How do games like Prince of Persia manipulate time? | Bitwise

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Manipulating time at will is in my opinion one of the most interesting and powerful feeling game mechanics. Games like Prince of Persia, Braid, Qauntum League and even Overwatch employ time manipulation mechanics. But how does it work? How do games manipulate time? How can you rewind the entire world, speed it up and slow it down? In this video I will go in-depth into the inner workings of Time Manipulation in games. Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:05 Update loops and time steps 4:30 Global time rewinding 8:24 Local time rewinding 13:12 Optimizations 15:15 Conclusion My patreon: https://www.patreon.com/digidigger You can listen to our podcast at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrJJ1mZ9wPk6EfJKg_Id6fg https://open.spotify.com/show/7ak1IV8hLWx4w2RKtveQuk https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93aWtrbC5tZS9wdWJsaWMtdm9pZC11cGRhdGUvcnNzLnhtbA or wherever you listen to podcasts Music in in outro: Besus y Abrazor - Rolemusic: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic available under a Creative Commons Attribution license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/