How to put your friends' faces on the aliens

It takes about a minute. Pick a picture, the game finds the faces in it, you give them names — and from then on they are the invaders.

The whole flow

  1. Open the Invader Studio

    From the main menu, tap Studio. Every face in the game is added, named and removed from this one screen.

  2. Tap "Add from Photos"

    The system photo picker opens. You can choose up to four pictures at a time. This is Apple's own picker running outside the game, which is why iOS never asks you to grant photo access — the game has no such permission to request.

  3. Let the game find the faces

    Detection runs on your device and takes up to six faces from each picture. Each one is cropped to a square and padded outwards, so hair and chin make it inside the circle instead of being sliced off.

  4. Name each invader

    Tap a face and type a name. That name is announced before the fight when the face fronts a galaxy boss, which is the entire reason to bother naming them.

  5. Play

    Faces are cast into levels from then on, and one of them fronts the boss at the end of every galaxy. A level always casts the same face in the same slot, so your friends keep their parts.
The Invader Studio: an alien wearing the selected face, a name field, and a row of three picked faces with an add button

The Studio. Tap a face to preview it on the invader, hold to remove it.

The limits, precisely

When the library is full the game stops accepting new faces until you remove one. Removing a face also deletes the copy stored on your device.

Questions about faces

How many faces can I keep in the game?

Twelve. Since one picture can contribute up to six faces and you can pick four pictures at a time, the library fills up fast. Hold a face in the Studio to remove it and make room.

What happens if the game cannot find a face in my picture?

It falls back to a square crop from the middle of the picture and offers you that instead, so you still get an invader out of it.

Can I use a drawing or a pet instead of a person?

Yes, and that fallback is exactly why. Detection is looking for human faces, so a dog or a doodle usually falls through to the centre crop — which works fine as an invader.

How do I remove a face I added?

Press and hold it in the row of faces in the Studio. The face goes, and so does the copy of it stored on your device.

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