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Ride the waves in Tidekeeper, a strategy adventure game where you guide Fin and Chumby to help the residents of the Hourglass Isles. Master the art of scheduling to maximize your impact as you assist islanders, complete time-sensitive tasks, and dive into a variety of fun and engaging minigames.
Tidekeeper’s primary learning objectives include building, following, and adapting a schedule, general time management, the importance of scheduling for optimizing time management, the importance of honoring commitments and/or obligations, and using common virtual scheduling or calendar applications.
Players are tasked with not only scheduling in the game, but getting to those locations they chose to be on said schedule. This presents a challenge that is two-fold: schedule optimization and in-moment time management.
Tidekeeper is suitable for players of all ages and skill levels. It is designed with considerations for neurotypical players, and was initially designed for individuals with autism.
The end of each in-game day shows which Tasks the player made it to and which they missed, upon which they are rewarded appropriately with Reputation; the in-game economy. The final day of the game, acting as the narrative climax, consists of a “boss level” where the player has full control to schedule a multitude of Tasks all around the map to test their planning both spatially and temporally.
