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What I roughly mean: For every couple of meters you go, for every other interaction, the environment/the enemies/the NPCs get a number of tick/update points to act. That means, if the player stands still, after all update points are spent the worlds stands still as well.

Has this been tried? Does a game with mechanics as such exist?

Happy holidays, everyone.

Yes, there is a nice commercial game that works a more or less like that called Valkyria Cronicles ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyria_Chronicles ).

If you want to make a game like that, there is this nice step by step tutorial to make the basics of such a game with the Torque3D Engine:
http://www.garagegames.com/community/re ... view/20995
https://github.com/SteveYorkshire/Torqu ... ionTactics
https://youtu.be/4u-ClMGEsQE
http://torque3d.org/

Thanks Julius, I'll check this out. Curious if the concept could be applied to roguelikes...

I would say it is already applied in roguelikes. Angband has various speeds for monsters and the player character. In some cases you might move multiple spaces before the enemy attacks or vice versa.

Maybe this article could be interesting for you: http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=An_elegant_time-management_system_for_roguelikes

Thanks, I'll give this a read.