Water Clock Screensaver

Most of you pull out your phone or look at your wristwatch either to tell the time or out of pure boredom.  Water Clock Screensaver is an app that will prove that even watching a clock to tell the time can be a beautiful experience

Unlike many other 3D screensavers or animated wallpapers, this app doesn't showcase the 3D rendering by rotating or changeable camera angles, but rather through the clever use of lighting effects such as pixel shading and drop shadows. These are further enhanced but subtle effects such as the flickering lighting that emanates from an unseen source, or the green glow of a firefly that occasionally wanders into the screen,

The textures are of the highest quality and are done in a way that will make you believe all the gears and spring are made of either brass or gold. The sound effects are not something to be ignored either. The music is uplifting, with a certain medieval feel to it, while the environmental sounds such as the flowing water or ticking of the clock might make you believe you are actually there. The last elements that cement the idea that this clock is as real as possible are the animations. If you pay close attention, you'll see that the gears move in unison with the hands of the clock and not randomly animated as you might first think.

The app runs smoothly on pretty much any modern system in screensaver mode. However, depending on your system's requirements, you may or may not experience slight performance drops when running the app in animated wallpaper mode. To counter this, several graphics and SFX features can be enabled, adjusted or disabled altogether from the "Settings" menu.

All aspects considered, Water Clock Screensaver is a good animated wallpaper and screensaver app that impresses because it takes a basic idea, which is showing you the time, and manages to turn it into a visual masterpiece.