Falling Hall

Software Rendered Descent

FALLING HALL

A 2.5D falling scene rendered on the CPU, with a bell tone lifted from the same synth logic that powered Dead Beat.

Calibrating descent 0 chimes

Arm audio, then drift with WASD or the arrow keys. The shaft chimes when you strike the wall.

Depth 0 m

Drift 0.00

Wall Proximity Centered

Controls

W / Arrow Up: drift upward inside the shaft.
S / Arrow Down: drift downward inside the shaft.
A / Arrow Left: drift left.
D / Arrow Right: drift right.
Shift: lean into a faster drop.

Build Notes

The tunnel is not a square room. It is a long faceted tube whose cross section shifts ring by ring, so it reads more like an icosphere stretched into an endless hallway.

The view is rendered into a low-resolution framebuffer and scaled back up with crisp pixels and scanlines, so it stays close to the site’s existing software rendering experiments.

Bell Logic

Each wall strike triggers a small bell built from the same triangle-wave generator pattern introduced on Dead Beat.

What It Is

This piece treats falling like navigation. You are always descending, but the tunnel pulls and twists just enough to make the drop feel physical. The center stays dark and distant while the walls pick up ring seams, facet edges, and impact flashes as they rush past.