Comments on: Chronotron

By: Club Penguin Cheats

Club Penguin Cheats — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:32:54 +0000

I think my fondest current dream is to make a turn-based space-sim in which relativity is taken into account. Your turns occur at regular intervals with respect to your local clock, but that may not run at the same rate as everyone else’s.

By: zima

zima — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:51:48 +0000

Reminds me of great Net Yaroze game Time Slip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc_quc8BT0o

From the author:
“I actually managed to get on the cover of the Official Playstation Magazine in the UK. The game was called “Time Slip” and every 60 seconds you went back in time, meaning you could encounter earlier version of yourself which you had to avoid. It was a puzzle game really because you had to make use of the multiple copies of yourself to open doors and things like that.”

I was really hooked up by this one for a long time…the thing that this one didn’t have any obvious bugs helped a lot.

BTW, since it could be dangerous here to discuss only Net Yaroze game in comment ;) (especially since I imply it’s more bug free)…seems somebody once made a copy for PC (but didn’t recover his files yet…)
http://lightdev.wordpress.com/projects/timeslip/

By: Jim Greer

Jim Greer — Mon, 12 May 2008 20:54:57 +0000

Thanks for the writeup! The developer fixed the bugs with past selves getting out of sync, btw.

By: KBKarma

KBKarma — Sun, 11 May 2008 08:37:28 +0000

Niiiice!

I’m stuck on 18. Not due to any difficulties with the timing, but because it requires PIN-POINT accuracy. Also, Bonus 5 has me in knots. LOGIC knots.

Fun, though.

By: The Shed

The Shed — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:15:49 +0000

Holy shit awesome. I was sold at the first two paragraphs. I’m playing this.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:51:45 +0000

Pretty fun game.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:28:40 +0000

aiusepsi: have you played Relativistic Asteroids?

By: Cooper

Cooper — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:50:23 +0000

Cute, it reminded me of ‘Timebot’ http://casualgameplay.com/cgdc3/?gameID=6
Also, check out Super Earth Defense Game!, timerider and some of the others at JIG’s game deisgn competition on ‘Replay’
http://jayisgames.com/archives/2007/06/game_design_competition_3.php

By: brog

brog — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:08:27 +0000

aiusepsi – I recommend reading Stephen Baxter’s Exultant.

By: Grant Hutchins

Grant Hutchins — Fri, 09 May 2008 05:20:48 +0000

Also, compete with yourself: http://www.rrrrthats5rs.com/games/the-road-less-taken/

By: yaa

yaa — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:58:48 +0000

aiusepsi – make sure the orders propagate at lightspeed too. Then it’d make sense to load your command staff on a relativistic rocket and chase the front line, getting the orders there faster at a cost of not being able to make so many (and completely screwing your oversight of any second fronts).

By: aiusepsi

aiusepsi — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:05:59 +0000

There’s something about games which involve time-travel and avoiding causality violation that just make me all tingly inside.

If I really have a lot of time on my hands, I could model it with general relativity too, so then getting close to a black hole would do Very Bad Things to your turn frequency…

Yeh, I’m a huge nerd. There’s no point in denying it.