Islands of Nyne is aiming to inject a fresh boost of adrenaline into the arm of the PvP battle royale survival sub-genre of games that have recently started popping up. In just a few short days, with over three weeks remaining, they’ve managed to acquire nearly 75% of their $40,000 target funding amount as of the time of this writing. Nevertheless, that appears to be the mission of Define Human Studios, the team behind the recently launched Kickstarter project game, Islands of Nyne: Battle Royale. Contrast that to the standing or room-scale experience of the Vive, or the Oculus Touch, and you may run into some issues porting that over.
Motion sickness is a huge concern and there aren’t many workarounds for it other than just “don’t play it if you can’t,” but that’s hardly a solution.Īdditionally, many shooters utilize the full compliment of traditional gamepads, requiring dexterity between dual analog sticks, four triggers, four face buttons, and more. For one thing, the speed of gameplay is quite literally difficult to stomach for most people. There is a lot of difficulty associated with adapting the shooter genre to VR, however. A technology that is able to believably transport the user into another world, with full head-tracking, room scale adaptation, and in some cases motion control support, of course the most popular video game genre seems like a natural fit. Everyone has been asking ever since VR headsets started getting into consumer’s hands: where is the big, must-have, first-person shooter for VR? It’s a logical question.