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Achron — an RTS With Time Travel

Posted by Soulskill on from the flux-capacitor-not-required dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As much as I'm looking forward to StarCraft 2, there's a new RTS gaming tech that has me even more enthused. The Escapist Magazine has posted interviews and footage of the upcoming 'meta-time strategy game' Achron, which was announced at GDC earlier this year. It's a multiplayer RTS where you can send things through time. The official site has some gameplay footage as well, and it looks like their tech is useful outside of gaming."

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  1. Re:Chronobelt in RA3 by improfane · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The chrono belt probably just logs the character's X,Y every 5 seconds. This does not actually imitate time travel or solve time paradoxes. That chronobelt does not undo what you just did 5 seconds before!

    When you go back in time and change something or forward, you have to solve a paradox of something happening.

    Achron does this by running both possibilities simultaneously. It's definitely novel and fresh.

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