3 Lazy Days of PAXEast

At the writing of this, I have only been home an hour, many thoughts and memories of the past three days still swimming in my head but, for being the first convention of my life, I might complain and I might gripe, but I had a blast, but let me get my regrets and quips out of the way really quick.

One, I am not only large, but I am heavy, and yes, I was sweating up storms and heaving half the time, but what killed me the most was my feet. Because of my puppies, I missed Nvidia’s show as well as the Protomen at the concert Friday night and an open bar. Maybe I should punish them with a warm bubble bath. Two, I have many regrets coming out from the fun and chaos of my first CON, the biggest being that I did not get the Protomen to sign anything. I saw them, I bought their two albums, and I went on my way like a random Joe who was just looking to spend money. This is right up there of my life’s regrets next to me missing a Billy Joel concert. Another regret I have is that I didn’t touch any games, aside from one or two, and I have no idea why. I guess I was just overwhelmed with everything and there may have been walking involved, and three, it was crowded. All the tickets were sold out and boy could I tell. Getting in-line for a panel an hour early so you would get in made it hard for me to pick and choose which panels I went to. Regardless, these are all minor(except the Protomen bits) because I had a great time and can not wait for next year, but enough about the bad parts, here’s the super-duper PAXEast post!

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Dungeons & Dragons Has The Touch, Has The Power

Multi-touch surfaces have been around for a little while, and still has a way to go before being used by everyone for everyday needs, but already I can see no other greater use for such a device other than to play DnD on it.

Obviously still a work in progress, this demo comes to us courtesy of the team Surfacescapes at the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, and it shows off a lot the potential fun that could be had by anyone interested enough. Of course you’d have to get pass the price of such a table, but it’d be totally worth it. Totally.