes could be downloaded without spending a dime on any Apple or Android smartphone gadget. For extra details about Heroes, go to https://www.heroesbibletrivia.org/.