Why did we create this game?

To create a simple game, suitable for all ages, that will encourage the building of an individual’s understanding of the chronology of world history as a personal graphical ‘Timeline, encouraging elements of competition and involvement. History is of course a continuum of events, with each event influencing or being influenced by events around it. So, establishing a universal Timeline will help see each event withing its’ historical context. The scale of the Timeline will also bring home the relative ‘distances’ between events. This might be showing how unexpectedly close or distant familiar events are to one another. Because the Timeline has been built from scratch by each user, there will be an element of ownership which will make it personal and more interesting to the user. Clearly the objective is educational but presented in a manner that is fun and rewarding.