We’re always joking around here at what a time paradox the world of mobile gaming is. So often we’ll be talking about a game and say something along the lines of “Oh yeah that came out a few months ago I think" only to look up the actual release date and be stunned that it was actually in fact many years ago. In my mind, it feels like only yesterday that artist and filmmaker David O’Reilly released his controversial iOS project Mountain ($0.99) to the App Store. In actuality it was more than 4 years ago in the summer of 2014. Wow! However, just because it’s been out for a while doesn’t mean Mr. O’Reilly hasn’t stopped working on Mountain and just today he’s released a big version 2.0 update which adds in all sorts of new features, all of which are on display in the action-packed trailer below.
So in case you aren’t in the know, Mountain is a weird interactive art experience where you don’t even really do anything. You’ll draw a few pictures after you fire up the app and then you’ll get a randomly generated mountain to call your very own. Time passes in the game, things happen to the mountain, and that’s about it. You can diddle around with a little virtual keyboard to play some tunes and you can somewhat interact with the variety of strange objects that might crash into your mountain. But by and large Mountain is something you sit back and watch, and things may or may not hap...