Ember Traces
Draw with fire above a Nordic campfire. Original music, northern lights and narrated stories turn glowing traces into a little everyday magic.
Lucky Dreamer is an independent, founder-led studio making original games and practical apps in an AI-native way, with 20+ games across development and release. Software with a little starlight in it, built small and shipped often.
Cozy games you can play today, bigger worlds on the way, and a lab full of experiments behind them.
Draw with fire above a Nordic campfire. Original music, northern lights and narrated stories turn glowing traces into a little everyday magic.
A cozy Mahjong Solitaire game with bright tiles, expressive animal friends and gentle garden scenes.
A Halloween picture book you can play: help ten friendly monsters get ready for the party.
A Viking puzzle saga: read each living weave, pull the strands on top and free the Golden Thread.
Coming Fall 2026
AI-native describes how this studio builds, not a chatbot bolted onto every screen. Design, engineering, testing, shipping — the whole process runs with AI in the loop, which is how one founder ships apps that used to take a team.
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Games are where the dreamer half runs free. Original, systems-driven play — small worlds with big hearts, built with the same care (and the same AI-native toolkit) as everything else in the studio.
Heart Of The House
Tasks, supplies, equipment records, projects, house history, reminders — and practical AI help that actually knows your house. Heart Of The House is Lucky Dreamer's first public product, live on iOS, Android, and the web.
The first dream out of the lab — live on iOS, Android, and the web.
The power goes out. A radio tells you to leave. A first look at the cinematic survival thriller I’ve always wanted to play.
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Software engineering leader, founder, and singer-songwriter. Lucky Dreamer is where those threads braid together: engineering discipline, product taste, and just enough artistic recklessness to make things worth playing.
Music lives on at joonastanner.com, professional background on LinkedIn.
The latest AI news, curated battle-tested thoughts, game reveals, and product launches — the blog is where everything lands first. No noise, only signal from the lab.