Hello everyone!
Thank you for visiting Thunder Dojo. At the Dojo I plan to blog about my current miniatures painting projects, showcase models from my collection, and perhaps review a game system or two that I have recently played. Hopefully, you may pick up a trick or two and add it to your own painting technique. Perhaps you may find a new game for you and your friends to play. Make no mistake, the Thunder Dojo is all about me sharing my "gamer geek" with you, so I hope that you enjoy your stay!
Wickedstormy
The way I am looking at computers in the table top and board game genre is as support. The support is getting better and better. And yes, there have been leaps and bounds in the merging of software and hardware with computers and virtual reality and enhanced gaming and whatnot. Ex Illis seems to be the closest to an actual computer table top game, but it really seems like 2 games that are exactly the same with a computer version and a table top version and sort of mashed together.
ReplyDeleteThe key word, as has always been the case with gamers, is flavor. Ex illis doesn't have the flavor. Eye of Judgment and the Avatar examples above seem to get really close to the flavor. Interesting that they use the word "enhanced," for that is what they truly are. Not changing the CCG genre, but enhancing what is already there. E.g. I summon my black smoke monster of death and place his card on the table. Enhanced - I can see the BSMoD conjured and appear in front of me.
I think these games will do very well in the different card and collectible markets, but haven't quite seen how this will infiltrate Table Top, other than to provide enhancements, like tokens, measuring, line of sight, and other things that Vassal does.
One thing I did not like about the D&D was the lack of real rolling of dice. One thing I will never like about any computer or enhanced or anything of the like is if it takes the dice out of my hand and puts it as a button or some other such nonsense.
They may take my life, but they will never take, MY DICE!!!