Story Background
Main character's father is a great inventor, but one day he disappeared after his experiment went wrong and cause the whole world's time unstably twisted.
Now a person would grow old in one second and became infant in the next second; An apple would be rotted and then back to seed again; The looks of the cities constantly switched between medieval, modern, and futuristic structures.
Only the main character was protected from the time influence by an old watch his father left him. He decided to find out where his father was, and the truth behind this horrific failure.
Game Mechanic
1. Time manipulation
Here "time stabilization" may be more accurate. The main character is always protected by the watch, so his look and properties in his bag will never change. He can also launch the power within the watch to temporarily stable a small area surrounding him. Anything inside this area will get protected.
Unlike the main character, the world is constantly switching between five periods.
NPC is also changed with the time period. Some people will only appear in some of the periods. Others will look very different in different periods.
He can also launch the power within the watch to temporarily stable a small area surrounding him. Then NPC in this area can talk to him. Otherwise, for most of the time they won't notice the main character.
2. Search and inspect
The main character can stable the time at different periods, then look around to search for clues, items, or NPC. He can inspect NPC, trying to help them by giving them information, items, or even take them with him for a "time travel". Some NPC follows him seeking for protection, others hate him and call him "son of the devil" since his father was the cause of this catastrophe.
3. Multiple endings
Throughout the game, the player needs to make lots of decisions. Each choice of the main character may change the final ending in some ways. Will the main character find his father? Will he be able to stop the twisted time and protect everyone? Will he find the cause of the experiment, or why there was such an experiment in the first place? It's left for the player to decide which route to go.
