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Karen asks them to look for her friend, Al Worth, who disappeared whilst investigating some nearby ruins. The game begins with the protagonist waking after being rescued from floating down the Tiber River by a woman named Karen.

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'I made some very complex flow charts.In both the full 2021 game and the 2015 mod, the story of The Forgotten City explores the existential relationship between humanity and its laws. How Pearce managed to write the story, track it, and plot all the different ways players can use the time mechanic feels like some sort of logic-based nightmare, but Pearce has a simple way of describing it through the language of the internet.

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'Once you get the hang of exploiting the time loop like that, it feels satisfyingly clever, and you're free to explore and experiment and have fun in all sorts of ways, like rigging elections and foiling assassination attempts, and grifting people out of their ill-gotten gains, and so on.' Thanks to your time loop skills, you can steal the medicine вЂ“ committing a sin and dooming everyone in the city вЂ“ but then jump through the time portal, start the day fresh, and deliver the antidote and become her new BFF.

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As a newcomer to the town, trying to figure out how to save it, you come across a woman who has died because the antidote that would have saved her is outrageously expensive. 'I like time loops mainly because they're fun for players to exploit,' he continues and points to an example in the game.

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'Back when I started making the mod in 2012, I'd never heard of a game with a time loop mechanic, so at the time I thought I'd come up with it independently, and I was a little disappointed when I discovered later that Majora's Mask had done something similar back in 2000,' admits Pearce. Think Doctor Who as written by Agatha Christie. The story of The Forgotten City is complex but is revealed in layers so somehow you're able to comprehend it without your brain leaking out of your ears. I ended up leveling up just about everything.' Mystery man 'Because the setting changed, the city changed, so the characters had to change, and their backstories had to change, and so on. That also meant more work, and Pearce adds that the script for the standalone is twice as long as the original.

Matyszak and I exchanged well over 300 emails over the span of 20 months, and did video link-ups, just so we could add lots of little details for history fans to enjoy.' 'We've worked closely with them to create the experience of traveling back in time to an ancient Roman city, and so we've included lots of little details like temples, shrines, roads, niches, mosaics, reliefs, and frescoes based on real-world examples from the time period,' he says. Sophie Hay, who has spent the last 20 years excavating the ruins of Pompeii. Philip Matyzak, who has a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Oxford and teaches at Cambridge, and Dr. To make sure The Forgotten City was as historically accurate as the fantastical story would allow, Pearce brought in two people he refers to as 'the big guns,' Dr. 'Transplanting my story into a Roman setting was absolutely massive, but it has allowed us to add some really cool story beats and twists, and to explore some fascinating real-world aspects of history, philosophy, mythology, and art we couldn't have used otherwise.' 'I'd always felt the mod was a rough draft of something much, much better,' he says. The standalone version doesn't just strip out then Skyrim, it adds layers of Roman lore to the original game. 'It felt like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, and my plan was to learn to fly by the time I hit the ground.' 'In late 2016, I did the riskiest thing I've ever done: I quit my job, founded a studio, hired a one-man-army Unreal engine engineer, and got to work,' says Pearce.

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