I didn’t understand the win-condition until level 5 or so, having until that point I guess stumbled into the exits moving backwards or while strafing. (I’ve been heavily relying on both to get my bearings.)

This might be obvious to most, but was interesting for me to think through (though totally possible there’s a mistake in my reasoning): at first I thought the novel thing here was the lack of depth perception, but in fact by moving forward and backwards, you definitely do have a sense of depth based on the speed at which isolated pattern areas ‘move’ toward the edges of the screen. And strafing you can get a bit of a sense of depth (assuming you can determine figure from ground, but you can switch to the previous trick to determine that in many cases). The most novel aspect, I think, in terms of affecting one’s ability to comprehend the space and thus navigate it, is that you cannot determine if a solid section of pattern represents a single wall or multiple walls at different depths. That’s a neat limitation.

(To Aquin, I only noticed clipping issues in one level so far, the one called something like ‘the purpose of color’.)

(A last side note, I wonder if this might be more or less interesting without the yellow diagonal pattern and its illusion of vertical motion)

Oh, one more thought: I wonder if this might be improved by having the sound change as you get closer or further from the goal point. I could see how such a system might trivialize some of what’s interesting about the disorientation here, but as-is the least fun aspect is the aimless wandering (if you’re not bearing down and systematically checking all avenues). The level I felt this in the most (and possibly exclusively) was “panic room,” in which I had intuited the structure but was never sure if I was reentering the same chamber or a different one. (Obviously I could have just been more careful.)

Again, so very, very good. I adore this.

Also, for those stuck, the exits are the animated textures. I spent a lot of time wandering off into noman’s land til I got that sorted out.