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Mugio

A reaction game for iPhone that you play with your face. Make the emoji's face before the ring runs out. One miss ends the run.

ClientOur own

Year2026

PlatformiPhone · Face ID

StatusTestFlight beta

The game

Your face is the controller. The clip you record is the ad.

The brief was a game people would film and send to their friends. An emoji drops into the ring and you make that face before it runs out. The camera reads how far your face moves and how long you hold it, never how you look.

Make that face.

01

Faster with every face.

The first three faces get 3.2 seconds each. Then the ring tightens with every face, down to 0.8 seconds.

02

One miss, then the roast.

A miss replays your last 1.75 seconds in slow motion under a one-line roast. It teases the run, never the person.

Every face is evidence.

Every face you make is photographed, and a run ends on a sheet of them, ready to send.

Five Mugio share cards standing in a lineup against a height chart on yellow: Skill issue at twenty faces, a daily at fourteen, a challenge at twenty-two, and both sides of a face-off that P1 won five to four

Numbers we will defend

18Faces in the deck

15Of the 52 face movements, read on every frame

0.8Seconds per face at full speed, from 3.2

3Days from the brief to TestFlight

From MUG to Mugio.

On 26 September it was renamed and redrawn to match its website.

The first build: a run on fire at ten faces, on a dark purple ground

The first build's results laid over the run: too slow, twelve faces, Face Cadet

Mugio on 2 October: a run on pink, nine faces, on fire

Mugio on 2 October: the results on a yellow sheet, your face gave up, twelve faces

Colophon

Made by	The team at Bolted. Our own game, from the brief to TestFlight.
Platform	iPhone with Face ID, iOS 17 or later. A TestFlight beta.
Stack	Swift, SwiftUI, ARKit face tracking. Tracking and photos stay on the phone, and every sound is made in code.
Captures	From the Simulator, which has no face camera, so every face on this page is its stand-in.
Links	mugio.app

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