PAX East 2010: D&D Game Table “Still Being Worked On”
At the Penny-Arcade Expo in 2007, Gamervision had a chance to sit down with the D&D Game Table. I was there, and I saw a prototype of the program, which was supposed to launch with D&D 4th Edition. It didn’t. It was supposed to come out a few months after. It, again, didn’t. Months went by without any word on the program. Months became years, and now here we are, still without the game table. At this year’s PAX East, we pressed the question, asking if Wizards of the Coast was finally ready to say what we’d all been dreading. They aren’t.
According to a Wizards of the Coast representative, Game Table is “still being worked on.” She couldn’t go into more details, but said that they weren’t scrapping the project, they just wanted to release it when it worked as well as they wanted. This is the same line we’ve been hearing for nearly three years, though it’s still good to know that somwhere, someone is working on the next evolution of Dungeons & Dragons. In the meantime, I suppose we’ll all still try and figure out how to use it on Google Wave. Or try and make friends. Aw, I made myself sad.
We’ll be sure to continue to ask everyone who has even been near a coast or cast a spell about the Game Table. I figure we’ll find out more eventually.
Swordgleam says:
The Surface demo at this year’s PAX looked like 4e, though admittedly I was only watching for about 20 minutes so I could be wrong.
March 30th, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Scott says:
SurfaceScapes is indeed based on 4e, and actually contains a pretty robust implementation of the rules set from what I witnessed. That said, it’s a student project and not in any way affiliated with WotC. Everyone kind of has their fingers crossed that Wizards will find some way to pick this project up and make it work for the game, but as it stands it’s just a really cool way of showing off what Surface can do.
March 30th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
FemJesse says:
I can’t wait until its the future and everyone just has surface tables and we can play DND on our surface tables.
The FUTURE!
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