Archon - Time Travelling Strategy (???)

[Jintor]

My brain hurts when I try and the read the article, but here's a link regardless.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/27/epochal-achron-meta-time-strategy/

Things you can’t do in an RTS generally include: attacking your opponent in the past, undoing the future actions of your units, building things in the future and sending the back to a previous point in a game. These are all things you can do in Achron. The developers, who unveiled their idea at the 2009 GDC Experimental Gameplay Sessions explain it thus: “Achron is the world’s first meta-time strategy game, a real-time strategy game where players and units can jump to and play at different times simultaneously and independently.”

What the hell?

 

[Darkside55]

Where is Sarah Connor?

 

[MJ12]

I don't know if this is retarded or awesome.

 

[Lucid]

**** this game. :frown:

 

[Eejit]

It's all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

 

[Reginald]

It's all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey.

I appreciate this.

Someone posted a thread about this a couple of weeks back but they accompanied it with videos. It was pretty cool.

 

[swan_song1973]

if this works, it could be good.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Yes. Problem is I have no idea how it can work.

But awesome temporal mechanics seem to be all the rage right now, and frankly I'm not complaining - having gone from 2D to 3D during the nineties, it's about time we had another dimension to play with.

 

[jverne]

i don't know anything that i despise more that time travel. i hate the concept of time traveling even in RL...it's just too...emm...too much for logic.

 

[cabbs]

God damnit guys, I made a thread about this a month ago. And mine had videos.

I quite like the ideas, and the being able to beat people from the future and/or past in an rts game.

Most likely, like in most other strategy games, ill spend most of my time getting my ass kicked by people who can play these timelines and stuff like goddamn violins.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Wow. CHANGE THE THREAD TITLE NOW. I got so excited when I saw Archon!!!

One of the best games ever!! My C64 ran the crap out of that day in and day out for months!! Some of the best multiplayer ever!

This ACHRON stuff on the other hand looks really ambitious, but I have yet to be convinced that this is a good idea anywhere but in theory.

 

[Dekstar]

This makes my head hurt, but I can totally see people adapting to this style of play. Really I'm not impressed so much by the game itself, but rather that I know people will be able to actually adapt their brains to understand this to an incredibly proficient level.

 

[Jintor]

God damnit guys, I made a thread about this a month ago. And mine had videos.

I quite like the ideas, and the being able to beat people from the future and/or past in an rts game.

Most likely, like in most other strategy games, ill spend most of my time getting my ass kicked by people who can play these timelines and stuff like goddamn violins.

click ze button for vidjeos

 

[cabbs]

Where'd you think I got them from?

 

[ríomhaire]

If this game has a good SP campaign I'm sold. Also, if this time-travel thing works out well I hope the game gets a good mod scene.