For your whole life, you've been looked down upon because of your lack of intelligence and clumsy nature. Which is ironic because you're a giant. Well enough is enough, and now it's time for you to be the one looking down on them.
"Not stupid. Just slow." is virtual reality game played with the vive and its hand controllers. The player plays as a 20-meter-high giant who is on a rampage to destroy the city of Argos after being called dumb and clumsy for the last time. The player wins if the city of Argos is destroyed and loses if their HP falls to zero. Sounds easy right? Well there's a catch.
According to some scientific papers, the average Human reaction time is about 0.25 seconds. The speed of our reaction is directly related to how fast signals can travel from the brain through our body. If you take that into consideration and work with a little math…
What this means is players will only receive visual feedback 3 seconds after they do their action. For example, you move your head to look left, but the camera doesn't shift its view until 3 seconds after. Another example is you move your controller to pick up an enemy, or block a projectile, but that'll only happen 3 seconds after you actually do it.
3 seconds may not sound like a long time. But trust me, your senses will be THROWN OFF and maybe make you a little sick. What this game should also do is make the player empathize with the giant. The player should come to realize that the giant isn't actually stupid or clumsy. The giant is an intelligent and conscious being but because of physical limitations it can't exactly handle normal humans with care. It should make players think that even though our bodies are small in comparison to the animal kingdom, our size is perfect for what we're doing and we should be happy with that.
Artwork: Attack On Titan
