Thread: 24: The Game
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Old 04-02-2005, 01:20 PM   #6
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Well, the TV show isn't "strictly" 24 hours. After all, there are commercial breaks, making the running time about 45 minutes per episode instead of 60 minutes. But it's implied that stuff happens during the breaks. For the purposes of the game, it could handle time similar to Gabriel Knight 3, where you're playing within a windowed chunk of time, and you can't continue to the next time slot until you've finished the main objectives of the current one. Or developers could have each small chunk made into timed sequences. Like there are about 100 missions in the game, that would make each one about 15 minutes each in a 24-hour period. I don't know. I'm sure they've given it a lot of thought. As it is, the creators of the show are heavily involved in the making in the game, so they can put their insight of managing time within a tv series to use within a video game.
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