Time Machine Interactive Adventure Series

Mysteries and fact-based adventure games set in time. For education and entertainment. Compatible with all major web-based and desktop email clients.

Time Machine 'History Mysteries!' are interactive stories, mysteries and adventures for your email. Your mission: to participate in the greatest events and epochs of all time, to retrieve precious artifacts and information — to solve the mysteries that surround the cloudy facts of the past. "Prepare yourself for transit to history with Time Machine."

Utilizing the Turntale email engine, these titles, including -- Mystery of Atlantis, Sword of Caesar, Mission to World War II, World War II Codebreaker, Civil War Secret Agent, American Revolutionary, and Rings of Saturn -- combine real-world facts and the excitement of gaming to teach and test knowledge and comprehension of key historical facts, dates and personalities.

Based on the popular book series of the same name, the TurnTale engine breathes life into an aging property with new features, new distribution and access to a new audience.

TurnTale Adventures are interactive narratives, that is, custom-built stories, participatory adventures and other kinds of yarns that put readers in the driver's seat. Here's how it works:
1. Consumers receive an episode of the series.
2. At the end of an episode, they make a choice — what does the main character do next, which part of the tale do they want to see, etc. These may be arbitrary (all paths being equally fun on the road with games like Shrek) or based on one's knowledge of history (in these Time Machine titles.)
3. The consumer hits 'send' in their email client —- the TurnTale engine interprets the incoming email, registers the choice, and queues up an appropriate response from a database of HTML, image and audio media.
4. In a few minutes they receive the next episode, based on the choices they've made, where they are once again presented with a challenging, fact-based puzzle.

Additionally, as TurnTale titles, they include performance tracking and reporting, advanced viral marketing, subscription tracking and copyright protection, flexible bundling and payment schemes inherent in the engine.