Pop! Buddy

A popcorn cooking sim full of tiny surprises.

A portrait 2D cooking game: pour the oil, tilt the corn bowl, ride the heat knob and catch every pop — with gag events that make each 60-second round different.

Released · 2026 · iOS · React Native, Expo, TypeScript, AdMob

Overview

Pop! Buddy is a tiny, joyful cooking toy: a top-down pan, a glass lid and a bowl of corn. Every interaction is physical — you pour by tilting, you control heat with a knob, you flip the pan to save the batch.

Design focus

• One-thumb physicality. Drag to pan, tilt to pour, release to stop.
• Short sessions. Rounds last 30–60 seconds, perfect for a quick break.
• Surprise. Gag events interrupt the routine just often enough to make you laugh.

Outcome

Pop! Buddy is live on the App Store — the first LILIZ LAB release, and the project that shaped the studio's release pipeline.