This Mother’s Day, turn your grandparents into the hero they already are. Your grandparents have photo albums older than the internet. Give them something new to show off at bridge club: a game starring themselves.
Our pick: flappy flyer with the Mother’s & Father’s Day theme. Your grandparents dodge chores and laundry piles, grab tea and socks and flowers, and the game finishes with a slow dance 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
Perfect for the group chat: easy to play, easy to share, impossible to stop.
Sample lines
Idea 2
The soppy one. Milestones from their story appear as they climb, with someone special waiting at the top.
Sample lines
Idea 3
For when your grandparents deserve a full hero’s journey: coins, power-ups and a boss fight.
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 Mother’s & Father’s Day 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.
Mothering Sunday falls three weeks before Easter Sunday, usually in March. The app suggests the theme in the run-up.
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.
Yes, with a grown-up. An adult (13+) creates the account, and the kids can help choose the game, jokes and ending.
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.