A Way To Go

The technique is the first thing you notice: photographic textures layered under hand-drawn strokes, creating environments that feel simultaneously real and illustrated. Walking through it is genuinely disorienting — not in a bad way, but in the 'my brain doesn't have a category for this' way.

You control movement with arrow keys but the site does not explain that. It just opens on a forest path and waits. The discovery that you can run, then eventually fly, happens organically. That pacing is deliberate and it earns the patience it asks for.

The National Film Board of Canada co-produced this, which tracks. NFB has been quietly funding experimental interactive media for decades, and this is one of the better examples of what that looks like when the format gets taken seriously.