Cards get binned. Chocolates get eaten. A Valentine’s game starring your mum gets played over and over. 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 Valentine’s Day theme. Your mum dodges broken hearts and cupid misfires, grabs hearts and roses, 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
The soppy one. Milestones from her story appear as she climbs, with someone special waiting at the top.
Sample lines
Idea 3
For when your mum deserves a full hero’s journey: coins, power-ups and a boss fight.
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 Valentine’s Day 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. Nothing is sent to your mum until you share the link yourself, by WhatsApp, text, email or a QR code in a card.
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.
Yes. Editing and re-theming a game is free and instant, even after you’ve shared it. The link stays the same.
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.