Chain Face

a parlour amusement for the pocket

A loose ball chain, sealed under glass, riveted to an unfinished portrait. Shake your phone. The chain tumbles, catches, and gives the sitter a new nose. It is never the same nose.

Download on the App Store— $0.99 —

for iPhone · no ads · no account · nothing to subscribe to

The Hound, a dog whose snout is drawn by the chain
The Duchess with a chain nose, named The Scandalous Whisper
The daily challenge with a dotted nose to match

The Duchess, freshly shaken. Her nose was christened “The Scandalous Whisper.”

The Attractions

being a full account of the entertainments within

I.Shake thy device

Real physics on the accelerometer. Flick your wrist and the chain rains around the dish, catches on nothing, and comes to rest as a nose. There is also a button, for the dignified.

II.Tilt to sculpt

Roll the phone and the chain slides like beads on glass. Coax a droopy nose upward, or pour the whole thing toward the chin and see what the sitter thinks of that.

III.25 noses to catalogue

Every settle is measured and christened. The Noble Button. The Melancholy Roman. The Scandalous Leviathan, if fortune favours you. Collect them all.

IV.A nose a day

Each morning a dotted nose appears on the dial. Shake and tilt until your chain lines up, then take your likeness score to the Game Center leaderboards, daily and all-time.

V.Three sitters

The Duchess, a lady of consequence. The Hound, a dog of impeccable breeding. The Urchin, a scamp in a checkered cap. All of them patient. None of them have noses.

VI.Capture the accident

When the chain lands somewhere magnificent, capture the likeness, keep it in your gallery, and share it with someone who will understand.

The Parlour Demonstration

playable below, free of charge — shake button only

This is the demonstration model. The pocket edition adds the accelerometer shake, the tilt, the nose catalogue, and the daily challenge. Open the demonstration full-screen.

$0.99

Paid once, owned forever.

No ads. No subscriptions. No account. Just a chain in a dish.

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