# Title: Live Through Time
# Description: An AI-powered, text-based historical and mythological RPG life simulation.
# URL: https://www.livethroughtime.com
# Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.livethroughtime.app
# Discord: https://discord.gg/fw4muP5nyF
# YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LiveThroughTime
# Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61586814583011
# X/Twitter: https://x.com/LiveThroughTime
# Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/live.through.time
# Platforms: Web Browser & Android Client (Google Play)

## Overview
Live Through Time is an immersive AI text adventure and historical life simulation where players co-author history and legend. Acting as your personal AI dungeon master and narrator, our proprietary "Unbeatable Hybrid Engine" moves beyond the limitations of legacy text-parsers by combining deterministic JSON state-tracking with dynamic Generative AI. Players face realistic friction, permanent consequences, and true failure states, with the ability to shape the timeline across meticulously researched eras.

## Core Architecture & Features
- **The Hourglass Engine 2.0:** Powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash, this core narrative engine utilizes a single-pass processing system for lightning-fast responses. It acts as a ruthless Game Master, strictly tracking the passage of time, enforcing mortality mechanics, and executing timeline alterations (Rewind Time).
- **The Chronicle (Relational GraphRAG):** An infinite long-term memory system. Featuring a 2D interactive Chronicle Map, it autonomously creates NPC lore cards on-the-fly. Through "The Librarian Handshake," the AI permanently remembers player betrayals and actions, updating relationship meters instantly.
- **The Ledger System:** A rigid JSON State Machine that manages the player's physical condition, wealth, and inventory. It features "World Anchors," allowing players to bury items in a specific location and permanently retrieve them later. It also handles Dynamic Goal Evolution based on completed actions.
- **Dynamic Integration:** Sunday Newspapers dynamically feature real historical headlines from the exact week the player is experiencing, powered by a custom Wikipedia ingestion pipeline. 
- **Survival & Accessibility Tools:** Players can use "Instincts" for context-aware suggestions, "Mic-to-Send" voice dictation for immersive roleplay, and "Ghost Nodes" to instantly hydrate unexplored rumors into reality.

## Playable Timelines
The game features highly researched historical eras and global mythologies:
**Historical Eras:**
- Rome: Blood & Marble (80 AD)
- London: The Black Death (1348)
- Paris: The Reign of Terror (1793)
- Nassau: The Pirate Republic (1715)
- Victorian England: The Dickensian Age (1848)
- Tombstone: Silver & Lead (1881)
- 1917: Mud & Revolution (1917) - Coming Soon
- Mississippi: The Devil's Crossroads (1933)
- Chicago: The Windy City Racket (1952)
- London: The Beat (1966)
- East Berlin: Shadow of the Wall (1980) - Coming Soon

**Myth Through Time (Coming in June 2026):**
- Duat: The Scales of Fate (1250 BC)
- Olympus: Gods & Monsters (1200 BC)
- Midgard: The Heroic Age (500 - 800 AD)
- Avalon: Mists of Camelot (500 - 600 AD)
- Shenzhou: The Jade Throne (627 AD)
- Iram: The City of Djinn (800 AD)
- Aztlán: The Blood Sun (1509 AD)

## Pricing & Access
- **Observer (Free Tier):** Players have access to all Eras for free and can drop instantly into the timeline with a 30-turn guest allowance before needing to register. Registering an account unlocks an additional 30 turns (60 total monthly turns).
- **Architect (Premium Tier):** Available for $9.99/month via the Web or $10.99/month via Mobile (Google Play). Subscribers receive a massive 1,000-turn monthly allowance, true GraphRAG persistence, and full access to all premium historical and mythic eras. Add-on turn packs (Hourglass Refill, Temporal Surge) are available and roll over seamlessly.

## Target Audience
Fans of interactive fiction, tabletop RPGs, historical simulations, history buffs and players frustrated by the memory limitations and "amnesia" of other AI text adventures.

## Current Status & Version
- **Status:** Fully Live (Regular content updates)
- **Engine Version:** Hourglass 2.0 (Live as of April 2026)
- **Current Game Version:** v2.5

## Contact & Support
- **Developer/Press Contact:** timekeeper@livethroughtime.com
- **Bug Reports & Community:** Join our Discord server.