Rippledove

Rippledove is a calm, hand-painted stone skipping game set on a 1960s rooftop. Mint bronze discs on a little hand press, skip them across the pond at the foot of an old rocket-shaped pigeon loft, and use every skip to bring the loft back to life. Each throw is yours alone. Pull the disc back, lean the pull to raise the angle, and let go. The disc flies, kisses the water and rings like a small bell on every touch. Your score is not where it lands but how many times it skips. After the third skip the chime lifts a tone, after the sixth it lifts again, and past the tenth it rings in its brightest voice. Nothing is left to chance: the same pull on the same pond always makes the same flight, so every improvement is your own. KEY FEATURES ✓ Pull-back throwing with a live angle fan, a power gauge and an optional dotted guide ✓ Seventy-two route ponds across nine seasons, with goals from 4 to 25 skips in one throw ✓ Endless Open Water past the route, each stretch a little longer than the last ✓ Satellite buoys that fling your disc onward, lily pads to hop, ice rims in winter and changing roof winds ✓ Restoration Bench: 36 loft parts over nine floors, each one changing the rules — perches add throws, the brass dome adds a tailwind ✓ Mint Counter with 16 disc blanks that fly differently, plus a Die Engraver to strike your own pattern ✓ Disc Cabinet of 32 discs, Rooftop Postcards and capsule letters carried in by homing pigeons ✓ Launch Window: one pond of the day, the same on every device, with a streak of up to 30 days HOW IT WORKS 1. Throw a series of ten discs on the current pond and listen for the chimes. 2. Reach the pond's goal in a single throw to clear it and open the next one. 3. Every skip is banked for good. Spend banked skips on loft parts and new blanks. 4. Check the Ripple Count after each series, study your Flight Log and chase your Longest Skips. The town around you is part of the game. A teardrop rocket waits on its gantry beyond the roofs, the seasons turn from Thaw Weeks and Lily Bloom to First Frost and Launch Season, and neighbours send notes up by pigeon as the loft comes back together. The Skipping Manual, written in the old keeper's voice, explains angle, power, wind, buoys and ice whenever you want a hint. WHY RIPPLEDOVE It is a skill game with no luck in it at all: no random rewards, no timers, no energy. The whole world is painted in loose watercolour, the chimes are composed for this app, and every screen of the logbook is meant to be lingered over. Sound, vibration and the throw guide can be switched off in the Control Panel. PRIVACY Rippledove works fully offline. There is no account, no ads, no tracking and nothing to buy — every skip is earned on the water, and your logbook stays on your device. Pick up a fresh disc, find twenty degrees and see how far the ripples go.