Magical adventure
Amon & Amara – an Egyptian adventure is an app produced in collaboration with digital publisher Follow a Muse for the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. It tells the story of the Egyptian princess Amara, who is terribly bored. She escapes the palace and meets the worldly baker’s son Amon. He teaches her how to dodge dangerous crocodile jaws. However, one day he is caught by a giant crocodile himself. To save him, Amara must decipher secret hieroglyphs, solve riddles and find a bottle of wonder oil in a maze swarmed with scorpions.
Interactive storytelling
Throughout the story, interactive animations and game elements are fully integrated. A large portion of the games within the story are educational, such as the game where users have to decipher a hieroglyph riddle. Other games are just plain fun, like when you have to cross the crocodiles to get to the other side of the river to save Amon.
Enjoy: together or alone
Go on an adventure in the ancient Egypt using this interactive, educational adventure of baker’s son Amon and the curious princess Amara. The story has a unique relationship with the Egyptian collection of the National Museum of Antiquities. You can read the story alone, or together with your (grand)parents. Read it and record your voice to listen to it over and over again. Or let your grandpa, grandma, mother or father record it.
analog children’s book
year old ancient objects
years old and above
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