Families and players
Play free today. The Tier 1 missions are made for doing together at home.
Play nowA story game from Kerala, for ages 10 to 15
Live another life. Bring something back.
In GrandCraft you become someone else: a tea-shop helper, a ferry conductor, a girl born in 1955. Solve their problems, make their choices, then try one small thing in your own life.
Works on any phone. English and Malayalam. No ads, no purchases, no sign-up.
Pick a Life
Each Life is a story you play as one of its people. Pause one and start another; every Life waits where you left it.
How a Life plays
Step in
Choose a Life and how much help you want: gentle, standard or stretch.
Play it
Riddles, investigations, quizzes, hard choices, and opinion questions where nobody is wrong.
Do it for real
Each chapter ends with a small real-life mission. Do it with your family, or play the in-game version for the same reward.
Keep it
Blessings, Wisdom Cards and coins go into your Passport, private to you.
Real life is the last level
Missions are tiered by safety. Children reach the higher tiers only through registered adults, and no mission ever needs photos, a location or contact with strangers.
- 0
On your own
Plan a kindness, practise a skill, write the story you would tell.
- 1
With your own family
Ask a grandparent about a dish, plan a trip together. A parent confirms with one tap.
- 2
In a supervised group
Team challenges at school or at a registered GrandCraft Edition, confirmed by a teacher or organiser.
- 3
In the community
Visits and service with older people, only in approved Editions with trained organisers.
Your Passport
Everything you earn is kept in your Passport. Each kind of record means one thing, never turns into another, and can never be bought.
In the game today
- Coins, earned by playing and spent only on looks
- Virtual Blessings for story milestones
- Wisdom Cards to collect
- My missions, planned or done
With family accounts, from 2027
- Verified Real Blessings, confirmed by an adult
- Edition Quest Points
- TimeBank hours for older teens and adults
- Signed certificates anyone can verify
Edition leaderboards
When schools and community groups run official GrandCraft Editions, teams earn Quest Points in fair, published challenges. Team results appear here.
TeamEditionQuest Points
The first results arrive after the Kochi pilot in January 2027.
We rank teams within Editions. We never rank children on kindness or character.
Join in
Schools, NGOs and Vayomithram units
Run a one- or two-day GrandCraft Edition with your students or members. The first Editions run in Kochi in January 2027.
Register interestOlder adults and storytellers
Help us write the next Lives. Your stories, your voice, on your terms.
Co-write a LifeOur promise to parents
GrandCraft is built by an NGO for children's wellbeing, not for screen time.
- No ads, and nothing to buy.
- No chat with strangers.
- No photos or location needed, ever.
- Progress stays on the phone until a parent links an account.
- A break reminder after 20 minutes, and a rest notice at night.
- Older people appear as partners with their own views, never as props.
Register your interest
For parents, schools, organisations, older adults and partners. We reply from contact@playgrandcraft.com.
Who makes GrandCraft
GrandCraft is developed by CEDAC, the Center of Excellence for Developing Age-Friendly Communities, a division of MAGICS NGO in Kochi, Kerala. It grows out of The Blessing Trail, our school programme that brings young people and older people together.
GrandCraft is a prototype. Its stories and features are being tested with children and older adults, and the first public pilot runs in Kochi in January 2027.
Write to us: contact@playgrandcraft.com