Timedancer is a new interactive experience which marries the excitement of great episodic television with the thrill of “point and click” gaming.  Creators Arivind Abraham and Ali Maggs, have worked with Microsoft to bring a whole new format to the world of mobile entertainment, exclusively on Windows Phone 7.

Set in the near future, Timedancer chronicles the lives of Vivien, Tempus, Ben, Kazuo and Adam, each of whom have their own agendas, but whose fates are intertwined across the fabric of time and space by the mysterious Timedancer Corporation.

Under the guise of developing time travel for philanthropic reasons, the corporation’s illusive CEO, Tempus, harbours sinister intentions of his own to eventually monetise and politicise time travel technology for his own profit and means.

Hoping to uncover the truth, Vivien, a timedancer, has gone rogue.  With the help of a woman named Kazuo and the alpha timedancer, Adam, she aims to take both Tempus and the Timedancer Corporation down.

The game is designed as a “5-episode season”, which has a complete story arc which the user will piece together over the course of the series. Using a combination of live action video, animation and explorative elements, Timedancer brings a whole new level of gaming to the Windows Phone 7 platform, making the most of Windows Phone technologies. A completely unique web-based experience is also due to launch in late-2011, allowing non Windows Phone users the opporunity to engage with different aspects of the mythology and narrative not featured on the app.

Writer Ari Abraham approached Timedancer with the mindset that a transmedia experience cannot be written as a film, TV show or video game. It has to be written as a transmedia experience from the ground up. Ari & Ali Maggs, created a working process that always remained focussed on the transmedia nature of the project.