Students and/or Teachers edit in their own verses, then study the verse before unscrambling it against the clock.

Students and/or teachers can also add comments and quizzes to each verse! 

Cal & Marty CD includes a scoreboard to track individual students, encouraging them to improve their score, and giving you a tool to see which verses they've mastered.

Bonus feature: The CD also has a number of brief animated talks presented by Cal and Marty about various aspects of the Protestant Reformation.

Game Play
Students select a verse they want to study. They have 30 seconds to study it, then the verse is scrambled. Then the clock starts ticking and they have to drag the words into the correct order. When done, Cal or Marty have a few words and then a "verse comment window" and a 3 question quiz pops up. Cal & Marty are there the whole time watching you and talking to you. Here's a demo page of "Humming Marty" (demo works in Internet Explorer only).

You or your students EDIT IN THE VERSE, create the COMMENTS, and add up to a 3 question QUIZ about the verse. The game comes with several verses to get you started. Putting the verses IN the game helps with memorization, and allows you to use any translation you wish.

Marty's Amazing Innovation:   Cal & Marty's clock ticks "up".
Marty thinks that amazing because students can have as much time as they need to get the verse right. Of course, Cal and Marty are watching and will give students a lower score for a high time. But your students can always try again (which is the plan) to get a better score. If they are stuck in a verse, students can click the ASK CAL or ASK MARTY buttons which will put a key word in the correct spot. However, this too will cost them points. The STATS screen will track their progress for each verse and Cal & Marty will appear on screen to help them.

Cal & Marty have quite the sense of humor.
This is surprising given that A) this is a scripture memory game; and B) John Calvin and Martin Luther, your onscreen animated hosts, were not known for their mirth. After this CD, you'll never be able to get these two fun-loving, singing reformers out of your head. We'd like to apologize ahead of time to our German and French brothers and sisters, and all Luther-anians and Calvinistas. Our heroes in this CD have a little too much fun.

Cal & Marty appear courtesy of some Fun Technology
--TALKING CALVIN AND LUTHER HEADS make this program unique and fun to use. Cal and Marty appear on screen to encourage your students. Their eyes follow your student's mouse pointer across the screen.  They blink, they mutter, they scowl, they comment, ...and Marty has even been known to hum a few bars. Furthermore, your kids can play with Cal and Marty's heads using their mouse. (Check out teaching tips for this secret "how to" info.)

How did Cal and Marty get like this?
We animated their famous portraits with some cool British facial animation software. This is the first commercial game to use this technology. --And the effect is so fun your kids will want to do many more memory verses ~and improve their scores on those they've already played.

Special Features:

Verse Editor !!!  --type in your own verses, or better yet, let the kids do it. It is really easy. Cal & Marty comes with some famous verses already edited in, but you can change these if you like. You can type in single verses, or sets of verses to be part of a group. Students select individual verses from the group to work on. Cal & Marty's verse editor is really easy to use and versatile. Check out our teaching tips for Cal & Marty which give you some inside tips on working with verses.

We did NOT put a bunch of ready-made verses on the CD. Only some. Why? Because you'd want the verses in a different translation the moment we added our versions. Plus...it's the Editor!  Let the kids use it...it helps them memorize, and the LIKE using it.

Study Note "Editor" --add your own study notes/reflections to each verse which pop-up after the verse is unscrambled.

This is a "FIRST" for scripture memory game software.
Cal thunk it up.

Quiz "Adder" !!! --add up to 3 multiple-choice quiz questions per verse which pop up after the unscrambling.

This is yet another "FIRST" for scripture memory game software. Marty claims credit for this idea.

See a screenshot of the easy to use Verse Editor, which includes "add quiz" and "add comment" functions

STATS --see who has what scores for each verse. Cal and Marty keep track of everybody and encourage them to get even faster at unscrambling verses. Cal likes to sit in the Stats screen and heckle your students.

History --learn a little bit about who John Calvin and Martin Luther were from none other than Cal & Marty themselves. When asked, our heroes will also talk about What is the Reformation? and What is a Protestant?  Cal & Marty talk about important stuff, but they do it in an eye-ball attracting way. The 3-D animation of their facial features is really quite amazing.

And we PROMISE:  Episcopalians and Methodists will not feel left out. Cal and Marty belong to everyone in the Church. They're cool.

View screenshot from Cal & Marty's interactive History page

View a short movie showing the Cal & Marty screens (2.5mb -lower resolution)

Windows Only --95/98/Me/XP/Vista, Minimum: 266 mhz or higher, 32 mb of RAM, 6 mb videocard minimum. We recommend a minimum 300mhz, 64 mb of RAM with an 8 mb videocard minimum for better performance. (This program works great on brand new computers. It's not old, it just runs well on old computers too.) PRICING: $22 for one. $20 each for two, three or four copies. $95 Site License for five to ten computer set-up. $125 Site License for eleven to twenty computers. Contact us if you have more than 20 PCs. Need more info about the site license? Contact us. Our special Site License version permits you to copy the program from one CD to as many computers as you have paid for. What's a "site license" ?   If you order this program from us, and later want to upgrade to a site license edition within 6 months of purchase, we can do that and give you credit for your original purchase. Contact us. Order Form Questions? Call 800-678-1948 and ask for Marty Luther (or Neil), neil@sundaysoftware.com

WHO DID IT?

Cal & Marty is made by Neil MacQueen (Sunday Software) and Mike Gale (Sonsoft) --the guys who brought you Good Sam the Samaritan and Fall of Jericho.

Is This a Lutheran or Presbyterian specific CD?

No. Even though Cal = John Calvin, and Marty = Martin Luther, and even though they do tell you a little bit about themselves in the "History" section of the CD, the program is mainly a scripture memory game with them as goofy hosts. The program itself is not just for Calvinists and Lutherans.

Do you have to be able to READ to use this CD?

It helps. But surprisingly, a lot of little kids enjoy trying to unscramble simple sentences and pieces of verses (such as "The Lord is my Shepherd"). They do it by recognizing the shapes...and our goal is to help them learn the verse, not to read, so we're cool with it!   But older kids and youth, even adults, really appreciate the sophisticated technology that brings Cal and Marty to life, AND the verse editor...they love "programming" the program.

A Couple of REVIEWS:

My husband Mitch, a PCUSA minister, has always known Calvin was french, but never wanted to think about it. You have burst his little bubble. We have decided you guys must be Python fans like us! Fun game. -Leigh

Cal & Marty are a hoot! - Melissa K., Washington DC

Once again Sunday Software and Sonsoft you have exceeded our expectations. I had to immediately call my pastor to come in and see the "talking Reformers." We eagerly unscrambled verse after verse so that we could hear Martin Luther with his cool blue sunglasses (talk during the quiz). Could you make a Confirmation program starring these fellows? - Ed Ahrens, Memphis

Another great software title, Neil.--Blake Peterson, Northpark Church, Dallas

You'll be hearing from our attorneys. --The League of Lutheranians

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Cal & Marty's Technical Help and Update Page

See a screenshot of the easy to use Verse Editor

1 minute Video Demo of Cal & Marty

Hey Neil.... What happened to Wordy the Scripture Memory Game that used to be in the Sunday Software catalog? We sold Wordy for six years. It was, in its day, the only scripture memory game program with a verse editor. But Wordy was starting to look a little "old" and it had some technical bugs that would occasionally lock up a game. There were also some features we wished it had. So we decided to make our own program. Cal & Marty is easier and more fun to use than Wordy, has many more features than Wordy, and has a more modern look and feel (including animation).