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Soundtrack: Timelie — Rewindable music, built for scrubbing time
A girl and a black cat escape by scrubbing time itself back and forth like a media player. Under that board you hear piano, a music box, and — sounds sampled from an array of clocks. Pongsathorn Posayanonth and Aun Jessada wove 'the sound of time' into the score. Black coffee in hand, I take apart music written on the assumption that the player will constantly rewind, in a form you can carry home to your own work.
Soundtrack: The Gardens Between — Music that never plays backward, even when you rewind time
Even though The Gardens Between is a game about rewinding and advancing time, Tim Shiel's music itself is never played in reverse. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why 'sound that never turns back even when time does' works so well for a memory puzzle, through a lens you can carry into your own composing.
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Timelie
A third-person time-manipulation stealth puzzle where you drag time back and forth like a media player's timeline—watch the future, then rewind and rewrite the past—steering a girl and a cat at once past patrolling robots. Released in 2020 by Thailand's Urnique Studio.
puzzlestealthtime-manipulationThe Gardens Between
A time-manipulation puzzle in which two arrow keys and one action button rewind and advance time as Arina and Frendt climb islands of memory. You move time itself rather than the characters, unspooling wordless scenes of childhood. From The Voxel Agents.
puzzleadventuretime-manipulationBraid, Anniversary Edition
A single-player puzzle-platformer where you rewind, pause and bend the rules of time, world by world, to clear 2D hazards and assemble jigsaw pieces. Thekla's remaster of the 2008 indie classic — fully repainted, with hours of developer commentary.
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