A walking simulator on two wheels, with a bell.
I’ve mentioned Bird Snapper on RPS afewtimesover the years, yet never got around to focusing on it.
Let’s do that now!
There you are in a vast grey desert.
Hills line the horizon impossibly far away.
A few birds drift through the sky.
An unfathomable array of antennae, pylons, and hovering billboards (?)
dot the landscape, towering about the spindly desert plants.
It might be another planet?
But you do have a bicycle.
And the ability to ring your bike’s bell as much as you yo.
More video game bicycles need bells, and every bike with a bell should let me tring-tring-ding-a-ling at will.
Soon after I got back into cycling, I tried to go to my favourite beach.
It’s an 87-kilometre round trip and at that point, I had never cycled such a long distance.
A series of decisions I wish I could say I had properly learned from.
At a certain point in being lost, a bicycle feels like a multiplier of mistakes.
The speed might get you back on track sooner but you could be speeding away from your salvation.
I have, at times, got off and pushed for a bit while thinking about my next move.
I don’t think Bird Snapper has a right or wrong direction.
It doesn’t have any end I’ve ever reached.
Bird Snapper developer Tom van den Boogaart later let ducks ride bicycles around the wonderfulDigital Bird Playground.
But he dismounted to make the very best walking simulator,Bernband.
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