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Day 3 of building a football manager game
UPDATE: Implemented offside checks, VAR replays and more
The goal? A football world with 195 countries, tactics, transfers, scouting, management & multiplayer.
Discord: https://discord.gg/9C2vKTnh4
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Spent the weekend running 3 Claude sessions in parallel on my mobile cop-chase game in Unity 🚓
One restyled the HUD, one built a garage, missions & new enemies (SWAT, tanks, a helicopter), one is making new maps.
They messaged each other to avoid clashing. Effective but it killed me 5hr limit in no time.
Changes:
• New HUD
• Garage: 7 cars, missions, levels
• Wrecked cops burst into coins
• SWAT, tanks, roadblocks, a helicopter
• Nitro, shields, magnets, EMPs
• Sandstorms
Next up: Palm Beach + Neon City at night levels
3 sessions coordinating with each other, wild
A self-initiated product: a booking and ordering system for a billiard club in Tbilisi. I designed it in Figma from scratch and built all of it, from the interface to the database.
Guests call the club and nobody answers. They arrive and every table is taken. They want food and wait at the bar. Side Pocket moves all of that to the website.
Key decisions
No guest accounts. A booking needs a name and a phone number. The guest gets a private link to move, extend or cancel. The link is the account.
A 15-minute hold. Guests check in with "I'm at the table." A table nobody claims goes to the waitlist, and the next person gets the same 15 minutes.
Ordering tied to the table. Guests order from their phone during the game, add time themselves and see the bill as it grows.
One screen for staff. Every table's state for the night, late arrivals and orders to serve pinned to the top, bookings and orders boards, alerts in Telegram.
A Telegram bot. It understands "table for 4 tonight at 8" in English or Russian and finishes the booking with buttons.
Scope
Guest site with live availability, single and group booking, waitlist, private booking page, table page with menu, cart and bill, email confirmations and reminders, staff dashboard, Telegram bot.
Stack
React 19, TanStack Start, TanStack Router and Query, Tailwind 4, Radix UI, Supabase Postgres with row-level security, pg_cron, Brevo and Resend, Telegram Bot API, Vitest.
Business rules sit in plain functions, separate from the UI and the database, with 73 tests. Only server functions touch the database.
My role
Product design, UI design, front-end, back-end, database, integrations.
Live demo: side-pocket.lovable.app
Built for the #LovableChallenge by @Contra and @Lovable. #BuiltWithLovable😊
nicety accomplished.. great work
I tested Opus 5.5 and had it build an arcade game in Unity using the CLI and Claude Code.
The game is called Heatwave and is a quick and fun little police chase game.
Of all the games I've made, this is actually the one I enjoy to test the most.
I'm terrible at it, but it's fun.
Wanting another run even when you are bad at it is a pretty good sign. What took more iteration in Heatwave, the driving feel or the police chase behavior?