THE GAME GIFT

A game where they are the hero.

Send two photographs. We draw the person you love as the hero of a platform game they can play in the browser, and their own pictures come out at the end as the prizes.

Order your game Play a sample game

That is Isla's own game, playing itself. Touch it and you take over: one tap jumps. Isla is an invented person, drawn for a new home in the 3D film style by the same pipeline that will draw yours.

Isla holding a phone, with the sample game running on its screen.

How you will be drawn

Nine faces the factory has already drawn, in five of the 33 art styles. Every one of them is an invented person, made by the same pipeline that will draw the photographs you send.

Rowan, drawn in the fantasy hero style Rowan fantasy hero, The Long Castle Nadia, drawn in the faithful cartoon style Nadia faithful cartoon, Classic Platformer Leo, drawn in the faithful cartoon style Leo faithful cartoon, Classic Platformer Mina, drawn in the faithful cartoon style Mina faithful cartoon, Jungle Trail Daniel, drawn in the faithful cartoon style Daniel faithful cartoon, Tennis Club Sofia, drawn in the faithful cartoon style Sofia faithful cartoon, Jungle Trail Tomas, drawn in the painterly cartoon style Tomas painterly cartoon, Snow Peak Rei, drawn in the anime style Rei anime, The Long Night Isla, drawn in the 3D film style Isla 3D film, The Long Way Home

Your person keeps their own face, hair and build. What changes is the style you pick. See all 33 art styles

9 games you can play right now

Every one of these was built by the factory for an invented person, in the world and the occasion named under it. They are the same games we would build for you.

Seven worlds so far, and the games keep their surprises after the first level. Look through the worlds

Made for the occasion

The occasion changes the story, the gate the hero runs to, the words on the way and the message that closes the game. Pick one of these fourteen, or none at all.

Birthday Wedding Valentine's Day Mother's Day Father's Day Anniversary Graduation New baby New home Retirement Get well Christmas Nowruz Casual gift

The prizes are your own photographs

Every picture the hero collects on the way is one of the photographs you send. When the game is won they hang in a gallery in gilded frames, one at a time, in the frame the occasion chose, and the person playing walks through them.

On the complete game the photographs can be brought to life, so a still portrait breathes, blinks and turns for a few seconds before it settles. After the gallery comes your video, and then the message you wrote.

Both moving pictures here are endings from the demo games, not from a customer.

A prize photograph from a demo game, brought to life for a few seconds inside its frame.
Sofia's wedding game, in the jungle world
A prize photograph from a demo game, brought to life for a few seconds inside its frame.
Tomas's birthday game, up on Snow Peak

Pick the look and the clothes

Each style is shown on a man and a woman, drawn from the same photographs every time, so what changes from one picture to the next is the drawing. Your person is drawn the same way, then dressed for the occasion.

A woman drawn in the faithful cartoon style A man drawn in the faithful cartoon style Faithful cartoon The classic look: clean lines, soft shading, your face kept true. A woman drawn in the semi-realistic style A man drawn in the semi-realistic style Semi-realistic Almost a painting of you, with simplified clothes. A woman drawn in the anime style A man drawn in the anime style Anime Clean line art and cel shading in the Japanese style. A woman drawn in the comic book style A man drawn in the comic book style Comic book Confident black ink lines and flat colour, like a comic panel. A woman drawn in the pixel art style A man drawn in the pixel art style Pixel art A 16-bit sprite, the way the classics looked. A woman drawn in the chunky mascot style A man drawn in the chunky mascot style Chunky mascot Big head, short body, big personality. Reads well when small. A woman drawn in the arcade box art style A man drawn in the arcade box art style Arcade box art Painted like a 1990s arcade cabinet, airbrushed and bold. A woman drawn in the storybook style A man drawn in the storybook style Storybook Soft watercolour, like a children's picture book.

Eight of 33. See every art style

And what they wear

The wizard suggests the clothes that suit the occasion and the world, with everything else still underneath.

Classic dark suit Classic dark suit T-shirt and jeans T-shirt and jeans Running kit Running kit Classic white gown Classic white gown Shirt and jeans Shirt and jeans Gym Gym

Look through the outfits

What customers will say

The shop has not shipped to the public yet, so there is nothing real to quote. These three are written by us to show the shape of the thing, and they are labelled on every card.

Sample
She played it at the table with everyone watching, and when the gallery opened on the photograph from our first holiday the room went quiet.
A birthday game, written as an example
Sample
I sent two photographs on Tuesday and had the link on Wednesday. He has beaten it four times and keeps showing people the ending.
A wedding game, written as an example
Sample
The best part was watching him work out that the little pictures he was collecting were our own.
A Father's Day game, written as an example

Sample reviews. Real ones appear here as games ship.

What it costs

One price for one game. Everything a game can do is listed here, so nothing is discovered at the till.

One game
$25
  • One game, drawn from your own photographs
  • Ten levels, the surprises after the first
  • Plays in the browser on any device, and adds to your phone as an app
  • Three of your photos as prizes, and your own song at the end
Our suggestion
One game, everything in
$32
  • Everything above
  • Windows and Mac downloads
  • Hand control with your webcam
  • A second character, and your own video at the finish
  • Your pictures brought to life at the ending
Three games
$55
  • Three games, with everything above in each one
  • Made whenever you like: three people, three occasions, or the same person three times
  • Windows and Mac downloads
Five games
$85
  • Five games, with everything above in each one
  • Enough for a year of birthdays, kept until you want them
  • Windows and Mac downloads

Extras never add more than $40 to a game. What each one adds, more photographs, bringing them to life, your own video, a second character, is shown and priced as you choose it. These are the launch prices and can change before launch.

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