- Genre:
- Puzzle Game
- Single-player
- First Perspective
- Name: O
- Core Gameplay:
- The play needs to control time to go forward by walking clockwise and go backward by walking counter-clockwise. Players need to take the advantage of this ability to find out a way to repair the time.
- Scene
- A circular corridor or road, which is actually a frame of a clock.
- Broken & surrealistic objects → clues
- Radio/tree/poster/river
- Connections
- People cannot feel the flow of time in their dreams. The story in a year can be encapsulated into 5 minutes.
- 庄子认为，生命是气的凝聚，死亡是气的消散。气消散后又会重新凝聚，就会变化成另外一种生物了。世间的生物就是这样生生死死循环轮回，永不停息，所以生并不值得高兴，死也不必哀伤。Zhuangzi believed that life is the condensation of qi and death is the dissipation of qi. The gas dissipates and condenses again, transforming into a different kind of living thing. Life in the world is such a cycle of birth, death and death, never stop.The player will live in an endless loop as Zhuangzi has described.
(⚠️storyline剧透预警⚠️）
- Storylines
- Start: “You” are a clockmaker. The game would begin in a normal-looking bedroom. Suddenly a clock hanging on the wall falls down and smashes into pieces, which signifies the breaking and abnormality of time.
- General Scene: You wake up in a circular hallway and try to find ways to repair the clock.
- Ending: The player will wake up in a room with the repaired clock, but all the same scenes as before so it is hard to tell which one is the reality.
- References
- TENET
- Dr. Strange
- Inception