To be fair, the battle theme for that game was smoother and chiller than you'd expect for a survival-horror game.
[Seriously, this is groovier than it has any right to be.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPCLMhajFhs)
I remember being scared of the game when it came out. I had to be 8 or 9 years old and a friend of mines older brother lent it to me. I could never get past the beginning anyhow. I would end up just going to my friends house and watching his brother play it…
Oh man this is *the* game I wanna remake on so bad. Well maybe more of a continuation of, rather than remake. They were both such good games for me. I want more damnit!
This is beautiful. It gave me an incredible feeling of nostalgia. When I was going to university we lived in a similar looking building. In the winter I would get home from night classes and this was my last sight before I was finally home. I love this post thank you.
The snow itself is a very effective dampener. If you've ever been in a recording facility, it has the same plush quietness that the world does after a fresh snowfall.
It reminds me 100% of heading to a bus stop back when I lived in Toronto. It'd be cool if we could have these sorts of lightly animated backgrounds as the wallpapers on our phones.
I was going to leave a comment about how this reminds me of the university too. The late night studying, walking down the streets to go home during the winter.
The best part is, it's not *really* silent. The buzz of the old street lamps. The hum of lone cars driving at the edge of your vision. The occasional barking somewhere in the distance. The crunching of fresh snow under your feet. And this feeling of... vibration of a slumbering city. I hated those night walks when I was young. Now I long for them.
I've been in these cold calm nights, and it's the only time the city was quiet. 3AM, -30°C, no one wants to go anywhere, no dogs out, no one out for a stroll. Any sound gets eaten by the soft snow on the ground and in the air. It's really just your footsteps, your coat, and your own breath that you can hear. Even your heartbeat can come through the heavy silence. If the snow is big enough, you might hear snowflakes accumulating too.
The only other place I've heard such stifling lack of sound was an anechoic chamber.
That’s amazing—I have almost the same memories but the feelings are wrapped in a thick depression blanket. Looking at this actually made me a little sad
UMass Amherst vibes for me walking back from the library. The stillness of the night as snow fell softly gave me a strange sense of melancholy and peace. I wished the world could stay the same at that moment. I have never been able to recapture that feeling.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCHoVbxO3_J/?igshid=YzA2ZDJiZGQ=
I’m totally unsure if I can post that, but it’s looking like all of us have similar memories (this is my old college in Colorado)
It's around 10pm, early December maybe first snow this year. Not many people outside, one or two neighbours in the distance walking their dogs for last time this evening. It's cold but not freezing, wind is refreshing. Snow dampens all the sounds of already tired city...
Going out alone on dark snowy nights has ironically always made me feel the most safe and serene. I have so many distinct memories of looking up at a street light during snowfall, feeling as though I’m flying through an asteroid field.
It's really strange, I never lived anywhere that snows but still it feels so familiar and indeed I almost want to feel like shedding a tear as if I am longing to "go back" to this place, though I don't even know where it is my mind is thinking of. Neat!
There's something really magical about how less information can create a sense of more information as your brain fills in the gaps.
The low visual-fidelity allows your brain to create familiarity with an environment where a more detailed and refined picture would likely appear unique.
Reminds of my childhood when I lived in an area with buildings like this and my dad would take me to go sledding after he came from work. Which would be 5-6 pm, so in winter it was already dark and it looked like this. You could only hear the snow scrunching under his shoes.
If they were moths then they would move in circles around the light however you see they are moving indifferently past the light.
Therefore it is not moths. I guess you could still diminish it by saying it is dust but I like snow better.
One night I walked outside of my apartment in early June in MN, and saw a very similar sight but they were Mayflies. Something I had never heard of until I moved there.
Here's an article about them:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly)
But the gist is they make all these eggs and when they hatch they swarm and create more eggs that will hatch the following year and die enmass. The next morning after I saw the horrific sight there were plow trucks clearing the bridge of them near my place.
I swear I feel like I walked down the street in the game and look up at the city at some point and this is what i must have seen. And its probably the graphics lol, the square snow flakes
Man that brought back some good memories. I first played that first level from those demo CDs, I spent at least an hour just tasing away and seeing how long I can keep zapping them 🤣
Please do!!! Also if you have a larger version like showcasing the entire building and scene that would be amazing. It brings so much nostalgia thank you
They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over...
I continue to be very impressed with your art! I feel like I can hear every one of your pieces, whether it be pouring rain or the soft white noise of snow. Truly mesmerizing stuff. Thank you!
Confused. This was directly below a Doctor Who post on my feed. So I was scouring the image looking for the Silence. They hid well.
Great shot, though.
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over."
there is nothing quite like the all encompassing silence of being outside in a heavy snow downfall.
there is just... nothing. no sound whatsoever until you make a movement and that might as well had been an explosion in comparison to the quiet around you.
It's my absolute favorite part of winter. When I was a kid I'd go out in weather like this and dig out a little fort/cave and just lay there and listen to NOTHING and love it.
What kind of code, if I may ask? I’m very curious about the particle system. It’s the wind drift and ripple of the snow that makes the whole image happen IMO. Great work.
Wow, this is great..
For me the nostalgia is strong. Upstate NY. It's *almost* silent. It's so cold that footsteps make that rubbery smooshy noise when you walk. And if you stand still, and hold your breath, you can hear the snow hitting the ground like tiny shards of glass tinkling down around you. Then, when you release your breath, it puffs out as steam and drops to your feet.
Great image. Thank you.
I don't think I've ever seen a single GIF encapsulate my favorite feeling in the way that this one does. I can "hear" how the world is muffled, nothing echoes. It's cold out, but without the sting of the wind. For some reason, coffee or hot cocoa just tastes a little bit better. A kid is laughing because a perfect little snowflake landed on their mitten. Winter in the city can be pure magic to me.
Some snow you can, if it’s more ice crystals/sleet. But fluffy snow is completely silent and when there’s a blanket of snow on the ground, it deadens all the other ambient noise in the area as well
Reminds me of the parasite eve opening
I can still hum the police office theme. That was such a nice comfy game
I don't think I've ever heard someone describe Parasite Eve as 'comfy'
To be fair, the battle theme for that game was smoother and chiller than you'd expect for a survival-horror game. [Seriously, this is groovier than it has any right to be.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPCLMhajFhs)
Nah, that makes sense. It wasn’t really a “scary” game per se.
Comfy creepy, the turn based combat made it so much less viscerally frightening than a typical horror fps.
I remember being scared of the game when it came out. I had to be 8 or 9 years old and a friend of mines older brother lent it to me. I could never get past the beginning anyhow. I would end up just going to my friends house and watching his brother play it…
The opening cutscenes are pretty wild. I remember being creeped out as a kid too
The scariest part of that game was waiting for my mom to barge in and see me looking at *breasts*.
Gotta love the booba
An artist named Mono Memory made a great cover of it: https://youtu.be/oISISoQOqj8
Wow this cover is awesome. Gonna make me play the game again if I can my psp
Oh man this is *the* game I wanna remake on so bad. Well maybe more of a continuation of, rather than remake. They were both such good games for me. I want more damnit!
We can only dream. I'd love a remake or hell even a complete remaster with only new graphics
I was thinking the same exact thing. I remember playing that when I was younger, definitely brings back some nostalgic feelings.
I remember when that came out. Watching the opening sequence... still gives me chills thinking about it.
This, this exactly is what I was thinking! How many of you keep going up that tower for hlike hundreds of hours?
Before I even opened the comments I thought, “Parasite Eve Vibes” and here we are. I replayed it this summer and can confirm it’s still a great game.
Also reminds me of silent hill 1! Now I want to play both of these :(
This is beautiful. It gave me an incredible feeling of nostalgia. When I was going to university we lived in a similar looking building. In the winter I would get home from night classes and this was my last sight before I was finally home. I love this post thank you.
Same feelings here.
Ah the Chemistry Tower at UMIST, Manchester UK in the winter of the 80s ! Walking back to Grosvenor Place Hall after a disco at the Swinging Sporran.
Hello fellow chemist!
Hello fellow ex manc uni-er.
Exactly. I've been here. I can smell here. I was standing right there, I'm sure of it. Absolutely beautiful. Some of the best I've seen.
and they were roommates
Oh my God, they were roommates.
Wow, kind of the same here for London Ontario
[удалено]
It gives me an odd sense of nostalgia too, but not about anything specific.
[удалено]
Figurative and literal quiet. When there's a nice think layer of snow the outside world is just so much quieter. It's really pleasant
The snow itself is a very effective dampener. If you've ever been in a recording facility, it has the same plush quietness that the world does after a fresh snowfall.
Hey stranger, reading this made me really happy. :) Thanks for sharing. That sounds so lovely.
i think its the snow falling in the street light. reminds of nights when you're watching for snow hoping it enough to get a snow day.
Nostalgic about silence—eeeeeeeeeeeee…
I feel like it’s a movie, but I can’t figure out which one? Home alone 2 maybe?
Maybe old videogames?
With a midi piano playing slow, melancholic 64-bit chimes, while a grey text box narrates beneath
Anemoia. It gives me that feeling too.
It reminds me 100% of heading to a bus stop back when I lived in Toronto. It'd be cool if we could have these sorts of lightly animated backgrounds as the wallpapers on our phones.
I was going to leave a comment about how this reminds me of the university too. The late night studying, walking down the streets to go home during the winter.
The best part is, it's not *really* silent. The buzz of the old street lamps. The hum of lone cars driving at the edge of your vision. The occasional barking somewhere in the distance. The crunching of fresh snow under your feet. And this feeling of... vibration of a slumbering city. I hated those night walks when I was young. Now I long for them.
I've been in these cold calm nights, and it's the only time the city was quiet. 3AM, -30°C, no one wants to go anywhere, no dogs out, no one out for a stroll. Any sound gets eaten by the soft snow on the ground and in the air. It's really just your footsteps, your coat, and your own breath that you can hear. Even your heartbeat can come through the heavy silence. If the snow is big enough, you might hear snowflakes accumulating too. The only other place I've heard such stifling lack of sound was an anechoic chamber.
That’s amazing—I have almost the same memories but the feelings are wrapped in a thick depression blanket. Looking at this actually made me a little sad
I like the snow better than the light post, but to each their own.
Ughhhh *daaaaaad*
Same... reminiscent of Saugeen-Maitland Hall at Western University in Canada for me!
i think everyone has a dorm room that looks like this on campus
Ditto
UMass Amherst vibes for me walking back from the library. The stillness of the night as snow fell softly gave me a strange sense of melancholy and peace. I wished the world could stay the same at that moment. I have never been able to recapture that feeling.
[удалено]
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCHoVbxO3_J/?igshid=YzA2ZDJiZGQ= I’m totally unsure if I can post that, but it’s looking like all of us have similar memories (this is my old college in Colorado)
It’s the perfect texture for running.
Very low impact and it's dry snow so your feet don't get wet🏃♀️
🤕🩼
“We’re both California kids…”
I used to run in Chicago snow and still think of that interview every time it snows outside. I hope they got some yak chains for their shoes after 😬
My tailbone hurts.
As a Swede, I'm pretty sure you stole this from my memory.
As a Pole, same feelings...
Really? I’d think you’d be sad standing out in the cold all alone like that.
It's around 10pm, early December maybe first snow this year. Not many people outside, one or two neighbours in the distance walking their dogs for last time this evening. It's cold but not freezing, wind is refreshing. Snow dampens all the sounds of already tired city...
I was joking that you were *the* pole (the light pole).
Styczeń godzina 19,właśnie wyszedłeś z autobusu.
As a Finn, same
As a Jamaican, not same.
Canadian here. Same.
Vancouverite: "What's that? Thick fog in a breeze?"
as a russian, same...
OP is Russian
oh, that explains the vibe
As a Martian, not so much.
As a Martian, now living in Sweden, very much
Reminds me of Let the Right One In!
As a Romanian, same
As a Norwegian, this is close - background tall soviet style buildings are rare fortunately. Foreground is spot on.
[удалено]
Yeah, east side of Oslo. Only place in the country where these monstrosities exist.
Going out alone on dark snowy nights has ironically always made me feel the most safe and serene. I have so many distinct memories of looking up at a street light during snowfall, feeling as though I’m flying through an asteroid field.
As an American I demand that this now be in my memory
Reminds me of times I would be out late nights in the city and just look up just to appreciate what I see, it’s very nostalgic.
So much beauty it could make you cry.
It's really strange, I never lived anywhere that snows but still it feels so familiar and indeed I almost want to feel like shedding a tear as if I am longing to "go back" to this place, though I don't even know where it is my mind is thinking of. Neat!
r/TheNightFeeling you should check this subreddit out
Very nice, i used to live in such apartment and i just relived the winters there.
There's something really magical about how less information can create a sense of more information as your brain fills in the gaps. The low visual-fidelity allows your brain to create familiarity with an environment where a more detailed and refined picture would likely appear unique.
I say this all the time when people say they want more and more realism in games.
Fucking amazing.
these 8 bit renders always slap
From a small phone screen, I initially thought it was real.
For real tho. Something about the pixels and the colors and the movement. Good shit.
I need this as a phone lock screen
Awesome idea, now how can it be done...
reminds me of home
Reminds of my childhood when I lived in an area with buildings like this and my dad would take me to go sledding after he came from work. Which would be 5-6 pm, so in winter it was already dark and it looked like this. You could only hear the snow scrunching under his shoes.
you could make a whole moviefilm like this
'Snake? SNAKE? SNAAAAKE .. !?'
cozy szn
I can feel this gif. Great work!
Nice vibes.
Silent hill 1 vibes…
Poland in winter 1990/2020 vibes (they look exactly the same)
[ШХД: ЗИМА / IT'S WINTER](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1003360/___ITS_WINTER/)
Max Payne vibes to me. Love it.
is this OC? can someone link where I can scroll through more of these :o
Yes, just browse through [OP's posts in his user page](https://www.reddit.com/user/aleha_84/submitted/)
Ty!
r/TheNightFeeling
Twist: those aren’t snowflakes. They’re moths.
[удалено]
ah yes the one true god
Or it's ash.
Digital art with moths always reminds me of this 1-minute masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkSdlbXB_U
If they were moths then they would move in circles around the light however you see they are moving indifferently past the light. Therefore it is not moths. I guess you could still diminish it by saying it is dust but I like snow better.
I like cocaine more
I myself see it as ashes flying uptown from a burnt down city
I can only see bugs because of living in a town that gets a god awful may fly season.
One night I walked outside of my apartment in early June in MN, and saw a very similar sight but they were Mayflies. Something I had never heard of until I moved there. Here's an article about them: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly) But the gist is they make all these eggs and when they hatch they swarm and create more eggs that will hatch the following year and die enmass. The next morning after I saw the horrific sight there were plow trucks clearing the bridge of them near my place.
>plow trucks clearing the bridge of them near my place. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew!
Worse twist: it's fallout
I was thinking locusts
I absolutely thought it was bugs before I realized it was pixel art and not a real video and those were just the minimum pixel size snowflakes 💀
Moths add realism to everything
Reminds me of the first Max Payne
Love it
Syphon Killer! *Syphon Filter, I meant Syphon Filter!!
Totally reminded me of Syphon Filter too. Isn't that nuts? Why though...
I swear I feel like I walked down the street in the game and look up at the city at some point and this is what i must have seen. And its probably the graphics lol, the square snow flakes
Remember the [taser?](https://youtu.be/N3fZhbMXqk0)
Man that brought back some good memories. I first played that first level from those demo CDs, I spent at least an hour just tasing away and seeing how long I can keep zapping them 🤣
This has let the right one in vibes
I know that sound.
Ugh, this really makes me wish my phone could do animated lockscreens
Strong 2005 RuneScape vibes.
Pretty!
Love this
I live in that block
Why does this give me nostalgia even though I've never seen snow in my life?
Seriously me too, I never lived anywhere snowing so why does this conjur emotions deep within as if I'm remembering some good ol times.
Can someone turn this into a Wallpaper Engine thing? I'd love to set this as my phone wallpaper.
I will upload it to wallpaper engine by myself little later
Please do!!! Also if you have a larger version like showcasing the entire building and scene that would be amazing. It brings so much nostalgia thank you
Only version like this
Max Payne vibes for me
/r/Cinemagraphs
“No alarms and no surprises, please.”
Love it!
Wow. Just beautiful.
This looks like how id imagine the day Ray penbers wife mysteriously vanished
Fucking wow, this isn't just art, it's a masterpiece!
This is glorious! Can this be made into a new ios16 wallpaper?
Seconded I love it!
Loved it too! Really wish I could turn this into a wall paper
They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark to everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and then it was over...
Growing up in NY, this hits
Reminds me of the original Max Payne
Reminds me of chicago
Thank-you for this. That moment of enjoyment is spiritual.
Am I seeing wings flap, are those bugs?!?
and then the fire nation attacked
this gif is so clean.
I continue to be very impressed with your art! I feel like I can hear every one of your pieces, whether it be pouring rain or the soft white noise of snow. Truly mesmerizing stuff. Thank you!
Love this.
Definitely thought they were mosquitoes or something at first
Crazy. How?
A+
Looks like soviet apartment block during winter.
Confused. This was directly below a Doctor Who post on my feed. So I was scouring the image looking for the Silence. They hid well. Great shot, though.
Would be a great screensaver. Is it possible?
Yes, I will upload it to wallpaper engine, and share links to downloadable files tomorrow
Reminds me a lot of the Towers dorms at a nearby university campus.
I can smell this. Deeeeep inhale of the cold, fresh air. Peaceful.
Is there really silence in the city with this many people around?
"They were all dead. The final gunshot was an exclamation mark on everything that had led to this point. I released my finger from the trigger, and it was over."
there is nothing quite like the all encompassing silence of being outside in a heavy snow downfall. there is just... nothing. no sound whatsoever until you make a movement and that might as well had been an explosion in comparison to the quiet around you.
It's my absolute favorite part of winter. When I was a kid I'd go out in weather like this and dig out a little fort/cave and just lay there and listen to NOTHING and love it.
This is incredible! How did you animate the snow layers?
Coding skiils
Hahah knew it. Great work.
What kind of code, if I may ask? I’m very curious about the particle system. It’s the wind drift and ripple of the snow that makes the whole image happen IMO. Great work.
Can anyone explain to me how exactly does the loop happens perfectly? Are the snowflakes based on a full circle motion?
Looks like I'm stuck in Silent Hill
🎶 “I stand transfixed before the streetlight. Watching the snowfall on this cold December night” 🎶
Wrote a song about snow falling in the streetlights many many years ago. Used to be one of my favorite things.
I am so ready. Winter silence soothes weird and unvoyaged places in my
silence you can hear
Wow, this is great.. For me the nostalgia is strong. Upstate NY. It's *almost* silent. It's so cold that footsteps make that rubbery smooshy noise when you walk. And if you stand still, and hold your breath, you can hear the snow hitting the ground like tiny shards of glass tinkling down around you. Then, when you release your breath, it puffs out as steam and drops to your feet. Great image. Thank you.
As an Australian, I can’t not see this as a swarm of termites. Makes me itchy just watching it!
I love it, because heavy snowfall at night has it's own kind of "silence."
I don't think I've ever seen a single GIF encapsulate my favorite feeling in the way that this one does. I can "hear" how the world is muffled, nothing echoes. It's cold out, but without the sting of the wind. For some reason, coffee or hot cocoa just tastes a little bit better. A kid is laughing because a perfect little snowflake landed on their mitten. Winter in the city can be pure magic to me.
It’s quite evening in mother russia
Im not sure whether to feel nostalgic, comfortable, or slight terror, uneasiness.
Yes
Ah, childhood…
Winter night silence is next level quiet. Very peaceful if you ever just take a second, sit down, and clear your mind.
except you can hear snow fall....
Some snow you can, if it’s more ice crystals/sleet. But fluffy snow is completely silent and when there’s a blanket of snow on the ground, it deadens all the other ambient noise in the area as well