Smooch is live on the App Store 🥹

It started in January. My partner and I were planning trips for March and May, and suddenly realised we’d forgotten a movie we wanted to watch and a new Korean place we wanted to try. Big plans: fine. Small ones: gone.

So I built us a shared space for all those “we should try this someday” ideas. You save them together, drag one onto a day, and it becomes an actual plan.

I made it on my own: product, design, the build with Lovable, the website and the blog - Framer. 60 builds, a few App Store rejections, and one timezone bug that sent us to squash at 2am instead of 2pm xD

And there are no photos inside, just Smooches characters. Because who calls their person by their actual name anyway? (or it's just me there, huh)

The whole story is in the case study 🦄

That furry hand holding the phone is a scroll-stopper. These characters would be so fun animated, even just a little wiggle when a wish turns into a plan. Huge congrats on the launch.

Night Quota – a Halloween game about my hometown Monsters work one night a year. In Kharkiv, that night ends at 11 p.m. Not because of monsters. Because of the curfew.

Pick one of four monsters, walk the streets, scare people, knock on doors, and hit your quota before dawn. After eleven the streets empty and the job gets harder.

I’m from Kharkiv and I miss it, so I rebuilt it as a game. 18 districts, each started from my own photo of a real street and drawn as a constructivist poster, the style the city is known for. Every district has a local with a story about Kharkiv. The passers-by are people I love: my friends, my daughter as a little witch, and my cat Lisa, who hides in every district.

Features used: Rive CLI + GPU Canvas (both), Scripting, Data Binding, State Machines.

How it’s made • Rive CLI + Claude Code: I’m a designer, not a game developer. I described the game, the agent wrote it, I watched the live preview and corrected it. • RML for the scenes, Luau scripting for the logic: the night clock, the districts, the scares, the dialogues. • GPU Canvas: one WGSL shader over the whole game. Curfew frame, searchlights, air-raid flash, a camera shutter for cat photos, the dawn report developing out of a halftone raster. • Data Binding drives the HUD, State Machines run the buttons. • Rive Editor to play it and check every screen. • Higgsfield for character art, from my own references and photos.

Play it on desktop, with a keyboard and mouse. Give it about 20 seconds to load, the whole city is in there.

The combination of clawed hands and the friendly priest is awesome! 😂🔥