A retirement game about the last shift
The last shift, and then the rest of it. Send two photographs and we draw them as the hero of a game that finishes the day for good.
The story it tells
It is the last day.
Forty years of early mornings
End at the far side of this one,
And Sam is nearly there.
Sam and Alex stand in for the names you give us.
The retirement game is one more day of it, told as ten levels, and then no more days of it. The work is the same work, the road is the one they have walked for years, and the last level is the one where they put it down. Their name is on the title screen, and the people at the finish are all there for them.
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 whole of it. Every photograph you sent comes out in a retirement frame with a line of your own words under it, in the order you chose, then your video, then the last word. On the complete game the pictures come to life for a few seconds, which is worth doing to a photograph taken thirty years ago.
The prizes, and what is written under them
- The early days Before any of us knew what we were doing.
- The middle The years that actually built something.
- The last day Everyone who came to say goodbye.
- One more Because forty years does not fit in three pictures.
- And the last Whatever comes next. you have earned all of it.
And then the last word
Happy retirement, Sam
You gave them your best years.
These ones are yours.
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 retirement 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.
