--- title: Time Walker, A 2001 Troika RPG Proposal | daily.dev description: Tim Cain shares a previously unpublished 2001 game design proposal called 'Time Walker,' co-created with Jason Anderson at Troika Games. The document, written... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/time-walker-a-2001-troika-rpg-proposal-mvoh027dw twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Time Walker, A 2001 Troika RPG Proposal | daily.dev og:description: Tim Cain shares a previously unpublished 2001 game design proposal called 'Time Walker,' co-created with Jason Anderson at Troika Games. The document, written... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/time-walker-a-2001-troika-rpg-proposal-mvoh027dw og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mVoh027dw.png og:image:alt: Time Walker, A 2001 Troika RPG Proposal og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Time Walker, A 2001 Troika RPG Proposal **[Cain on Games](https://daily.dev/sources/cainongames)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tim Cain shares a previously unpublished 2001 game design proposal called 'Time Walker,' co-created with Jason Anderson at Troika Games. The document, written between Arcanum's completion and the team's next project, outlines a time-travel RPG where players act as temporal agents ensuring their own reality's survival. Key design features include 15 time periods, mission-based gameplay with historical figures, and a self-balancing probability system where losing grants access to more fantastical weapons. The proposal targeted Xbox with first-person perspective similar to Half-Life and included multiplayer considerations. The game was never developed beyond this proposal stage. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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