Friendpire

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  Main Screenshot

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  App Icon

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  Screen Loader

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  Bonking Robber

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  Hugs for production boost

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  Being sent to the mines

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  Tile reveal

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  Placing Dock

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  Collecting Fish

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  Opening Royal Vault

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  Image of my Empire

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  Capturing my face

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  Customizing my chibi

Inspiration

This game is inspired by being away from my old friends and playing Catan. Whenever we get together, we often play Catan, and it is usually the highlight of the night. We always say that we will play online, but it never happens. So I built Friendpire to create a low-friction way to bring all my friends into my empire so we can gather resources and build something together.

What it does

You have an empire of hexagons like Catan, and you put your friends to work on tiles to gather resources, which are used to create wheat farms, docks for fishing, mines for mining, and to buy land.

How we built it

I built the entire thing using Fable in Cursor. I conversed with Fable about art style, game mechanics, and social features. Then I had it build to a milestone, reviewed it, and repeated that process until it was complete.

Challenges we ran into

The biggest challenge was getting the art right. All the art is AI-generated, but it was challenging to make it look the way I wanted it to. This also included creating the app screenshots.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I'm proud of getting this app shipped for Shipaton. It was an incredibly busy month, and without the Shipaton deadline, it would not have happened.

What we learned

Something cool that I did was connect the Higgsfield MCP to Cursor to iterate on designs and keep consistency across image generations.

What's next for Friendpire

Getting everyone in RevenueCat to join my Friendpire.

Built With

• branch
• revenuecat
• supabase
• swift