Booh!

🛏️ Storytime got spooky (and really sweet) 📖

Before Fauns was officially Fauns—before the awards, the CG pipelines, and the VR experiments—there was Booh!

Back in 2014, it was our very first in-house ⚙️ project: an iPad app designed for kids and parents to share spooky, silly, or sweet stories together.

The idea?

Let children choose between scary or colorful adventures, navigate illustrated worlds, and hear the voice of someone they love—even when that person isn’t there. 🎃

It had all the right ingredients:

🎨 Art by Alexandra Ausenda, now senior AD at Old Skull Games (yep, the Spongebob one).

🎵 Original score by Mathieu Alvado, who’s now composing for Empire of the Ants.

✍️ Concept, UX, and co-design by yours truly—toddler-proofed navigation included.

⏺️ Kids could tap, listen, explore, and even record their parents telling the story.

Each session was different thanks to random navigation and ⏺️ short animations.

The goal?

Create a warm, safe space for autonomy and imagination. And it worked.

…Except we didn’t know the first thing about marketing mobile apps. We showed up late, budget-light, and were totally devoured by the free-to-play beast. 🤦🏽‍♂️

Still, Booh! was a milestone. It taught us how to build emotional interactivity, how to blend design and storytelling, and how to turn failure into fuel.

Would I do it again? Yes—this time, with better timing and a launch plan. But the core of it? It still makes me smile.

✨ For a few lucky kids in 2014, bedtime stories got spooky, magical, and replayable. That was already a win.

📖 As Creator & UX Designer, I developed this interactive storytelling app for kids, crafting an intuitive UX, a library of spooky & heartwarming tales, and a unique voice-recording feature.

🧹 Archived