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The Drift

Before there was a story, there was the drift: the future drawn in dots and lines, era after era. It lives on here for your screens. Download the screensaver, keep it running in a browser tab, or watch the visions that started it all.

Keys: → next scene · H captions · F or double-click for fullscreen

Out now · Thirty minutes of drift

Reverie II

Twenty-four scenes from the original future sketches in four acts, from rain-soaked city canyons to a galaxy that thinks. Slowed down, layered with soft afterimages, never quite the same twice.

24 scenes30 min loopEvery monitorSilent

↓ Windows 10 & 11 · 313 KB Play full screen ↗▶ Watch the video

Install on Windows 10 & 11

Right-click the zip, choose Properties and tick Unblock. The screensaver isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may otherwise warn about it.
Extract it and double-click install.cmd. No admin rights needed.
Pick a wait time in Screen Saver Settings. uninstall.cmd removes it.

Install on macOS

Install the free WebViewScreenSaver: brew install --cask webviewscreensaver, or download it from GitHub.
In System Settings → Screen Saver choose WebViewScreenSaver, open its Options and paste this address:

https://neondriftsaga.com/experience/reverie.html?saver#saverGet WebViewScreenSaver ↗

Keys: ← → change era · 1–9 jump · Space pause the tour · H hide the HUD · F fullscreen

Out now · The original, interactive

The Drift

Where it all began: every era from the first thinking machine in 2029 to the year 10,000, drawn live. Step through the eras with the arrow keys, or leave it touring on its own.

InteractiveEndlessIn your browser

Play full screen ↗Original on Claude ↗

Coming soon

Phone themes

Wallpapers and live themes for Android and iPhone, cut from the same scenes: the rain canyon, the neon tide, the slow sky tether. Join the list and you'll hear the day they land.

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Films · reveries · origins

Visions

All visions →

Short films of the future the saga grew from: the film, the slow Reveries, and the original sketches. They keep their own dates, separate from the story's timeline.

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Film

A History of the Future

Eight thousand years in two minutes and twenty seconds: from the first thinking machine in 2029 to a galaxy that thinks. The world of Neon Drift, era by era, drawn only in dots and lines, with an original score written as code.

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Ambient

Reverie II — thirty minutes of drift

Twenty-four scenes from the original future sketches in four acts (City, Earth Reborn, The System, The Stars), slowed down and left to dream. Seventy-five seconds each, with an ambient score whose voice changes with every act. The same piece runs as the Neon Drift screensaver.

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Ambient

Reverie I — ten minutes of drift

A slow, dreamlike remix of the original future scenes: Rain Canyon, Maglev Dream, Transit Halo, Moiré Sun, Neon Tide, Warp Bloom, Thinking Lattice and Grid City. Eight scenes, seventy-five seconds each, with an ambient score. Also exists as a screensaver.

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Origins

The Original Drift

Where it started: twelve eras of the future drawn in glowing dots and thin lines, before there was a story. These sketches use their own dates; the novel's canon timeline begins in 2029.

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2049

Spinner Lanes

Flying cars, neon signs, and it never stops raining.

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2061

Maglev Line

The trains leave the ground. An ad blimp still promises a new life off-world.

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2074

Drone Bloom

Nine hundred drones lift off the rooftops and paint the sky instead of fireworks.

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2090

Hyperloop

Cairo to Dakar in four hours. Pods fly through vacuum tubes past solar fields that run to the horizon.