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Downpour is a new app that turns your photos into games
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I didn’t share the bingo cards with everyone, but they were a small, silly way to let off steam and commiserate with like-minded victims enduring hours-long reunion dinners and polite family visits with very difficult people. This year, I was armed with something far superior: I made a (fictional) choose-your-own-adventure game in Downpour called Dragon Me To Hell that involved communing with my grandmother’s late dog, possibly committing a small crime, and escaping to our freedom. I spent time during family visits taking pictures and putting together a mini-review gallery; this took around 30-ish minutes of dragging and dropping photos, typing blurbs, and linking pages together via interactive boxes.
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