Send your mum a summer game full of thieving seagulls and melting ice cream. Suncream not included. Your mum has kept every wonky drawing you ever made. Time to upgrade: make her the hero of an actual video game.
Our pick: flappy flyer with the Summer theme. Your mum dodges seagulls and sunburn, grabs ice cream and beach balls, and the game finishes with a cake smash 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
Proper retro adventure energy, with your mum stomping baddies on the way to the boss.
Sample lines
Idea 3
Turns memories into levels. Add years and captions for the big moments (cartoon memory scenes coming soon).
Sample lines
Make Mum the hero and put the rest of the family along the way as cheering (or chore-dodging) cameos.
Pick a game style and the Summer theme in the app, play it free with demo characters, then upload a photo of your mum to turn her into a cartoon character. Name the game, pick a link like yourname.become.games and send it. It takes about five minutes.
Yes. Once a game has been opened, it works offline, so it’s great for planes, trains and campsites.
Yes. She just taps the link. There’s nothing to install or sign up for, and the flappy game uses a single tap. You can also print the QR code in a card so she can scan it with her phone camera.
It’s a lovely “thinking of you” for anyone you’re apart from over summer, and it keeps kids busy in the car.
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.