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The Time Tribe app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 1536 ratings )
Games Education Adventure Role Playing
Developer: The Time Tribe
Free
Current version: 2.1.8, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 10 Oct 2014
App size: 216.37 Mb

You’ve been summoned to a creaky old manor house known as the Keep, full of ancient relics and mysterious people.

But WHY?

Dive into an epic story. Unravel the secrets of a lost clan. Claim YOUR right to travel through time!

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The Time Tribe: Episode 1 is the award-winning first instalment in a series that blends history, mystery, role-playing, exploration, and puzzle-solving into an interactive story and game to be played on iPad, online, and in the real world.

Created by an anthropologist, archaeologist, educator and parent, The Time Tribe wraps the facts of history and other cultures into popular, fun game formats kids love already.

Delivered as a point-and-click adventure game set in an exquisitely crafted virtual world, its designed for anyone aged 10 and up who loves history and a great story!

The Time Tribe is a Parents’ Choice Silver Award winner, Academics Choice Smart Media Award winner, and a Scholastic Instructor Best of Teachers’ Pick.

The educational content is designed for ages 10 and up but the game and the story it spins will delight armchair travelers of all ages!

APP FEATURES

- Explore the Keep to uncover its secrets and collect its treasures!
- Solve puzzles and complete quests!
- Decipher cryptic journals, pictures, maps, and letters from the characters!
- Play as four characters, with different skills that unlock different rewards!
- Unlock comic book cut-scenes to learn more of the story!
- Gather information from everyone you meet (just don’t believe all you hear…)
- Discover fun facts about history and world cultures!
- Think like an historian to piece together evidence, form opinions, and draw conclusions!
- Furnish your own authentic artifact gallery!
- Create your own personal Coat of Arms!
- Connect with real world friends in the game!
- Earn rewards to help kids in need in the REAL world!

WHATS INCLUDED

*** Note: The free download is a trial version of the game, designed to let players try it before committing to buying the full episode via in-app purchase. ***

Up to 12 hours of play time exploring all the Main Quest options.

Finished the Main Quest? Great! There’s always something else to do in the Keep:
- Log in each day for a NEW Daily Quest!
- Customize your artifact gallery and Coat of Arms!
- Play three Minigames for casual fun that levels up your main game, too!
- Find regular story updates and fun topics to explore, at https://www.thetimetribe.com!

An exciting interactive story, shaped by individual player choices.

Fun and factual introduction to world cultures and our shared human history.

Superior production values:
- Fully voice-acted dialogue
- Gorgeous orchestral soundtrack
- Beautifully rendered settings with authentic art and artifact reproductions

Optional game-based, Common Core-aligned enrichment activities for Middle and lower High School grades (available on our website at https://www.thetimetribe.com).

An ongoing adventure to capture the imagination! Future Episodes will track The Time Tribe’s adventures through Roman Britain, Mohenjo-Daro, Inca Peru, ancient Troy, First Empire China, the Pirate Caribbean, colonial sub-Saharan Africa, medieval Japan, and more.

REQUIREMENTS

- Wireless or cellular provider internet connection
- Not suitable for use on iPad 1

GAME PLAY TUTORIALS

Optional, since youll learn everything you need to know as you play, but full instructions are available at: http://blog.thetimetribe.com/how-to-play/