The Flat

"Andy Campbell's 'The Flat' is creepy, no two ways about it. 'The Flat' succeeds in establishing a tone, a grand suspense, that carries the mystery of the piece. There is an urgency, a desperation, a staircase! Your mouse moves the camera lens, and your desperation moves you forward." -- From The New River Journal

"Inspired by the author’s own dreams and experiences, 'The Flat' presents users/readers with a challenging mouse-controlled environment in which narrative fragments left behind by an abandoned building’s previous inhabitants still linger. Through a combination of atmospheric photography, parallax scrolling techniques, snippets of written fiction, and an evocative soundtrack, the work allows various rooms in the flat to be explored by panning around with the mouse; the transient textual narratives themselves often changing and/or progressing when the rooms are revisited. To add to the feeling of tension and urgency, and to encourage the work to be revisited, a timer ticks down in the top right hand corner of the screen before the user/reader is ejected from the narrative and shown a final, enigmatic scene: a white hooded figure in the back garden." -- From ELMCIP