GAME ON We asked Brian Dixon, Game Design instructor at Southern Arkansas University Tech in Camden, Arkansas and independent texture artist to offer insight and some tips to experiencing Virtual Reality. For the past eight years, Brian has conducted training for EAST in addition to volunteering and teaching breakout sessions at the annual EAST conference. Here is what he shared with us. 6
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weat streams down the player’s face. His pulse quickens. The vibrations from the xenomorph’s footsteps run through the space station’s metal plating. “Where is it?” “I shouldn’t play this game!” Short sentences are all he can manage between ragged breaths. “I can’t see it! This is terrifying!” An electronic ping gets the player’s attention. Motion detected. “It’s here.”
