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Fluid time in Final Fantasy

gunshou wrote in ff_phd Feb 05, 2007 15:39

Response to Assignment One. Mild spoilers for FFXII, although I haven't gotten very far in the game myself.Time, both in the Final Fantasy universes and in real life, is an arbitrary and fluid concept. We mark out days, hours, minutes, based on observational events. A "day" is how long it takes the sun to rise and set. We have quantified that ( Read more... )

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Time in Final Fantasy VII

darcenciel wrote in ff_phd Jan 28, 2007 23:35

I'm currently playing Final Fantasy VII, and as that's the one that's most fresh in my mind, I decided to put some thought into this time business and calculate approximately how long it would take in "real time" for all the events of the game to happen. This took way too long and used way too much of my brain power to be justified, but well. Here ( Read more... )

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Assignment 1: Response

admiral_j wrote in ff_phd Jan 26, 2007 11:56

http://community.livejournal.com/ff_phd/1618.html

I think the worlds of Final Fantasy are just smaller than what we are accustomed to in the real world. You can make an argument for distorted scale in the earlier sprite-based games, since people on the world map are as large as towns, or vice versa, but particularly in later games, that illusion ( Read more... )

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Assignment One - A Damn Long Walk

gunshou wrote in ff_phd Jan 21, 2007 21:39

Welcome to the University of Final Fantasy!

Please read the userinfo before posting to review the rules; remember that all posts are moderated and may take up to 48 hours to show up ( Read more... )

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