— A Living Digital Species · ANNO MMXXVI —
— A Newly Catalogued Digital Species —
Species
Felis Pixella
First Recorded
A.D. 1894
Habitat
Desktop · Screen
Catalogued
Sixty-Nine
Adoption
Free Companion
Every one is an independently catalogued specimen — nearly seventy cats, each with her own name, coat, temperament, and cited inspiration; none are the random cross-products of a few variables. The first is yours to adopt free; keep her company through some contented days, and a second will steep into being at the corner of your desk — later members join by redemption code.
Free download · some content is paid · not for purchase under age 8
Nearly seventy cats, each compiled by hand — her own name, palette, temperament, and source of inspiration. Mia is a ginger tabby who watches sparrows; Monsieur Blanc, a Birman who sniffs thrice before every meal. None are interchangeable.
Install the desktop companion, and your cat strolls along the tops of your windows — calling out when hungry, batting at the little mouse in the screen's corner when bored.
Your cat may stay a while at a friend's place and return having made new acquaintances — much like paying a call in the world outside.
Download the companion edition and open the first specimen box — a cat of random markings comes to live atop your windows.
Feed her, talk to her, keep her alive on your desktop. See her through a stretch of contented days, and a new specimen box steeps into being at the corner of your desk.
Every combination of markings is unique. Gather, in time, a litter wholly your own — and no two households are ever the same.
F. p. var. candidus
"Excessively refined.
Sniffs thrice before eating."
F. p. var. muscosus
"A moss-green no one has seen.
Stares at succulents for 20 minutes."
F. p. var. umbrinus
"Crouches atop the bookshelf, watching.
Nudges you once when you weep, then leaves."
F. p. var. minium
"Falls silent in a thunderstorm.
Stares unblinking at one spot on the ceiling."
Specimens named and recorded. More varieties still wander between desktops—download the companion edition free, and let them into your home.
Should a redemption code come your way—gifted by a friend, handed out at an event, or bought from the shop—right-click your pet, choose "Add New Cat," and enter it. A new specimen box appears at the corner of your screen, waiting to be opened.
It runs alongside ordinary unlocking—neither interrupting the slow raising of cats, while giving the generous a way to gift one. Each code answers to a single unique set of markings, never opened by two collectors at once.
Codes may be gifted by friends or bought from the web shop · not for purchase under age 8
Windows 10 / 11. Once installed, a cat of random markings takes up residence atop your windows— she wanders, charms, dozes, and chases the mouse in the screen's corner; she calls out when hungry and plays by herself when bored. Close her anytime.
A macOS edition is in compilation · Windows only for now