Factsheet

Developer:
Zarfhome Software
Based in Boston, Massachusetts

Release date:
September 4, 2012

Platforms:
iOS, tvOS (Apple App Store)

Website:
zarfhome.com/pocketstorm

Regular Price:

USD$3.00

Description

Pocket Storm is an environmental audio player which streams an hour-long, ever-changing thunderstorm — just for you. Pocket Storm is not like other environmental audio apps. Every thunderstorm is different! Wind, rain, thunder — even chirping crickets — every sound is chosen from a library, with subtle variations of pitch and timing. Pocket Storm weaves these elements into a tapestry of sound which will never repeat.

History

Pocket Storm is built on Boodler technology. Boodler is an open-source soundscape project which I invented years ago. Boodler is designed for any kind of complex audio environment — weather, traffic, alien worlds — but I’ve never developed it as it really deserves. Pocket Storm is my first attempt to bring Boodler to a consumer audience.

Features

  • A storm that approaches, surrounds you, and then drifts away.
  • Elegant, uncluttered interface.
  • Set the storm’s duration anywhere from a sixty-minute monster down to a five-minute squall... or hold the skies in place, and listen to the same weather for as long as you want.
  • Listen with headphones... or send audio to an AppleTV or other AirPlay device on your wireless network.
  • Runs as a background audio app. (No Internet connection required!)

Videos

There are currently no trailers available for Pocket Storm. Check back later for more or contact us for specific requests!


Images

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Boodler
The open-source sound engine that underlies Pocket Storm. boodler.org.


About Zarfhome Software

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Interactive fiction and other narrative experiments.

More information
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Pocket Storm Credits

Andrew Plotkin
Designer


presskit() by Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) - also thanks to these fine folks