Peekaboard
Games for two, across the fold
Peekaboard is a table of games for two people and one iPhone. Version 1.0 has one game, Naval Duel. Each player hides a toy fleet on their half of the sea, the players take turns to fire at the other half, and the first to sink the whole enemy fleet wins. Play Captain Rojo on your own, or a friend on the same phone, with a cover screen between turns so nobody sees the other fleet. On iPhone Duo you lay the phone flat between you and fold your half up to peek. On every other iPhone you touch and hold the eye button. It works offline, with no account and no ads.
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On iPhone Duo: what it does there
On iPhone Duo
Fold your half up to peek
On iPhone Duo, Peekaboard turns the open phone into the table. It lies flat between the two players, each player has one half of the sea, and on your turn you fold the phone up towards you to see your own fleet.
Flat between you
The open Duo is the board. The fold is the line between the two halves of the sea.
Fold up to peek
On your turn, fold the phone up towards yourself and your fleet rises out of the water. Lay it flat again and it sinks out of sight.
A cover screen between turns
The hinge can't tell which half moved, so the board covers itself and asks the next player to take the phone before anything is shown.
The same game on any iPhone
Without a hinge, you touch and hold the eye button to peek.
Screens from Apple's iPhone Duo simulator. The fold-to-peek has run in the simulator only, not yet on a real iPhone Duo, and the fold angles will be tuned on the hardware after 23 October. The captain and player portraits are AI-generated.
On every other iPhone
Screens from the iPhone simulator. Without a hinge, you touch and hold the eye button to peek. The captain and player portraits are AI-generated.
What it does
- Naval Duel: hide your toy fleet on your half of the sea, take turns to fire, and sink the whole enemy fleet to win
- Play Captain Rojo on your own, at Deckhand, Captain or Admiral level
- Two players on one phone, with a cover screen between turns so nobody sees the other fleet
- Drag a ship to move it, tap it to turn it, or Shuffle for a random fleet
- On iPhone Duo, lay it flat between you and fold your half up to peek at your fleet
- On every other iPhone, touch and hold the eye button to peek
- The match saves by itself, so you can stop and continue later
- Works offline, with no account and no ads
- Original sound and music, with a mute button