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02-05-2012, 09:22 PM
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To the best of my limited knowledge* about binary star systems, any planet would orbit both of them. Thus both stars would always appear in the sky next to each other and there would only be one standard day/night cycle. The only difference would be a slightly more complicated dusk.

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Yeah, that's what I was suggesting. Since Abe says in the opening narration it all happened in one day. It would actually take less than a day to complete the game, especially omitting setbacks like dying, so it's perfectly feasible.
I've always assumed that the one day he was talking about was the period in between finding out about the Mudokon Pops and meeting Bigface. I acknowledge that that is probably wrong.



* Actually, to the best of my limited knowledge, binary star systems would not generally have planets because the orbits would be too complicated. But in the infinite complexity of space, let's make shit up for a moment.
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