Bonfire Night is cold, damp and smells of sparklers. Warm things up with a game starring your grandparents. Nan and Grandad say they don’t “do” games. They have never been offered one about themselves.
Our pick: flappy flyer with the Bonfire Night theme. Your grandparents dodge stray rockets, grab sparklers and toffee apples, and the game finishes with a group hug ending carrying your own message. Every line is pre-written and funny out of the box, and you can change any of it.
Idea 1
The quickest way to get your grandparents hooked. Simple, silly and dangerously “just one more go”.
Sample lines
Idea 2
A gentle, heartfelt climb through the years. Bring tissues for the ending.
Sample lines
Idea 3
Chaotic, colourful and great for competitive types. Waves of baddies, then a boss who looks suspiciously familiar.
Sample lines
Put both grandparents in as playable characters and the grandchildren as the family waiting at the top.
Pick a game style and the Bonfire Night theme in the app, play it free with demo characters, then upload a photo of your grandparents to turn them into cartoon characters. Name the game, pick a link like yourname.become.games and send it. It takes about five minutes.
Yes. The ending message is fully editable, so the finale can say “Happy Bonfire Night, love from all of us” or anything else you like.
Usually, yes. It opens straight from a link or QR code, the flappy game is a single tap and the story climber just needs holding one side of the screen or the other (it jumps by itself). There’s nothing to install and no sign-up for players.
Bonfire Night is very British, but the game plays anywhere in the world in any modern browser.
Making, playing and publishing games is free. To turn your own photos into characters you need a plan: £3.49 a month (2 characters in month one) or £19.99 a year (10 characters up front). Plans also unlock custom game links. Cancel any time.
Free to build and play. Turn your people into characters when you’re happy with it.