Mipkin: Self-Care Pet & Diary

Mipkin is a small creature who lives in your phone, and a quiet loop you can pick up and put down. You look after them by looking after yourself. Answer the day in three taps, weather, energy, what you need, and the day shapes itself around that answer, so a heavy day leads with the smaller things instead of the same list as everyone else's. Your companion arrives through a small ritual and is the one that came, not one you picked off a grid. They grow through five visible stages. Growth counts wanders taken, never days in a row, so a fortnight away leaves it exactly where you left it. Somewhere to put the day down. Your own journal pages, with a question above the box so the first sentence is nearly free. Stored on your phone. Yours to delete, one at a time. A room that fills up. Warmth is earned by living here and spent on things that then appear in your Nook. It cannot be bought with…