Capsule

A small present every day, from your past self.

You can't surprise yourself, unless you forget. Capsule is a capsule vending machine you fill with little presents for future days: a song from childhood, a pastry from that bakery, the cinema alone, a note saying "you're doing fine". A day later your words are sealed; one coin a day, a full turn of the crank, and a capsule rolls into the tray. Free, no ads, no account, no internet.

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How it works

1. Fill the machine. Put in presents for yourself: a small joy (five free minutes), a thing to buy, an outing, a rare golden one you save up for, or just a note. Tag when it would rather fall: morning, evening, Friday, the weekend, sun, rain, grey sky, snow.
2. Forget. For a day you can still read and take back what you put in; then the words are sealed and the capsule lies in the dome among the others. Only the colour of its shell tells the kind.
3. One coin a day. Tap the slot, turn the crank a full round clockwise (the ratchet clicks, the capsules jump) and a capsule drops into the tray. The purse keeps up to three coins for days you miss.
4. Twist it open. Drag the lid sideways until it pops; the paper unrolls with the present, and a line on when you put it in and what the weather was like.
5. The machine reads the day. Look out of the window and mark the weather: capsules tagged for today fall more often, your own more often than the factory's, and gold rarely. Things to buy keep to a monthly limit you set.
6. Hiding places. Buy a little something, hide it at home, leave a riddle and a photo of the place. Weeks later the riddle falls out of the machine; the photo opens only if you haven't found it in three days.
7. Hard day. Capsules tagged "hard day" are kept back from the crank. The dark button under the machine gives one of them, once a day, without a coin.
8. It falls by itself. Now and then a capsule drops on its own at a random moment of the day, with one quiet notification.
9. Swaps. Not today? Two swaps a week put a capsule back into the dome, lost among the rest.
10. Figures and the album. Each capsule holds a little figure. Do the present, close it with one word, and the figure stands on the shelf: four series of eight (kitchen garden, forest, sea, sky), gold from golden capsules. The papers go into an album by month.
11. The factory batch. 165 ready-made capsules in Russian and English top the dome up when it runs low, so there's a surprise even before you fill it. You can switch them off.

Build

./gradlew testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug
./gradlew -Pdemo assembleDebug          # app.capsule.demo with six weeks of capsules opened
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest -Prender --tests '*RenderArt*'   # the machine, the figures and every screen to app/build/art
python tools/shots.py app/build/art     # README screenshots from the renders

Everything is drawn in code: the machine and its physics in ui/art/Machine.kt and ui/machine/Dome.kt, the 32 figures as layered paths in ui/art/Figs.kt. Sounds are synthesised on first launch. The factory batch is app/src/main/assets/gifts.tsv.

Fonts: Rubik and Caveat, SIL Open Font License.