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These days a potato salad can rake in over $15K on Kickstarter and a barely interactive "mountain simulator" can become one of the most popular programs on the iOS App Store. What a world we live in.The app in question, simply titled Mountain, markets itself as a "relax 'em up" featuring "no controls". The brainchild of animator David OReilly - director of Adventure Time's A Glitch is a Glitch episode and the man behind Her's "Alien Child" video game sequence - Mountain asks players to sit back and watch a hillside evolve.
There are some limited interactions, however. The game begins by asking players to draw images in response so some ambiguous prompts like "sickness", "afterlife" or "beauty", and these are reflected in your mountain. There are also ways to speed up time and listen to your mountain's thoughts, but you mostly just sit back and check on it every now and again as it grows trees, braves various climates, and spawns bizarre objects (bicycles, horses, hats and the like).
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