Seaside

"That's the limitless future for computer games. We haven't yet surpassed... fighting and killing games. Not because we haven't fully understood computers. But because we haven't fully understood ourselves: human beings. Our future collaboration can be based on these objectives. This is the way forward. These are uncharted waters, so I understand your hesitations. But this cutting-edge approach puts us well ahead of any future competition. So there are ample grounds for optimism."   - Yi Yi (2000) dir. Edward Yang

Here we have yet another experimental piece made  by TidB, this one focusing on traversal aspect of human life. We seem to be walking through packed restaurant (or bar, the details are kept vague) restaurant/bar blending with an empty sidewalk light up by cold and dim white streetlights. In dinery loud discoteque-like music is playing that fades away when we walk into sidewalk. Great representation of usual life, we see bustling life inside but we can't interact with it, we're left to walk on dark lonely sidewalk of life. I hope to see more of TidB's endeavours in future.

I liked the lightbars floating near walls in the latter part of the level. In the same part, near the left wall, there is a gap into a void, but you can't fall into it. The idea of walking over a river, and then seeing the area where you started, full of light and life was cool. The cylinder people, fading and appearing, represented a busy crowd.

Works on WINE btw.