Every August bank holiday, Reading turns into a field of tents, wellies and very tired music fans. The rest of the year it's a busy Thames-side town with an abbey where a king is buried.
It’s a link, so it works on any device, anywhere, with no download. Choose a game style and a look (the Postcard look has chip-thieving seagulls and runaway suitcases), type “Reading”, write a line about Reading Abbey Ruins or Reading Festival, and it’s ready to send before your tea goes cold.
Three days of bands, mud and questionable tent pitching. Send a game home so your mum knows you're alive and mostly dry.
Reading is packed with tech and business offices. Send the team back home a game about your thrilling day of meetings.
A leafy campus, a busy town and a festival on the doorstep. Send home a game starring you instead of a one word text.
Idea 1
Waves of bouncers, shots and exes capture the chaos of a big festival weekend with your mates.
Put this in
“Day three of the festival. My wellies have become part of my personality.”
Idea 2
Commuter towns run on the dash for the fast train, so an endless runner past meetings and printers feels very familiar.
Put this in
“Fast train to London, slow walk to my desk.”
Idea 3
A climber with milestones suits a student's journey, with exam papers to dodge and a diploma at the top.
Put this in
“Yes, I studied in Reading. No, it wasn't just reading.”
Ending messages to steal
Landmarks to name-drop
The game shows the place name and your message, not these landmarks: the Postcard look’s far-off silhouettes are generic. Your words do the sightseeing.
Free to build and play with our demo characters. To send it, star your own people (drawn from a photo with a plan); publishing and the link are free. See pricing or read how it works.
No. The game is titled “Greetings from Reading” and ends with a postcard showing the place name in big retro letters and your message, but it doesn’t draw Reading Abbey Ruins. The Postcard look has far-off landmark silhouettes, but they’re generic, not Reading’s. That’s what your jokes and message are for: mention Reading Abbey Ruins in a line and they’ll picture it.
Keep it short and specific: one place, one moment, one sign-off. For example: “Survived Reading Festival! Lost my voice, a tent peg and one welly. Best weekend ever.”
Yes. Build and try it free with demo characters, then upload a photo to turn yourself (and whoever you’re with) into cartoon characters, which needs a plan. Everyone in the photo must agree, and the photo is deleted once the characters are made.
Making, playing and publishing it is free, and every published game gets its own permanent link. To turn your own photos into cartoon characters, or to give the game a custom link like yourname.become.games, you need a plan: £3.49 a month or £19.99 a year. Cancel any time.
Pick the Postcard occasion, type where it’s from, write the message on the back and share the link. It plays on any device, no download.