Academics
RelicForge
Be the archaeologist (ages 9–14): a real Roman game stone, from the late Roman period (roughly AD 250–476), survived, but nobody wrote its rules down. Build a rule set from bricks, run the wear simulation, and see how plausibly your reconstruction fits the real worn lines — a hypothesis-under-uncertainty lesson. On-device — no account, no AI, no data leaves your device.
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Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.
Mentored by Vallis
#a56a2e Characters who teach
Meet the cast
RelicForge's dig crew (ages 9–14): 5 guides, each EMBODYING one step of how archaeologists reason about the past — read the wear, build a rule set, simulate it, score the fit, stay honest (the character IS the idea). Mentor = Vallis, the museum archaeologist who reads the stone with you. Illustrated portraits and chapters are on the way.
Coria the Reader
reads the worn lines — a stone rubs smooth where the pieces travelled, so wear IS the evidence
Brickwright
builds a game from swappable rule-bricks — change one brick, change the game to test
Playra
Play it out — plays the rules hundreds of times so the board slowly wears, just like the real one did
Plausa
Plausible — weighs how well the simulated wear matches the real stone
Cavea
Plausible is not proven — keeps everyone honest: the search always finds SOME rules
What's inside
Learning goal
Be the archaeologist (ages 9–14): a real Roman game stone, from the late Roman period (roughly AD 250–476), survived, but nobody wrote its rules down. Build a rule set from bricks, run the wear simulation, and see how plausibly your reconstruction fits the real worn lines — a hypothesis-under-uncertainty lesson. On-device — no account, no AI, no data leaves your device.
Mentored by Vallis — no data leaves the device.
How RelicForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages