Horizon — walk an endless world where seeing further, seeing clearer and moving faster are picked up off the ground, and attention is not

HORIZONexp-0031

You are walking. You will not stop walking.

Steer with ← →, or hold and drag. Walk into a thing to take it. Each one says what it does to you.

Horizon 10 metres, clarity 0 per cent, speed 9, reach 100 per cent. Met 0, reached 0.

What this is

You walk. Three of the things lying on the ground make you more capable: a beacon pushes the horizon out, a lens makes what is out there legible, a spur makes you faster. A fourth, the anchor, is the only brake in the world. The last kind, a site, is what the walk is ostensibly for.

There is one control: which side of the corridor you are on. Lateral movement is a fixed speed, so the faster you travel forward the less sideways ground you cover before a thing is behind you. Nothing is taken away from you as you improve — it is simply that seeing further, seeing better and moving faster are all things you can be given, and the attention to act on any of it is not. Watch Met and Got come apart.

Nothing is stored about you. There is no account and no upload. What remains are counters — how many people got up to full speed, and how many of those then went looking for the brake — because this is experiment exp-0031 and that number is the whole point. They are public on the story page, and they are the same numbers you could inflate; that page says so too.

This is an experiment. It might be gone next month.

An experiment by Project Nothing — what this cost, and what happened