Coat or Not Press kit

A pixel-art buddy dresses for today's weather, so you know what to wear.

Fact sheet

Developer: Beagle Byte Studio, Serbia
Platform: Android phones, with a home-screen widget
Price: Free, with a single banner ad
Release: Coming soon to Google Play
Website: beaglebytestudio.com/coat-or-not
Contact: [email protected]

About

Should you take a coat? Open the app and look at the character: they're already dressed for the weather outside.

Coat or Not turns the forecast into an outfit. A pixel-art fox, cat, bear, raccoon, corgi or person stands in a scene that matches your sky, wearing what the day calls for, and tells you in a speech bubble: the temperature, how it feels, and the clothes to grab, from beanie to boots.

Key features

What to wear, not just numbers: advice built on the "feels like" temperature, then adjusted for rain, snow, wind, fog and sun.
Plan ahead: the next five hours, a seven-day forecast, and tap any day to see the character dress for it.
A home-screen widget with the dressed-up character, the temperature and the outfit.
Private by design: no account, approximate location only, and city search (34,000 cities) that works offline.

Images

You're welcome to use these in coverage of Coat or Not. Click an image for the full size.

Coat or Not, free for Android: two tilted phones, a bear in a yellow raincoat under an umbrella for a rainy Friday in Bergen and a corgi in a puffer jacket and scarf for 1° in Nuuk, with pixel-art umbrella, beanie, scarf and boots around them — Promo image, 2400×1350. Also as a portrait version for social feeds (1080×1350).

The six characters on a mild day: a fox, a cat, a bear, a raccoon, a corgi and a person — The six characters, dressed for a mild day.

Plain phone, no text: cold, rain (1200×1400)
Characters, one by one: fox, cat, bear, raccoon, corgi, person (768×1376)
App icon (512×512) and store banner (1024×500)
The Google Play screenshots are in the ZIP, along with a plain-text fact sheet.

About the art

The pixel-art scenes were generated with an image model, then picked and catalogued by hand so each character wears the outfit the app advises.

Credits

Weather data: MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute), CC BY 4.0. City list: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0.

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