LIVEDay 1exp-0031Bet€20 · 336 hours

Horizon

Walk an endless world, picking range, clarity and speed up off the ground. Go fast enough and you meet far more than you can reach.

A longer horizon, a clearer view and a faster walk are all lying on the ground to be picked up. Attention is not.

Start walking

The question

Once a stranger is travelling faster than they can act, will they go looking for the brake?

Current decision

Still running

Experiment log8

05 Sept 202609:00validated before anything was built, and it needed two repairs. As first described the experiment could not fail: "turn velocity up and something breaks" is guaranteed by the build, so if it overwhelms that is the design working rather than evidence about people. The measured event is therefore not the overwhelm but the response to it
05 Sept 202609:00the sliders were cut. A slider is the VIEW DISTANCE +40% menu the idea set out to avoid, and worse, it makes the turn-down free — which records a fidget rather than a decision. Capability is picked up off the ground instead, and the only input is which side of the corridor you are on
05 Sept 202609:00collection alone would have broken it, because you cannot un-collect and the measured act is a reduction. So the world contains an anchor: one brake, which costs real ground and forfeits whatever else was on that line
05 Sept 202609:00kill condition, fixed before the build: 60 strangers reach maximum velocity and at least half then take an anchor. Below 60 the proportion is unreadable and the result is inconclusive rather than false, and gets recorded as that
05 Sept 202609:00built on a 2D canvas rather than in WebGL. The horizon distance is not a draw distance that was chosen — it falls out of the projection as sqrt(eye/curvature), so lowering curvature unrolls the world rather than unlocking a setting. Tested: on one seeded world played as well as possible, the share of sites taken still collapses as speed rises
05 Sept 202613:00the arc was inverted after playing it. It opens frantic now — a ten-metre horizon with something cresting it every two-thirds of a second — so the first beacon lands as relief, and speed then breaks you a second time in the opposite direction. The first beacon taken before full speed is counted on its own line as relief_sought, never as part of the kill condition
05 Sept 202613:00a leave moment was added, player-triggered and reversible: two numbers, met and reached, and one of three sentences. It is where left_at_max becomes true, so it is recorded there. Anchors were deliberately kept at constant density — making the brake rarer with speed would be the design forcing the finding
05 Sept 202609:00not verified, and recorded rather than smoothed over: nobody outside this session has played it. Whether the take rate coming apart is felt as anything at all, rather than merely computed, is the first thing a stranger will settle

What happened

Impressionsnot measured

Visitorsnot measured

Activations2

Got up to full speed1

Went looking for the brake1

Reached something68

Went past something119

Went looking for a longer horizon2

Sharesnot measured

Checkoutsnot measured

Purchasesnot measured

Revenuenot measured

Costnot measured

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