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<blockquote data-quote="Cthulhudrew" data-source="post: 3727473" data-attributes="member: 4090">Okay, I see where you're coming from- you are talking more about some of the organizational aspects of the DI, rather than some of the aspects that I'm talking about. Specifically, I'm looking at their depictions of the Virtual Game Table and what they've said its uses could be for finding and gaming with people over the internet (ie, in a non-tabletop, face-to-face sense). Maybe I'm misunderstanding the way it was presented at GenCon in the video (or just haven't seen enough of their plans), but my take was that it could be used not just as a DM/Player aid to tabletop gaming, but could be used to simulate the tabletop environment in a virtual world- so that you could generate and play with players from around the globe. In such a case, it seems to me that it would be useful to make it cross platform compatible, especially with the newer generation consoles that are designed to be multimedia devices.I don't think they have non-programmers working on these- they were advertising for programmers some time ago (in preparation of the DI, one presumes), and I can't imagine they would just let this project go ahead without the proper technical support in any case.XBox probably wouldn't be quite as difficult to do as the PS3, because from my understanding its software is pretty much what you'd expect to get from any Microsoft product. Also, I'd have to double check, but I believe I've heard that the PS3 is actually easier to program and design for than the XBox.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cthulhudrew, post: 3727473, member: 4090"] Okay, I see where you're coming from- you are talking more about some of the organizational aspects of the DI, rather than some of the aspects that I'm talking about. Specifically, I'm looking at their depictions of the Virtual Game Table and what they've said its uses could be for finding and gaming with people over the internet (ie, in a non-tabletop, face-to-face sense). Maybe I'm misunderstanding the way it was presented at GenCon in the video (or just haven't seen enough of their plans), but my take was that it could be used not just as a DM/Player aid to tabletop gaming, but could be used to simulate the tabletop environment in a virtual world- so that you could generate and play with players from around the globe. In such a case, it seems to me that it would be useful to make it cross platform compatible, especially with the newer generation consoles that are designed to be multimedia devices. I don't think they have non-programmers working on these- they were advertising for programmers some time ago (in preparation of the DI, one presumes), and I can't imagine they would just let this project go ahead without the proper technical support in any case. XBox probably wouldn't be quite as difficult to do as the PS3, because from my understanding its software is pretty much what you'd expect to get from any Microsoft product. Also, I'd have to double check, but I believe I've heard that the PS3 is actually easier to program and design for than the XBox. [/QUOTE]

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