The SurfaceScapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a proof of conceptDungeons & Dragonstabletop game to work on Microsoft Surface. SurfaceScapes is aiming to provide features that Game Masters and players will be able to work with to recreate theD&Dexperience on Microsoft’s giant screen table.I’m not aDungeons & Dragonsguy at all, but this is just neat as f**k. The above video goes through a walkthrough of what SurfaceScapes has developed so far. If videogames are making the transition away from handheld controllers, then I rather have something like the Surface become mainstream rather than Natal. Too bad these things cost a few grand.[via1Up]
The SurfaceScapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University have designed a proof of conceptDungeons & Dragonstabletop game to work on Microsoft Surface. SurfaceScapes is aiming to provide features that Game Masters and players will be able to work with to recreate theD&Dexperience on Microsoft’s giant screen table.
I’m not aDungeons & Dragonsguy at all, but this is just neat as f**k. The above video goes through a walkthrough of what SurfaceScapes has developed so far. If videogames are making the transition away from handheld controllers, then I rather have something like the Surface become mainstream rather than Natal. Too bad these things cost a few grand.
[via1Up]
