Time Travel Concept

[Red Giant]

time travel

I'm just going to have floating narrative sentences upon entering each screen, being purposefully ambiguous as to what exactly happened.

... Braid?

[SaiKar]

... Braid?

Hah, indeed. Great game, terribly confusing storyline to the point where you just wanted to ignore it and could easily do so.

[zuhane]

So...I've been running through this idea in my head, and everyone I've asked said that it's brilliant.
I'm wanting to make it, but I'm needing some people to help, mainly in the graphics department.
So...here's the concept:
Time Travelling puzzle game.
Not in the Reverse Timeline vein at all, more like jumping in-between eras.
In case that's hard to understand, think this:
There's a ledge you need to get past.
So, you jump back in time, and find a seed.
You plant the seed, and go back to the "present", and see a sapling.
Go back into the future, and there's a tree.
Climb the tree, achieve goal.

Anyone have any suggestions for graphics style/want to jump in?

Oh, it's going to be a platformer.

Have you played Zelda: Oracle of Ages of the Gameboy Colour? That portrays
that idea perfectly and it works. You lose all your equipment and have to keep
travelling back and forth through time to get it back.

[fruckert]

...I don't understand what's so hard to understand about a game where you manipulate the past to do stuff in the future.

Also, I HAVE A STORY.
KINDOF.
...yeah.

Also, I'm currently building the engine.

[Mr.Dark666]

Hasn't this been done many times?

I know I recognize it, but I can't remember any games which actually does it 

[Zerlina]

So...I've been running through this idea in my head, and everyone I've asked said that it's brilliant.
I'm wanting to make it, but I'm needing some people to help, mainly in the graphics department.
So...here's the concept:
Time Travelling puzzle game.
Not in the Reverse Timeline vein at all, more like jumping in-between eras.
In case that's hard to understand, think this:
There's a ledge you need to get past.
So, you jump back in time, and find a seed.
You plant the seed, and go back to the "present", and see a sapling.
Go back into the future, and there's a tree.
Climb the tree, achieve goal.

Anyone have any suggestions for graphics style/want to jump in?

Oh, it's going to be a platformer.

No, but seriously, good idea You should try playing Sunset over Imdahl- they used time travel really well in that, and I think it was RM from what I remember.

[boozer]

No, but seriously, good idea You should try playing Sunset over Imdahl- they used time travel really well in that, and I think it was RM from what I remember.

I loved this game :O

[Angel Walter]

Myst rocks. But on a note closer to the topic, I think that if you do it well enough it doesn't really matter how common time travel is in video games.

[Rahl]

Myst rocks. But on a note closer to the topic, I think that if you do it well enough it doesn't really matter how common time travel is in video games.

I have to agree, I really like the concepts. I think Ocorina of Time did it beautifully. God I love those games.