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What if the map wasn't a utility but the entire game world?
That was the core decision on SideQuest.
A location-based social app. But not the usual: no flat pins, no generic list views, no "events near you" cards buried in a feed.
The brief was real-world gamification. Playful. Spatial. But actually functional.
So I built a 3D isometric city as the home screen. Streets become quest zones. Every pin has a mission type: Challenge, Workout, Live, Events, or Player. Movement earns XP worth chasing.
One map. Infinite reasons to step outside. That's the whole app in one screen.
Five activity types. No boring filter tabs. All experiences live together: 5K Morning Run, Sunset Rooftop Meetup, and Live Now, each with XP rewards, coin drops, and real people going.
Sky-blue world, floating 3D buildings, animated pulse rings as intentional depth not decoration, core interaction design.
Would you have kept the map flat or built the whole world in 3D?
Amazing one
Modern, clean, and well thought out.
Professionalism at its finest.
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Stunning!
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You've really done so well. Great Job mate
Packing the next case study - which opener actually makes you stop? 👇
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both are stunning but the grid is cleannnnn
Friends, I haven’t announced this properly yet, but I can’t keep quiet anymore
𝐌𝐲 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐛𝐛𝐥𝐞’𝐬 𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫😭❤️
Accepting congratulations 💃
And sharing a bit of our experience in this post.
𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?
✔️ We posted 2–4 works per week. So behind this result are 5 years of consistency.
✔️ Thanks to regular posting, we grew to around 100,000 followers across all our accounts.
🤣 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐥𝐢𝐩 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞:
So far, Dribbble hasn’t brought us a single client.
We do get inquiries from there, but so far, none of them have been from clients with the budgets we usually work with.
Let’s see what happens next.
Also, I’ll be happy to answer your questions about growing on Dribbble, if you have any.
By the way, this case shows me that the phrase “where there is focus, there is result” is not entirely true. Because Dribbble wasn’t our daily focus throughout these 5 years.
I’ll unpack this in the next post.
Congratulations 👍
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