A Nowruz game about the last hours of the year
The old year is running out and the table is already set. Send two photographs and we draw them making it home before the turn.
The story it tells
The old year is nearly over.
The table is laid at home,
The fish is in the bowl,
And Sam has minutes to get there.
Sam and Alex stand in for the names you give us.
The Nowruz game is the end of one year told as ten levels. The road runs out of daylight, the table is waiting, and every level takes a little more of the old year with it. Their name is on the title screen, the music is a Nowruz tune, and the finish opens on the room where everyone is sitting.
Any of the seven worlds can tell it, and you pick the art style and the clothes yourself.
What waits at the finish
Then the year that just ended comes back as pictures. Each photograph you sent is shown in a Nowruz frame with a line of your own words, in the order you chose, then your video, then the last thing you wanted to say. With the complete game they move a little before they settle, so the table and the faces around it are not quite still.
The prizes, and what is written under them
- The first one A day from the year that is ending.
- And this one The people round the table.
- And this Somewhere the year was kind to you.
- One more Because a year is longer than three pictures.
- And the last The first hour of the new one.
And then the last word
Happy Nowruz, Sam
A green year, a full table,
And everyone you love around it.
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.
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.
What a Nowruz game costs
- One game One game, with three of your photographs as the prizes and your own song at the end. $25
- One game, everything inOur suggestion One game, with three of your photographs as the prizes, your own song at the end, the pictures brought to life, your video and a second character. $32
- Three games Three games, with everything above in each of them. $55
- Five games Five games, with everything above in each of them. $85
Extras never add more than $40 to a game, however many photographs and videos you send.
