FOLD & SQUISH: BUTTERFLY PAINT
Press kit
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Paint one half of the page, fold it shut, give it a squish and peel it open to find a mirror print.
On iPhone Duo, the phone itself is the paper.

FACT SHEET
Developer:     Fountain Interactive Ltd, London, UK
Release date:  22 October 2026
Platforms:     iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo (iOS 18 or later)
Price:         Free, with one optional in-app purchase (the Sparkle Pack). No ads, subscriptions or tracking.
Age rating:    4+
Languages:     30 languages
App Store:     https://apps.apple.com/app/id6822789179
Website:       https://fountaininteractive.com/FoldAndSquish/
Trailer:       https://youtu.be/OpPjzbRqBv0
Press contact: foldandsquish@fountaininteractive.com

ABOUT
Fold & Squish is the folded paper painting you probably did at school, rebuilt so the paint feels
real. Paint on one half of the page, fold it shut, rub it, then peel it open. The paint has squished
into a mirror image, and no two prints come out the same.

The paint is thick and wet. It spreads when you press on it, colors mix where they touch, and the
paper leaves fine veins in it as it peels apart. Kids love it, and grown-ups find it oddly calming.

On iPhone Duo, your phone is the paper. Paint on the open screen, then close the phone for real and
the painting folds shut with it. Rub the outside screen to squish the paint, open the phone again,
and there's your print. On any other iPhone or iPad, the Fold button folds the page.

FEATURES
- Real-feeling wet paint, simulated on the GPU: it spreads, mixes and peels apart with paper veins
- On iPhone Duo, close the real phone to fold the painting and rub the outside screen to squish it
- A brush, big splats, drippy drops, finger smudging and a magic straw that blows paint into wiggly shapes
- Fold again over the top to add another layer
- Faint pencil guides to start from, like a butterfly, an owl, a flower or a ladybug
- Apple Pencil on iPad: the pencil paints and fingers smudge, with pressure, tilt and hover
- Paintings save as you go and get taped up on a gallery wall
- No ads, no accounts, no tracking; buying and sharing sit behind a grown-ups check

TEN YEARS FROM INKS. TO WET PAINT
Ten years ago Dan Fountain was the game designer and technical artist behind the fluid-dynamics ink
in INKS., State of Play's pinball game, which won a 2016 Apple Design Award. Phones have caught up
with what that ink was only hinting at.

Fold & Squish rebuilds the idea as the butterfly painting every child makes at school: thick, wet
paint that squishes, mixes and peels apart, running as a Metal compute simulation on today's Apple
GPUs. Its toughest tester was Dan's four-year-old.

How the paint works: https://danfountain.com/blog/paint-that-squishes/

ABOUT FOUNTAIN INTERACTIVE
Fountain Interactive is an independent interactive studio in London, founded by Dan Fountain. Dan
has spent more than ten years making tactile, playful software. He was the game designer and
technical artist behind the fluid ink in State of Play's INKS., winner of a 2016 Apple Design Award,
and has worked on the Apple Design Award-winning Blackbox for AVP and the BAFTA-winning Lumino City.
Fountain Interactive's first two apps, Fold & Squish and Tiny Computers, launched alongside iPhone
Duo in October 2026.
https://fountaininteractive.com/

IN THIS FOLDER
- Press-Sheet.pdf: one-page summary
- Press-Release.txt
- images/: screenshots, renders, key art, icon and logo, at full size
- video/: app preview

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