Surfacescapes puts Dungeons & Dragons on Surface, makes your d20 obsolete (video)

We’ve seen some fancy applications for Microsoft’s Surface, the touchable, strokable, caressable computing device/big-ass table, but not a single one has made us twitter in nerdy glee like Surfacescapes. Created by a team at Carnegie Mellon University, it’s an implementation of Dungeons & Dragons in 3D, something that has of course been done dozens and dozens of times before, but this is different. Way different. It brilliantly brings the tabletop style of play to Surface, with players moving real figurines over virtual battlefields, rolling virtual d20s and d6s to deal real damage against digital dire wolves and the like, opponents who can move and attack automatically. Sure, it takes some of the imagination out of the experience, but it’ll also make re-rolling your character a heck of a lot easier — not to mention eliminating the dungeonmaster’s folder of magic, mystery, and crudely drawn maps.

[Via Microsoft Surface Blog]

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