Mountain is a real-time nature simulation game. After giving players a series of prompts described by the artist as “more psychologically invasive than anything Facebook wants to know about you”, a mountain is generated based on the answers. 

This mountain then simply exists, floating in space. Accelerated time progresses through day and night cycles and seasonal changes. Snow might form and melt on the mountain, and plants and trees grow and wither. Randomly, everyday objects may collide with the mountain and then become embedded indefinitely. The mountain periodically offers its thoughts to the player as the game progresses. Whilst some interaction from players is possible, they cannot affect the mountain in any way, and ultimately, the mountain must run its course until it comes to its natural destruction. 

David’s meditative work brings players face-to-face with the arbitrary nature of the universe and our position within it, provoking us to question how much control we have over our own existence.