Pixel Pond

A pair of koi, a pond of your own, and the seasons as they really are outside your window. Feed them, tend the water, and see who comes to visit.

Pixel Pond is a quiet little koi pond that lives on your phone.

Start with two young koi and a quiet pond. Feed them, arrange rocks, lily pads, grass and a fallen branch, and watch them grow plump, find their favourite corners and, in time, raise a new generation.

The pond keeps real time. Spring brings sakura petals drifting across the water, summer brings dragonflies and cicadas, autumn leaves float down, and winter ices the pond over. Clouds drift by, and rain, snow, meteor showers and the odd aurora come and go on their own.

And visitors come: butterflies, beetles, frogs, turtles, snails, fireflies, moths and many more, each in its own season and hour. Tap one to note it in your journal, and see how many of the pond's 76 critters you can find.

Made for iPhone Duo: the pond waits on the cover screen, and opens up when you do. Plays on every iPhone.

• Koi with their own colours, patterns and habits, raised from roe
• 76 visiting critters, each with its own page in the journal
• Seasonal plants and flowers, lotus blooms and mushrooms
• Weather and seasons that follow the real calendar
• Gifts for the pond now and then: new rocks, pads and plants
• Gentle synthesised sounds, every one played in tune
• No ads, no accounts, nothing collected

Made by one person, Michael Tseng. Feedback is always welcome at hello@pixelpond.org.