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You walk painted coastlines and a mountain, notice animals, photograph them, and keep what you find in a field notebook. Here’s how it works.
Play the Game No account. Works with mouse, touch or keyboard.A short painted opening plays on your first visit. Then you’re on the trail at Tranøy.
Click or tap the ground where you want to go. Arrow keys or WASD work too.
A flicker in the heather means an animal. Keep walking toward it and the camera rises.
Drag the finder over the animal and press the shutter. You get three frames.
Viewpoint markers open a full picture to search. Close it and you’re back where you stood.
The heart of the walk: noticing something, then holding still.
When an animal appears, a short clue shows first, like “a flicker of white ahead”, then the camera view opens. Drag the viewfinder onto the animal, or nudge it with the arrow keys, and take the photo with the shutter, Space or Enter.
Three frames per encounter. A clean, centred shot keeps the animal at once. Otherwise your best frame of the three counts. Animals that move are harder: a still moment makes a sharper photo, and a bird watched for too long may grow alert and fly off.
Missed one? Nothing is lost. Keep walking and more will appear. The ✕ button lowers the camera.
The small tool row under the walk opens your log, map, camera and photo journal.
Every kept photo lands here, sorted by kind. The log also holds a short in-game guide and the Letters page.
Raise the camera at any time to see the place you’re standing in, with real photographs where one exists.
The map shows the three places on the real coastline. The photo journal collects what you found at viewpoints.
A small “kept” counter on the walk shows how much of the current place you’ve found. It stays quiet until your first keep.
All three are real places in northern Norway, painted as walkable landscapes.
Follow the coast past low rock, white beach and shallow water, then cross the footbridge to Tranøy lighthouse.
Start at the western landing, follow the path below the seabird cliffs, and climb grassy slopes to the lighthouse plateau.
Start at Børvik by Hamnespollen and climb through birch, heather and bare rock to Hamnesfjellet, where the view opens across the fjord.
The game uses today’s real season. Visit in winter and the season views show snow. Open the leaf button at a viewpoint to see the place in the current season.
Painted landscapes, not surveyed maps or hiking routes. Don’t use the game to navigate.
Walk to a bus stop or boat dock on the map and step aboard. The ride plays as a short journey.
Follows the local roads by name, Tranøyveien past Hamnespollen, shortened for the game.
Hornøya is reached by boat from Vardø, far to the north-east. There is no real direct Tranøy ferry, so the passage is shown as compressed coastal travel.
Everything works by click or tap. Keys are optional.
| Action | Mouse / touch | Keyboard |
|---|---|---|
| Menus and tools | Tap a tool | Tab / Shift + Tab to select; Enter to open. While walking: M map, J log, C camera. |
| Walk | Click or tap the ground | ↑ ↓ ← → or W A S D |
| Talk, use, inspect | Tap a speech bubble, viewpoint marker, bus stop or dock | E or Enter when nearby |
| Aim the camera | Drag the viewfinder | Arrow keys or WASD |
| Take a photo | Shutter button | Space or Enter |
| Search a viewpoint | Centre a detail, then hold the ring button | Hold Space or Enter on the ring |
| Close / return | Back arrow or ✕ | Esc |
| Sound | Sound button: “Wildlife & footsteps” and “Wind”, each on or off | Tab to the button |
Yes, it’s free, and there are no accounts or sign-in. You just open the page and walk.
Yes, automatically, as you play. Kept animals, sightings and journey progress are stored in your browser’s local storage on this device. There’s no save button. If your browser blocks storage (some private modes), the game shows “Progress not saved”.
No. Progress isn’t synced or uploaded, so it stays in the browser you played in. Clearing site data in that browser or using a different browser starts you fresh.
Yes. On phones you tap to walk and drag to aim, and the view narrows to fit a portrait screen. It needs a modern browser with JavaScript on.
Wildlife calls, footsteps and the shutter, plus an optional wind drone. Wind starts off and only plays after you switch it on.
The walking landscapes and many viewpoints are illustrations made for AWEBO. Where a real photograph is shown, it carries its own credit, and undated or out-of-season pictures are marked as reference.
The male willow ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus). Its spring call inspired the name. Read more on the AWEBO bird page.
The trail starts at Tranøy.
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