Demo zum Echtzeit-Strategiespiel (mit Zeitsprüngen) Achron
Achron is a futuristic RTS featuring three species with vastly different playing styles where you create your buildings and army, explore the map, expand to acquire more resources, upgrade your tech tree, and engage in combat with your foes.
Timeline and Timewaves
Like many other games, Achron allows the player to view an overhead map of the surrounding area. However, Achron also shows a map of the timeline. If the player is attacked at a certain point in time, the timeline will show the amount of damage received at that point by a large amount of red on that portion of the timeline. The timeline also shows information including damage dealt and chronoports. Being able to see the amount of available resources at any point in time helps the player figure out the best points in time to construct more units.
Information on the timeline can be lumped into three categories:
-A map of time: "Your opponent will attack you in 1 minute"
-Inform strategy: "You should have taken advantage of your resources and built a larger army 2 minutes ago, go change the past"
-Changes to the timeline: "Your opponent just undid an entire battle in the past"
Changes in history are not instantly propagated through the timeline, but instead are brought forward via evenly separated timewaves, giving the player opportunities to plan and react to those past changes before the next time wave sweeps by. These changes from the revised history are not reflected on the players' screens until the proper timewave passes the player.
