It started as a joke between friends — someone always lies, and someone always gets caught. The game existed long before the app did; the app just made it portable.
Building it was a lesson in restraint. Every version got smaller: fewer screens, fewer rules, fewer taps between opening the app and the first round of straight faces. The whole interface is designed to be passed around a table — big type, no menus, nothing precious.
(draft — tell me the real story and I’ll set it here)