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Cultural Franchise

The world is disordered; the Iranshahri human makes it habitable —
not through conquest,
not through heroism,
but through wisdom, labor, measure, and continuity.
Order is the result of everyday work .
Civilization endures through persistence, not through conquest.

National–Historical Significance

One of the oldest games in the world was discovered through the archaeological excavations of Roman Ghirshman and his assistant Abbas Etemad Fini , along the Sialk civilizational axis in the city of Kashan , in two separate versions . One version was transferred to the Louvre Museum , and according to the British Museum website , the other version was purchased in 1991 from Mr. Saeid Mo‘atamed .

This clay-based game, famously known as the Game of 58 Holes , influenced the development of games such as Snakes and Ladders and Backgammon . Versions of this game, with later dates, were also discovered in Egypt and other regions , indicating that the two versions found in Iran are older or represent the point of origin .

Platform, Genre, Gameplay, Modes, Languages

Sialk , an Android game, is a reconstruction of the two ancient 58-hole board games .
Each player controls five pieces . By throwing four stick dice , players bring their pieces onto the board and move them toward the final space. The winner is the player who removes all of their pieces first.
The game features single-player and two-player modes. Players may choose a piece represented by a lion, horse, goat, bird, or deer , as these figures appear on the pottery remains discovered at Sialk.

The user interface is available in Persian, English, French, and Arabic . French and English are included because the two original artifacts are housed in the Louvre and the British Museum , and Arabic is included due to the game’s influence on Hounds and Jackals , which was developed in Egypt.

Intellectual and Material Ownership

Private owner, designer, and developer of the work:
Engineer Shahaboddin Habibi Khoozani (M.Sc. in Software Engineering)
-  The intellectual property (IP) of the work is non-transferable , and all material and moral rights remain exclusively with the developer from the moment of creation.

Publication in marketplaces, licensing, and executive collaborations are limited solely to restricted usage rights .

-  Periodic sponsorship is acceptable.

-  The acceptance of a non-equity investment structured as a profit-sharing arrangement is permitted, with a share of 20% up to a maximum of 30% of the project's net profit, until the investor has received a predefined cap (for example, 2 to 3 times the principal investment). This arrangement does not confer any ownership or equity rights in the project.

-  Acceptance of Non-Equity G rants is permitted.

Keywords

Board game, 58 Holes, 58 House, Kashan

Thousands of years ago, in Sialk of Kashan , people played on a clay board …

Now, you can experience the same game once again .

The second edition of the Sialk game—created to preserve the culture, identity, and national language of the land of Iran —now stands before you.