holm

ABOUT

This is an evolving prototype, intended as...

• a wander game about traversal, providing a huge environment to explore at a very leisurely pace
• a canvas to experiment with landscape design, creating a variety of small microbiomes and subtle gradations of place. Oddly enough, the inspiration for this was the 2006 adaptation of The Wicker Man, which, if nothing else, had a number of compelling locations.

The primary goal is to traverse the island, from tip to tip, at a slow walking pace, visiting various settlements along the way and constructing a history of successive lived generations in this place. Arriving at the opposite end you find... who knows, ghosts, probably.

The tall towers placed around the island are a form of fast-travel, folding the space for the player. They might have a purpose some day. Anyway, for the time being you can warp immediately to any tower, and you don't already have to be on top of a tower to do so. Just point your crosshair at one, and once it brightens, left-click the mouse to travel to that point.

Development is slow enough to be just barely out of hiatus. You should try Eastshade in the meantime, though.

[Source code]

CONTROLS

WADS to walk around, mouse to look.

Controls begin inverted, as nature intended, but you can hit I to flip them this way and that.

If your crosshair touches one of the towers, it will be highlighted; left-click to warp to that point.

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Drink pairing

Riesling

Music pairing

High Aura'd, No River Long Enough Doesn't Contain a Bend.