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game mechanics involving moving through time, slowing down speeding it up, or generally any game mechanic that involves the manipulation of time.

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Special attacks in Mortal Kombat Mobile require slow motion i.e. delay in game play. On multiplayer mode, when the opponent uses special attacks, I don't observe any lag/delay. When I use special ...
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I'm trying to create some interesting variations on timescales in my game. In essence, I'd like at least two, probably three or four separate timescales. The player - the player timescale is likely ...
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In my game I have a power-up that slows everything down. I keep the player at regular speed by dividing deltaTime by timeScale. Everything works perfectly except for OnTriggerStay2D which appears to ...
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I have a game (C++) in which I want to transition between two speeds of motion. For illustration, the player raises their weapon to aim, and whilst this is in progress over a known duration, time ...
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I'm looking to change the way in which my game uses GameTime to run the game so that I can easily pause the game (elapsedTime = 0...
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My game has first-person melee combat that is based on directional attacks that are controlled with mouse gestures. For example, a downward slash is most effectively blocked by a shield held up high. ...
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I am developing a single-player RPG platformer in XNA 4.0. I would like to add an ability that would make the time "stop" or slow down, and have only the player character move at the original speed(...
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me as very unexperienced game developer, I wondered how I could achieve something like re-winding the time in my game or jump back to a special moment (killcam) and replay it for the user.
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I have an XNA 4.0 game that I want to be able to switch into slow motion and back again to full speed every now and then. So if you kill an enemy the game switches into slow motion as they explode ...
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I was wondering how to implement time travel into a game. Nothing super complex, just time-reversal like what's in Braid, where the user can rewind/fast forward time by 30 seconds or whatever. I ...
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I am making a 2d platformer where the player can press a button, and restart the level, only their previous character will also run the level at the same time, like they are traveling back in time. I ...
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