Playing with Time

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Playing with Time

• In Games

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Time in Games

• Time often used to establish mechanics.
• Ticking clock
• puzzles
• pacing (melee, race)
• support strategies
• just-in-time finishing moves

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Time in Games

• Zelda WindWaker
• Max Payne I II
• Prince of Persia The Sands of Time
• Beyond Good and Evil
• Viewtiful Joe

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Max Payne I II

• Use bullet time during combat

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Control

• Coordinate movements
• Improved targeting and dexterity
• Help plan and execute combat

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Control

• Sense of invulnerability
• Increased sense of drama
• Max Payne isn't about fumbling for clips and
  putting tourniquets on wounds it's about
  finesse, style, and fast pacing.

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Max Payne II

• Gradient Bullet time
• World gets slower
• Max gets faster
• Superhero?
• Less realistic combat
• More amazing feats
• Jury still out

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Prince of Persia

• Rewind time using sand resource

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Movement Combat

• Do things over
• Do them right
• Pause in the action... instead of a break

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Movement Combat

• Rewind and Consequence?
• Killing the player
• Reviving the player
• Jury still out

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Viewtiful Joe

• Speed or slow time for combat or puzzles

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Task Reward

• Fluid combination of
• puzzles
• time tactics
• powerups
• Variable goals and play experience

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Task Reward

• Getting into character
• Viewtiful behavior rewarded
• Player choice player style investment

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Narrative

• Beyond local control
• Sense of time passing
• Changes over time
• Varying consequences

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Time-based gaming

• Seems like the year of the time-based game
• Looking forward to seeing next years games!!!