The idea is nice, the "pathfinding" is broken enough for the game to be unplayable. Seriously, they just go directly towards their goal and get stuck everywhere.
Actually, it has been much improved in more recent versions. Try it again.
Achron, time shifting RTS
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#12I was going to buy it, but it still seems to be not available for Linux. Also, why isn't this available through Steam?
It's available on Linux (and on Steam, but not Steam for Linux): http://www.achrongame.com/site/buy-and-download.php
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#13Well, skimming that title makes me double-take.
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#14The Flash game Chronotron [1] is also based around time travel and is worth a quick play. [1] http://www.miniclip.com/games/chronotron/en/
Looks like it has kinda similar mechanics to Braid, which is probably the epitome of 2d-time-manipulating-platforming
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#15The Flash game Chronotron [1] is also based around time travel and is worth a quick play. [1] http://www.miniclip.com/games/chronotron/en/
Looks like it has kinda similar mechanics to Braid, which is probably the epitome of 2d-time-manipulating-platforming
Braid looks very cool. Link: http://braid-game.com/
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#16I misread it as Archon and got excited it was a updated version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(computer_game)
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#17I misread it as Archon and got excited it was a updated version of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon_(computer_game)
There is a decent iOS Archon.
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#18The great thing is that the time-altering mechanics actually work really well and they even managed to make a user-friendly UI for what is arguably a rather complicated concept.
However, the actual RTS part is woefully mediocre and has problems such as bad unit AI and bad path-finding. At least this was my impression of v1.0. I guess I should take another look one of these days and see if the numerous patches have improved things.
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#20I was going to buy it, but it still seems to be not available for Linux. Also, why isn't this available through Steam?
It's available on Linux (and on Steam, but not Steam for Linux): http://www.achrongame.com/site/buy-and-download.php
Ahh, no wonder I didn't see it, nor did I see any of this listed first glance on the page you linked to. I wonder if they need to get a real marketing team working for them.