Isabella's Leap of Faith Game

Isabella's Leap of Faith is a faith-based jumping Bible game set in the glowing Orchards of Logos, deep in the world of Rhym. Players guide Isabella, a six-year-old red panda and the youngest of the RhymSquad, as she leaps from branch to branch gathering fyrflies to light her lost friend safely home. The mechanics stay simple. Time each jump, grab the fyrflies drifting around the Spirit Fruit, dodge the rotten fruit that slows you down. The story underneath is bigger: a small light, carried faithfully, can push back a lot of darkness. Built for ages 5 and up on the TruPlay platform, with no ads, no chatrooms, and no in-app purchases.

Isabella's star-nosed mole, Astra, wandered into the dark Forest of Words and was struck by the black goo spreading through it. Now she's lost. Isabella has exactly one plan for getting her home: the Living Lantern.

The lantern is an heirloom. King Logos gave it to Isabella's great-great-grandmother generations ago, and it has been handed down through the family ever since. Isabella believes that if she fills it with enough fyrflies, the magical fireflies that gather around the Spirit Fruit in the ancient Orchards of Logos, its glow will grow bright enough to lead Astra back through the dark.

So she goes. Alone. Into the orchards she leaps, branch to branch, scooping up fyrflies and steering clear of rotten fruit that drags her down. Most of the older characters in Rhym wave Isabella off as too little to matter. She doesn't buy it. In her heart, she's certain this is what God asked her to do.

The Narrator travels beside her, and the higher she climbs, the more he fills in the parts of the story she doesn't know yet. That Jesus is the Light of the World. That the Fruit of the Spirit grows in people who follow Him. That her grandmother once carried this same lantern on a mission everyone in Rhym has since forgotten: bringing light into a dark forest. By the end, Isabella understands the job was never only about one lost mole. The calling is hers now, the same one her grandmother answered, to carry the light of Christ into a world that needs it.

The heart of Isabella's Leap of Faith is one promise: Jesus is the Light of the World, and even the smallest light can hold back the dark. Isabella never grows bigger or stronger throughout the game. What shifts is her grasp of where the light comes from, and what she's meant to do with it.

Theme: Light in the Darkness - A small light, carried in faith, pushes back the dark.

Jesus Is the Light of the World

Isabella's whole quest runs on light. She needs it to bring Astra home, and the fyrflies she gathers are how she carries it. The deeper truth the game hands kids is that the real Light was never something you scoop into a lantern. It's a Person. Jesus calls Himself the light of the world, and the dark forest Isabella walks into is exactly the kind of place that light was made for.

"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8:12 NIV

The Fruit of the Spirit

As Isabella journeys, the Narrator teaches her about the Fruit of the Spirit, the qualities that grow in a person who stays close to God:

• Love, joy, peace
• Patience, kindness, goodness
• Faithfulness, gentleness, self-control

It isn't a checklist to perform. It's what grows on its own when a kid keeps following Jesus, the same way fruit appears on a healthy tree.

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." - Galatians 5:22-23 NIV

Childlike Faith Counts

Everyone older than Isabella treats her like she's too young to pull this off. She's a secret genius with a high little voice, and people hear the voice before they notice the genius. The game flips that around. Her faith is small the way a child's faith is small, and that turns out to be the strength of it. She still believes things the grown-ups have quietly stopped believing, and that belief is what gets the work done.

A Calling Passed Down

Isabella's lantern came from her great-great-grandmother, along with a mission nobody in Rhym remembers anymore. Kids watch faith move through a family, skip a few generations, and find its way back. They also catch something quieter: being handed something sacred means being handed a responsibility, too.

Carrying Light to Others

She sets out to rescue one friend. She finishes the journey understanding she's part of something far larger than a rescue: she was made to be a light-bearer for a dark world. That's the call Jesus gives every believer, and the game lets kids feel both the weight and the wonder of it without a lecture attached.

Perseverance When No One Is Watching

Branch after branch, run after run, Isabella keeps leaping even when the gaps look too wide and nobody's cheering her on. She does the brave thing with no audience. Children come away with a sense that sticking to something hard and holding your ground when others doubt you is a victory of its own.

Kids know what dark feels like. A scary night. A friend who moves away. A home that's changed shape. A worry they can't name. We wanted to build a game that meets a child right in that feeling and hands them something true to hold onto.

Isabella is six. She's the smallest one in the room, the one people talk over. And she's the one who walks straight into the dark forest because she trusts that God put the mission in her heart. We built Isabella's Leap of Faith around a conviction we hold with our whole hearts: when things go dark, you don't sit and wait for it to lift. You go looking for the Light, and then you carry it to someone else. A child's faith isn't a smaller version of a grown-up's. Some days it's the bravest faith in the room.

Every leap in this game is a small act of trust. Our hope is that kids finish it knowing their faith counts, that Jesus is the Light worth following, and that they were made to shine.

"You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden." - Matthew 5:14 NIV

"In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven." - Matthew 5:16 NIV

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." - John 1:5 NIV

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these." - Mark 10:14 NIV

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up." - Galatians 6:9 NIV