Give any object its own time scale: slow it, speed it up or freeze it.
Magic Time is a Unity asset by Magic Pig Games that gives each object its own local time scale instead of one global Time.timeScale. Slow one enemy while the player runs at normal speed, freeze a group, add bullet time or build slow-motion zones.
Version 1.1.2 · updated September 21, 2026 · Unity 6.0 or newer
Each Magic Time User has its own local time scale: 1 is normal speed, 0.5 is half speed, 0 is frozen and 2 is double. Slow one enemy and nothing else in the scene changes.
Create Local Time Scale assets such as Global, Enemies or Projectiles and subscribe objects to as many as you like. Values multiply, so two 0.5 scales give 0.25, and one change updates every subscriber.
Put a Time Zone on a trigger collider to make an area slow, fast or frozen. Magic Time Users that enter take on the zone's scale and drop it when they leave, and enter and exit events tell you who crossed.
When an object's combined scale changes, it eases to the new speed over a transition duration and AnimationCurve you set per object. Set the duration to 0 for instant changes.
Drop-on components keep Audio Source and Audio Mixer pitch, Particle Systems and Trail Renderers in step with an object's local time, with no extra code.
Every Local Time Scale raises C# events and UnityEvents when its value changes, when it pauses or resumes, and when objects subscribe or leave. Use them to drive UI, sound or gameplay.
Integrations let Juicy Actions, Projectile Factory projectiles and the Game Modules 4 game clock follow Magic Time scales.
Bundled skills let Claude Code, Codex and other AI coding assistants set up Magic Time, build Time Zones and write local-time code for you, with or without Unity's MCP bridge.
Magic Time comes with skills for AI coding assistants such as Claude Code and Codex. Once they're installed, your assistant knows how Magic Timeworks, so you can ask for what you want in plain English:
Unity has one time scale for the whole game, Time.timeScale. Magic Time adds local time on top of it, built from four parts:
![Magic Time – Control Time per Object (Local Time Scale) [+Skills for CLI / MCP]](/images/store-298494-871da21a-1000.webp)
SetValue, Pause and Resume.Four more components read a User’s time scale every frame and match Audio Source pitch, an Audio Mixer pitch parameter, Particle Systems and Trail Renderers to it.
Magic Time changes the numbers; your code has to read them. Wherever an object on local time uses Time.deltaTime, use its User’s DeltaTime instead. FixedDeltaTime, Time and TimeScale work the same way. They are properties of each User (for example enemy.DeltaTime), not static values.
There are two ways to connect a script:
MagicTimeUser instead of MonoBehaviour. If you override Awake, OnEnable, Update, OnDisable or OnDestroy, call the base method, or the object’s clock and transitions stop.MagicTimeUser component and read DeltaTime from it. Use this when your class already inherits from something else.To slow a whole group at once, change a shared scale, for example MagicTimeManager.Instance.TimeScale("Enemies").SetValue(0.2f). Every subscriber follows.
Animators, NavMesh agents, coroutines and Rigidbodies still run on Unity’s global time, so connect them yourself: set animator.speed from TimeScale, and count up local DeltaTime instead of using WaitForSeconds. The scripting documentation covers the full API.
Magic Time includes AI skills for Claude Code, Codex and other coding assistants. For Claude Code or Cowork, run the bundled script in your project:
bash "Assets/Magic Pig Games (Infinity PBR)/Magic Time/Claude Skill/install.sh"
For Codex, copy the magic-time folder from that Claude Skill folder into .agents/skills in your project.
Ask “What can you do with Magic Time?” to check that it’s active, then describe what you want in plain English. With Unity’s MCP bridge running, the assistant adds the manager, creates scales, makes objects Users and builds Time Zones in the open editor. Without the bridge, it writes the C# and an editor menu item you click to build the setup.
Time.timeScale changes the speed of the whole game at once. Magic Time gives each object its own local time scale, so you can slow one enemy, freeze a group or speed up an area while everything else runs normally. A Magic Time User's DeltaTime is Unity's Time.deltaTime multiplied by that object's combined scale.
No. Magic Time changes the values your code reads, so movement, timers and cooldowns must use the object's DeltaTime instead of Time.deltaTime. Inherit from MagicTimeUser, or add a MagicTimeUser component and read DeltaTime from it.
Yes. Make the enemies Magic Time Users and lower their scale, or a shared Enemies scale, while the player stays a plain object on normal time. Time Zones also skip objects that aren't Magic Time Users, and a player that is one can be kept out with physics layers or a TimeZone subclass that checks its tag.
Add a trigger collider and a TimeZone component, then set its time scale value, for example 0.3 for 30% speed. Magic Time Users slow down when they enter, stacking with their other scales, and return to normal when they leave.
Not on its own, because they run on Unity's global time. Set animator.speed from the object's TimeScale, count local DeltaTime instead of using WaitForSeconds, and use FixedDeltaTime for kinematic movement you step yourself. Dynamic Rigidbodies have no per-object clock, so slowing them means scaling their velocity or forces, which is an approximation.
Yes, each has a Magic Time integration. Juicy Actions on a Magic Time User run on its local time and can animate Local Time Scales and Time Zones, Projectile Factory projectiles become Magic Time Users with the MagicTimeProjectile component, and Game Modules 4's TimeboardMagicTimeUser scales game time by Magic Time scales.
Yes. Magic Time includes AI skills for Claude Code, Codex and other coding assistants, installed with the bundled install.sh (for Codex, copy the skill folder into .agents/skills instead). With Unity's MCP bridge running, the assistant builds the manager, scales, Users and Time Zones in your open project; without it, it writes the scripts and an editor menu item you click.