http://www.tqworld.com

http://a240.g.akamai.net/7/240/51/41d0caef9e6903/www.apple.com/games/articles/2001/04/tranquility/images/tranquility2.jpg

A nice 3d game which is designed to help you relax.  It has a game browser 
which downloads games/levels into it.

The game is Tranquility, and it will take you on a sensual, meditative 
journey the likes of which you've never seen before. Start a new game, and 
you find yourself drifting in a three-dimensional space filled with 
thousands of tiny stars of varying shapes, sizes, and colors. Mesmerized 
by the sights and sounds, you float around, occasionally bouncing off 
objects. In fact, you can even learn how to make music yourself by 
bouncing off the objects the right way.

Most of the game's core feature set depends on a live Internet connection; 
levels come from the net, scores go to the net, etc.  You can play some
levels without a net connection, though.

The current clients for OS 9, OS X, and Windows (linux in 
planning as of Dec. 2002) are available through the download section at http://www.tqworld.com/ .
You get training, free membership access to the daily demo level, and a few other things.
The long-term play mode comes in when you purchase a membership, though.

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If you're sensitive to spinning motion, be careful; this game's got a 
tendency to induce motion sickness.  Lots of spinning and height changes 
and the like.

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Movies of gameplay are available in QuickTime movies; it's helpful for 
trying to figure out what gameplay is like.

3.4MB: http://www.tqworld.com/movies/descend.mov
4.8MB: http://www.tqworld.com/movies/FlyThrough.mov

Screenshots are also available at http://www.tqworld.com/ -- but the 
movies are better than a thousand pictures at explaining it.

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The demos do not do it justice. -- MichaelFinney

Isn't this eerily like that game that hypnotizes and brainwashes all the 
crew of StarTrekTheNextGeneration, bar Wesley because he's too dumb? ;-)

Just think of the spinners as funnels of the black hole variety, and 
you've got it in space instead of on a grid.

''Warning: the constant spinning may make some folk feel violently ill.''

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Please note that in September 2003 a retail 'boxed' version of Tranquility will appear at CompUSA stores in the U.S. -- pricing, street date unknown -- containing a disk of the game, a free player account, and as-of-yet unknown extras. I'll report back when I have it in hand. :) -- BrianKerr