A one-person publishing name in Fjerdingby, Norway. Everything released under it is listed on this sleeve — which, at the time of writing, means one thing.
B1 · Android · com.repstrekk.floke
An untangle puzzle. A web of pegs and taut threads is dropped on the canvas in a knot; you drag the pegs about until no two threads cross. A counter tells you how many crossings are left and the crossed threads are picked out, so you always know where you stand. Every web is built to come apart, so a clean solution is always there to be found.
It runs offline, asks for no account, and shows no advertising. What it keeps — your best move counts and times, where you left off — stays on the handset. The privacy notice says so in detail.
Liner notes
The name came before the work, which is the wrong way round and worth admitting on the first page rather than the last. Frost is a surname. Audio was aspiration. Put together they make a good-looking wordmark and a slightly misleading promise, and I would rather you heard that from me than worked it out yourself halfway down a store listing.
So, plainly: nothing here plays, records, filters or measures sound. There is no app for audio, no plug-in, no hardware, no headphones for sale, and the pair in the artwork are a photograph rather than a product. If you came looking for any of that, you have the wrong Frost, and I am sorry about the drive.
What there is instead is Floke — Norwegian for a tangle, the sort you get in a fishing line or a bundle of cable — which is the one title in the catalogue and the reason this page exists at all. It is a quiet puzzle about pulling things straight. The connection to the name is a cable in a knot, and that is as far as it goes.
On the legal shape of things, since this is where people look for it: Frost Audio is not a company. It is a name I publish under. There is no AS, no ENK, no limited anything, and therefore no organisation number to print, which is why you will not find one anywhere on this site. The person responsible for the software, for this page and for anything that goes wrong is Thomas Arill Eriksen Frost, at the address in the credits. If that matters for your purposes — and for a few people it genuinely does — then that is the whole of the answer, and there is nothing further behind it.
Work happens in the evenings and at the kitchen table. There is no team, no roadmap published anywhere, and no schedule I would be willing to hold myself to in writing. When something breaks, I fix it when I see it, which is usually because somebody wrote to me, since nothing in the software reports back.
I make no claims about what a puzzle does to a person. It will not train your brain, improve your focus or help you sleep, and anyone telling you otherwise about any puzzle is selling something. Floke is a tangle and the pleasure of pulling it straight. That is the entire proposition, and prices — if there are ever any — live on the Google Play listing and nowhere else.
The sleeve conceit, before anyone asks: an A-side, a B-side and a run-out groove seemed a reasonable way to lay out a company with one product and nothing to hide, and the name had already written the joke. No record exists. The grooves at the bottom of this page are drawn, not pressed.
Run-out groove
Floke promises that every web it gives you can be pulled straight. That is a real promise with a real limit behind it, and the limit is arithmetic rather than opinion — so here it is, with the numbers you can check.
A web of threads can be laid flat with no crossings only if it is sparse enough. For n pegs the hard ceiling is 3n − 6 threads. One thread past that and no arrangement of the pegs on any canvas, however clever, will separate them — proved by Euler in the eighteenth century and not softened since.
What is not here: a hint, a solver, or a single level from the game. This draws webs it has built itself and counts them. It cannot tell you which peg to move, because the ceiling says only whether a web can come apart — never how. That part is the game, and it is left alone.
FROSTAUDIO.GARDEN SIDE A · 5 / SIDE B · 1 FJERDINGBY NO-2008
Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC. Frost Audio and Thomas Arill Eriksen Frost are not affiliated with, endorsed by or acting on behalf of Google LLC. The headphones and waveform in the artwork are decoration; no audio product is offered or sold. Nothing on this page is an offer, a price or a forecast.