Crease Critters

Crease Critters is a cozy pixel-art virtual pet that lives in a two-room house built around your phone's fold. The crease isn't in the way. It's the wall, the floor and the ladder. OPEN THE PHONE, AND THE HOUSE POPS UP Open a compatible foldable phone and the house rises like a pop-up book, in step with the hinge. On your first open, a speckled egg wobbles, cracks and hatches Pip, your very own critter. TWO ROOMS, ONE CREASE • Hold it like a book and the bedroom sits on the left page and the kitchen on the right. Your critter walks through an arched doorway in the crease. • Hold it like a laptop and the bedroom is upstairs, sitting on the crease. At bedtime your critter climbs a ladder up the fold to get to bed. • Lay it flat and the whole house opens up. THE HINGE IS PART OF THE GAME • Move the hinge and the house reacts. Furniture sways, the lamp swings and dust sifts down from the…