Back in May of 2010, my best friend Andy and I wanted to make a video game that we thought

was going to change virtual reality gaming and the horror genre forever.

We were both out of university, me with a degree in computer programming, and him with

digital art design. Both of us were avid

gamers. I think we played a bit of just about everything. Racing, JRPs, MMOs, sports, you

name it. We wanted to make a game unlike anything you could get coming from overseas.

You call it an ambitious goal for a couple of aspiring indie gamers, but both of us were

ambitious guys.

Andy was a big fan of horror and was actually the first to come up with the idea.

We had heard of the four-dimensional theaters that were being introduced in places like

Korea and London, where you weren't just watching a movie, but feeling it and smelling it.

If the movie was set in a pine forest, there were triggers that would release the scent

of pine to the audience.

Likewise, if the characters were standing on the windy deck of a ship, fans would start

blowing to mimic the conditions of the movie in the theater.

All of it was to create a more realistic, interactive experience for the viewer, and we thought

it would be awesome to try to implement that with a 4D game.

Obviously, we didn't have the manpower to make an entire game by ourselves.

We were in a lot of debt because of school and wouldn't have been able to afford the virtual

reality hardware in our wildest dreams.

That, and we had no idea how to develop the technology needed to create the 4D gaming

experience.

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