The real question is HOW do we want time travel? Upgraded Delorian? Old-timey British Police box? Fancy art nouveau design with upholstered seat? HOW do we want time travel!
Guys, guys, the nerdest gift was just given to me. A #ProfessorElemental verse, all about me saving him from a time vortex. My wife made me film a reaction video and I've edited it into a video to share since it's just so much silly fun:
Hello, myth lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Time Travel. Which myths feature time traveling? Write out a story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday. See you soon! ⏱️⏱️⏱️
Murphy’s Inc. is an audio #scienceFiction#adventure that follows an organization led by Murphy with her two agents, Michael and Daphne, as they and their rag-tag team travel through time to steal precious artifacts. Along the way, they’ll meet famous historical figures, weave through danger, and experience historical events shown only in dusty, faded textbooks. Intrigue, thrills, and betrayal follow as they jump deep into the past.
I like to joke that whenever the authors of vintage #ChooseYourOwnAdventure books ran into a storytelling challenge, they fell back on the trope of time travel. Didn't see it coming in a ninja book this week!
Not surprising when you recall that the first #CYOA is "The Cave of Time" ⏳
(📷: "Return of the Ninja" by Jay Leibold. Choose Your Own Adventure #92, 1989)
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Exactly two weeks from now, our book A SECOND CHANCE FOR YESTERDAY is/was released by Solaris Books (depending on which direction you're headed through time).
Watching the Sarah Conner Chronicles at the moment because I love time travel sci-fi and the "fight against big tech" feels very pertinent.
While I have been enjoying the moral quandaries the characters have been forced to reckon with, the constant reinforcement of the Great Man Theory is hella frustrating.
Am only on Episode 4 so far, so I'm yet to see if this will be too much of an issue for me to keep watching it.
I think that one of the reasons I am finding this especially frustrating is a result of reading @annaleen 's The Future of Another Timeline which was so good at confronting and challenging the Great Man Theory.
As far as I can remember, the best that the Terminator film series managed to achieve, when attempting to move beyond the Great Man Theory deceit embedded in the franchise, was to shift it over to "Great Woman Theory" instead.
When Elizabeth makes a discovery that throws her entire identity into question, she uses a time machine found in an abandoned house. As she catapults through time, she encounters a mysterious abandoned child, an elite gymnast preparing for Olympic Trials, and an enigmatic woman who seems to know more than she’s revealing.
CRYPTOBIOSIS. The ability of life forms to remain in a suspended dormant state for long periods of time. This Siberian worm lasted 46,000 years in the permafrost before wiggling back to life.
I'm not one for "New Year's resolutions", but I am one for overly ambitious projects.
For 2023, Project365 is "One New Game Per Day".
Given that I have 634 unplayed games in my Steam account and {mumble} unredeemed bundle Steam keys, there's a reason my unplayed collection is tagged "Pile of Shame".
I'll pin this to my profile, and give a brief summary here each day (or x, if I miss x days due to work or stuff).
I'll play 15-30 minutes of (at least) one new game I've never played before (or played less than 15 minutes of). I'll give every game at least 15 minutes, even if I hate every minute of it.
I'm also open to suggestions; if you reply to this thread with a game, I'll schedule it, or tell you what I thought of it.
One of the things that's come up is that I have a bunch of games that I've played once, and not touched again.
The Forgotten City is a first-person narrative-driven adventure involving time loops, and an ancient Roman city.
It's the third game in this month's Humble Bundle, and if you're a fan of narrative adventures (eg. Firewatch) or time travel gameplay, this might be the game for you.
It was a bit slow at first; I was 10 minutes in, and I was thinking it wasn't really a game for me.
...and that was three and a half hours ago.
The graphics are pretty good, the sound design is great, but the narrative is excellent.
However, I'm not going to write a longer review. The problem with this game, and it's highlighted upfront by the devs is that to say too much about it spoils the game for those who haven't played it.
Thus, please consider my three and three quarter hours of straight playtime, and having reached one of four endings my way of saying that The Forgotten City is: