Graveyard Shift Watch Face

Seven pixel-art creatures work the graveyard shift on your watch, and they never let the time slip.

Every minute, the creature on duty swaps the minute digit with a routine of its own. One lowers a stone block on a chain until the old digit bursts. One sneezes it to dust. One knocks it over and eats it, bite by bite. However it goes, the new minute lands right on time.

Made for Halloween and every night after: an animated pixel art graveyard watch face for Wear OS. The time stands in fresh-cut stone in the masons' yard by the graveyard, lit by the crew's fire and the moon, with the feel of an old-school 8-bit handheld game you forgot you owned.

THE SHIFT
Three of the seven are on duty each hour, two in the yard and one on the wall above the time. Every ten minutes the runner on the wall carries the one across and slams it into place. On the hour the whole shift sinks into the ground, and the next crew climbs out to face you.

A WORLD THAT KEEPS WATCH
The yard keeps quiet track of your day. The colon glows with your heartbeat, the lantern on the gate post burns down with your battery, a tally of dressed stones grows as you near your step goal, letters pile up in the foreman's chest while messages wait, and the moon over the graveyard follows its real phase. Rain, snow, fog and storms reach the yard when your weather does.

LITTLE SURPRISES
A golden minute once a day. A shooting star on clear nights, and at 11:11 whenever the sky is clear. A green moon through the witching hour. On Halloween itself the stones glow amber and bats swarm the night sky. When your battery runs low, one tired creature keeps the shift going alone.

ALWAYS-ON DISPLAY
When your watch dims, the crew clocks off and only the stone numerals stay, lit by the moon. Raise your wrist and the shift climbs back out.

MAKE IT YOURS
Hold the face and choose Customize: the crew size (Full shift, Duo or Solo), four numeral stones (Ash, Ember, Blight or Moon), the date or the weather, weather effects, tilt to wobble and the always-on style.

TAP TO OPEN
Tap the time for alarms, the colon for heart rate, the date for your calendar, the letters for messages and the lantern for battery details.

ON YOUR PHONE
The optional Graveyard Shift · Setup app plays a recording of the face and shows how to add it. Install the watch face on your watch through Google Play, then hold your current face, choose Add watch face and select Graveyard Shift. The watch face works on its own; no Pixelpond account is needed.

REQUIREMENTS
Watch face: Wear OS 6 or later on a compatible watch.
Optional phone guide: Android 7.0 or later.
Always-on display depends on your watch and its settings.

Pixel art. Live logic. On your wrist.
Made by Pixelpond.