CMU Team Creates D&D for Microsoft Surface

[exfileme]

The Surfacescapes team at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University created Dungeons and Dragons (table-top style) for Microsoft Surface

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[jhansonxi]

Nifty but books, dice, and a paper map are a lot cheaper.

 

[Honis]

No true D&D nerd would trust virtual dice.

Nice concept, can't wait for a cheap-mans version of the software that uses a laid back flat screen.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

You could easily program it to sense dice and what the number is that it landed on. I haven't watched the vid yet, but it must see the other objects somehow. Dice are supposed to follow a standard, where if you take one number and add the number on the exact opposite side you get a number that is one higher than the number of the dice. Like on a D6, you should always get 7. You could use this information to create a profile for each kind of die (other than D4...) and simply write logic that figures out what was rolled. Now, I have some dice that ignore that so you'd have to enfore a rule that only standard ones can be used.

 

[tacoslave]

vin diesel was a d&d player who would have known?

 

[nelson_nel]

[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]You could easily program it to sense dice and what the number is that it landed on. I haven't watched the vid yet, but it must see the other objects somehow. Dice are supposed to follow a standard, where if you take one number and add the number on the exact opposite side you get a number that is one higher than the number of the dice. Like on a D6, you should always get 7. You could use this information to create a profile for each kind of die (other than D4...) and simply write logic that figures out what was rolled. Now, I have some dice that ignore that so you'd have to enfore a rule that only standard ones can be used.[/citation]

Do it then and shush. You spent way to much time already thinking about this

 

[dxwarlock]

what true d&d player would use a square grid for tabletop? all that tech into it and they cant even make it hex grid based?

 

[zak_mckraken]

Calm down, it's a work-in-progress. It's not like we can afford the table anyway!

 

[Guest]

maybe not cause they are very £££££.
but some people have been making some "very good" Surface's.#
yea there still home made but a heak of a lot cheper.
this game would get me off my butt to make one if i could use this with onw of the home made ones.