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''Chronotron'' is a flash video game developed by Scarybug Games. ''Chronotron'' launched on the Kongregate website in May 2008. It is notable for having been selected as one of ten games in the PAX 10 2008 out of over eighty entries.〔 It has been described as innovative.〔 The protagonist is a robot named Chronotron which travels back in time to cooperate with himself.〔 (Excerpted from the television program X-Play.〕 The main character must fetch an item before moving to the next room.〔 Solving the puzzles requires sending the main character back in time to coordinate with previous selves.〔 The gameplay requires thinking ahead.〔 ''Chronotron'' records the control input, not the protagonist's position.〔 As a result, actions by later selves can interfere with earlier selves.〔 A number of web sites have licensed ''Chronotron'', including Kongregate and MTV's AddictingGames.〔 It was featured on the front page of Kongregate.〔 The game appears on over 2,000 web sites〔 and has been played more than seven million times.〔 Archived from (here ) on 2008-10-26.〕 The developer splits advertising revenue evenly with Kongregate and has made more than $1,000.〔 The developer has made nearly $15,000 in profits from the game.〔 ==Development== ''Chronotron'' was developed by Madison, Wisconsin based〔 Scarybug Games, which consists of a single person: Joe Rheaume.〔〔 Rheaume was the sole developer of ''Chronotron''. Development for ''Chronotron'' took seven months.〔 ''Chronotrons sponsorship support was handled through FlashGameLicense.com.〔 Interest in sponsoring ''Chronotron'' allowed Scarybug Games to hire Romanian artist Bogdan Ene to replace the graphics.〔 Royalty free music was purchased for the game.〔 The music's author is Helge Krabye.〔 Sound effects came from the Freesound Project.〔 ''Chronotron'' credits screen. 〕 ''Chronotrons time travel elements was inspired by advertising for the Xbox game ''Blinx: The Time Sweeper''〔 and an article on ''Braid''.〔〔 Rheaume claims to not have played ''Blinx''.〔 ''Chronotron'' was released before the release of ''Braid''. Rheaume claims to have "thought of the idea of recording input and going back looping on yourself."〔 Rheaume wanted there to be no limit on how many times you could travel back in time.〔 The game contains references to time travel stories including ''Back to the Future'', ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure'', and ''Doctor Who''.〔 The puzzle platformer elements were inspired by ''The Lost Vikings''.〔 Rheaume notes the similarity between cooperating with your self to the cooperation between the three Vikings in ''The Lost Vikings''.〔 Puzzle pacing, with later puzzles building on what is learned earlier, was inspired by ''Portal''.〔 ''Portal'' also inspired the use of humorous signs in game as hints.〔 Rheaume is a Flash developer for his day job.〔 Chronotron was built as a hobby.〔 As a hobby, Rheaume can develop ideas which don't fit the ideas, time constraints, and budgets of his regular job's client projects.〔 Chronotron was developed because Rheaume thought it would be fun to play.〔 Rheaume developed it further because he "thought it really had legs."〔 Interest from other people kept Rheaume going.〔 The name of the game and the protagonist comes from "chrono" for "time" and "tron" as a generic term for "robot."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chronotron」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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