Kintsugi Pottery: Goldmend

Throw clay on a wheel, fire it in a kiln, then mend whatever cracks with gold. Goldmend is a pottery game built on kintsugi, the Japanese craft of repairing ceramics with gold: each gold seam adds 40% of the base price to a piece.

Twelve written commissions from named patrons, then endless generated ones. Five glazes and nine shapes, all earned by playing. A slow mode switches cracking off. Every sound is synthesised live.

▶ Play in your browser: tool.teamzlab.com/games/goldmend

On Google Play today; the iPhone version is in App Store review.