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Informazioni sul gioco

Spacetime Chronicles is a surreal, dreamlike narrative adventure following Fred between reality, dream and limbo. Guided by Freud — a cat embodying his unconscious — Fred confronts fears, desires and unresolved memories.

The game is a ‘sliding doors’ variation of the feature film: it preserves its characters, themes and central journey while changing events, encounters and possible paths. Watching the film first enriches the experience, but is not required.

Explore symbolic episodes involving bullies, exams, missed encounters and a mysterious girl on a tram. Solve environmental puzzles, talk to unusual characters and move through handcrafted situations inspired by classic point-and-click adventures such as Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, combined with platforming and arcade sequences.

Everything in the world is physically handcrafted from paper. A behind-the-scenes sequence at the end of the game reveals how its sets, characters and animation were made.

Life is not about reaching a destination, but about the path itself — with its uncertainties, repetitions and fleeting moments of beauty.

HOW YOU PLAY

You move Fred with the arrow keys or WASD and act with a single key: pick up, put down, use, talk. There is no inventory to manage and no mouse pointer to hunt with - everything happens in the world itself, so the puzzles are about what you notice and where you place things, not about clicking every pixel.

Each chapter is a hand-built set with its own rules, and the game keeps changing shape as you go: exploration and object puzzles, where you find what a room hides and carry things between rooms to use them where they matter - a plank, a stone, a bucket, a fridge that becomes a wall; environmental puzzles, where you move heavy objects to change how a scene behaves and then set off a chain of events and watch it play out; stealth and chase sequences, where you cross a place while someone is looking for you, learn their route and choose when to move; timed sections, such as a maze you must leave before the time runs out; arcade and platforming stretches of flying, falling and climbing that break the rhythm between the quieter chapters; and conversations with characters who rarely give straight answers, plus a cat who comments on everything.

A full playthrough takes around two to three hours. There are no lives to lose and no way to get stuck for good: if something goes wrong you simply try again from where you are. The whole game is played from the keyboard.

Divulgazione dei contenuti generati dall'IA

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Spacetime Chronicles comes from a handmade animated feature: most of what you see are real paper sets, characters and props, photographed and animated frame by frame by the author. Generative AI was used in the following areas. Images: roughly 15% of the game's images were created or completed with generative AI, then edited and integrated by the author. Audio: the game's sound effects and character voices were produced using generative AI tools. Code: parts of the game's source code were written and reviewed with the help of AI assistants. All of this content was generated during development, reviewed and approved by the author before release. The game does not generate any AI content while you play, and it does not connect to any AI service at runtime.