THE GAME GIFT

A graduation game about the last stretch

The hard part is behind them. Send two photographs and we draw them running the last of it, in the art style and the clothes you choose.

The picture the shop draws graduation games around.

The story it tells

The years are done.

The exams are done.

The hall is full and waiting

And Sam is still running.

Sam and Alex stand in for the names you give us.

The graduation game is the final push, told as ten levels that get harder and then, near the end, stop being hard at all. The people who watched them do it are already cheering at the finish. Their name is on the title screen, and the last level opens on the moment everyone has been waiting for.

Any of the seven worlds can tell it, and you pick the art style and the clothes yourself.

What waits at the finish

The prizes are the years it took. Your photographs come out in a graduation frame, one at a time, each with a line you wrote underneath, then your video, then the thing you wanted to say and could not fit in a card. On the complete game the pictures come to life for a few seconds before they settle back into stills.

A prize photograph from a sample game, brought to life for a few seconds inside a gilded frame. The frame the prizes come out in for a graduation game.
An example from the winter birthday demo, and the frame this occasion uses. The people in our sample games are invented.

The prizes, and what is written under them

  1. The first year Before you knew what you were in for.
  2. The middle The part where it got hard and you stayed.
  3. The end The day it was finally over.
  4. One more The people who got you through it.
  5. And the last The one they will put on the wall.

And then the last word

Congratulations, Sam

You did the work.

Nobody can take this one off you.

These are the words we start from. You write your own captions, your own closing message, and choose which photograph comes last.

Add a gift card

You can slip a gift card into the game as well. On the extras step you say what kind of card it is, where it is used, the amount if you want it shown, and the code from the card you bought, with a line of your own to go with it. It comes out after the photographs, in a sealed envelope the player opens, and the code is written on the card inside. Any card from any shop works, because you tell us which. The code itself is never put in the game: it stays on our website, and the game asks for it at the moment the envelope is opened, so a copy of the game gives nothing away. It adds nothing to the price.

The gift card stage of a sample game: a sealed envelope with a gold ribbon and wax seal, with a small tag naming the card and the amount.
ClosedThe envelope as it arrives, after the photographs, in our castle birthday sample game.
The same envelope opened: the card slid out, with the kind of card, the amount, a sample code and the buyer's note written on it.
OpenedThe card with its words on it. The code here is a sample; the sample games are made for invented people.

Three sample games to watch

Any world tells any occasion, so these are only three of the seven. All three are sample games made for invented people.

The Long Castle
The Long Way Home
Tennis Club

Look at all seven worlds

What a graduation game costs

Extras never add more than $40 to a game, however many photographs and videos you send.

Other occasions

All fourteen occasions