Time 'Scape

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Time 'Scape
System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: ASG Technologies
Developer: Sales Curve Interactive
Supporting companies: Durand Interstellar[1] (writing consulting)
Development timeframe: 1994[2]
Planned release date(s): 1994
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1

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Time 'Scape, also known as TimeScape[1] and Time Slip, is an unreleased Sega CD action game developed by Sales Curve Interactive and produced by ASG Technologies. A port of the 1993 Super Nintendo game Time Slip, it was scheduled to be published by ASG themselves in 1994, but ultimately never reached store shelves.

Story

A temporal door opens between Earth and Tiamat. Learning this, Tiamat decides to attack Earth through time, striking planet Earth in five different periods of its past - where humanity was technologically less- advanced. The armies of Tiamat know that Earth has the ability to time travel, and so they begin bombing Earth in hope to destroy the Time Slip facility. Vince Gilgamesh, the project's mastermind and survivor of Tiamat's first attack, is able to repair the Time Slip machine just enough to send one person back in time. Grabbing an energy rifle from a dead soldier, he starts the countdown sequence....

History

Development

In the early 1990's, I was working as a consultant writer to a video game company. They chose a theme for a game based on time travel. The company was poorly managed, had internal and external problems, and consequently, eventually went out of business. And because of that, they never paid me for my work. So, I retained the rights to the subject matter and all that I had written. As I had little interest in pursuing further video game writing, I shelved the material.

Writer Sharon Hurtley-Durand[3]


Writer Sharon Hurtley-Durand, one half of the Los Gatos-based electronic company Durand Interstellar, was hired by ASG Technologies around 1994[2] to create a story concept for a game based around time travel. Originally titled TimeScape 5357, Hurtley-Durand retained the rights to the story after Time 'Scape went unreleased. Currently, she is finishing the story on her blog Red Feather Crow, with her latest entry published in January 2025.[4]

Production credits

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Developer statements


Magazine articles

Main article: Time 'Scape/Magazine articles.

References