D&D: Coming Soon – Virtual Reality Dungeon Chess
The future is here. Virtual Reality Dungeons and Dragons Animated Chess.
There is nothing about that sentence that I don’t like. So here’s a brief overview. Experiment 7 is teaming up with Wizards of the Coast to bring you a virtual reality game that features D&D monsters battling it out in glorious virtual reality 3-D.
via Experiment 7
Virtual reality developer Experiment 7 and Dungeons & Dragons, from Wizards of the Coast, announced their partnership today to bring games to VR. Dungeon Chess™, a D&D-themed animated chess game, is the first title developed by Experiment 7 in this partnership and will release on Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR later this year.
In Dungeon Chess, players move fire-breathing dragon queens, death-ray blasting beholder rooks and other popular D&D creatures across the board as they engage in classic chess matches. New creatures will be revealed weekly on Experiment 7’s social media channels leading up to Dungeon Chess‘s release.
Advertisement“Players will be able to experience Dungeon Chess on our Magic Table™ platform,” said Experiment 7’s Co-founder and Managing Director, Demetri Detsaridis. “Magic Table players can play against real-world friends, other VR users from around the world, or face our custom AI opponents in Dungeon Chess, or other tabletop games. Each game is played in stunning and customizable rooms, like the legendary Yawning Portal tavern. Eventually, they’ll even be able to play and chat with users on completely different VR hardware.”
This sounds pretty cool. I’ve seen attempts like this before–there was the Eye of Judgement Peripheral for the PlayStation that looked like an expensive way to get the best parts of Yu-Gi-Oh right in your living room. But this feels like it could set a good precedent. I’m interested to see what other games Experiment 7 develops following this, well, experiment. In the meantime, I suppose, it’s best to just sit back and let the Wookiee win.
I know this isn’t chess, this is dejarik. Don’t worry.
Dungeon Chess, coming soon from Experiment 7
~Alternate title for this game: Wizards(tm) Chess.
