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Asymmetrical hotseat gaming for casual home-nights
So, two of the big things against VR I hear is this:
I've started thinking about the idea of asymmetrical social gaming, where one person wears the rift, and you have the other players in the room using other devices for gaming. Like a gamepad, wiimote, cellphone.
An idea I had is that the player in the rift is navigating a city crawling with zombies or other nasty things trying to get to an exit. The other players in the room use a wiimote/gamepad in order to aim a cross hair at a screen in birds eye view to clear a way for the player. The other players also have to help the main one navigate, as they can see more of the world than he/she can.
After each level the game will say "Next up <player name>", and this will load up a different rift-profile so that the IPD and height will be correct for each player, and then the next person puts on the rift and gets to navigate.
Bear in mind that this is just an example game concept that I haven't fleshed out at all.
Te goal with this is to create a social game in the early days of VR, when it's not a given that everyone will have a VR-headset of their own. It will be a fun thing to show your friends who come over to try out the rift, since everyone can participate in the fun, even those who aren't wearing the rift at the moment, making it a social experience.
It will also help with VR-sickness during long gaming sessions, since you only play with the rift on for a short while until you hand it over to the next guy. So VR-breaks are built in to the game mechanics, it allows for social gaming before everyone has a rift of its own.
What do you guys think of the idea of asymmetrical hotseat rift-gaming? What kind of game concept can you come up with using the tools that most people already have (phones, gamepads, keyboard/mouse, TV-monitors etc)?
- Many get VR-sick after prolonged use.
- In its current state it's very asocial, because it shuts out the rest of the world with next to no interactivity with friends around you.
I've started thinking about the idea of asymmetrical social gaming, where one person wears the rift, and you have the other players in the room using other devices for gaming. Like a gamepad, wiimote, cellphone.
An idea I had is that the player in the rift is navigating a city crawling with zombies or other nasty things trying to get to an exit. The other players in the room use a wiimote/gamepad in order to aim a cross hair at a screen in birds eye view to clear a way for the player. The other players also have to help the main one navigate, as they can see more of the world than he/she can.
After each level the game will say "Next up <player name>", and this will load up a different rift-profile so that the IPD and height will be correct for each player, and then the next person puts on the rift and gets to navigate.
Bear in mind that this is just an example game concept that I haven't fleshed out at all.
Te goal with this is to create a social game in the early days of VR, when it's not a given that everyone will have a VR-headset of their own. It will be a fun thing to show your friends who come over to try out the rift, since everyone can participate in the fun, even those who aren't wearing the rift at the moment, making it a social experience.
It will also help with VR-sickness during long gaming sessions, since you only play with the rift on for a short while until you hand it over to the next guy. So VR-breaks are built in to the game mechanics, it allows for social gaming before everyone has a rift of its own.
What do you guys think of the idea of asymmetrical hotseat rift-gaming? What kind of game concept can you come up with using the tools that most people already have (phones, gamepads, keyboard/mouse, TV-monitors etc)?
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