If you are heading to GenconIndy, Vectorform and the Microsoft Surface team have a big surprise for you. Settlers of Catan on Microsoft Surface is heading to GenconIndy this week. A new video of game play was posted today and it looks amazing. Surface is shaping into the holy grail of tabletop gaming.

The most interesting revelation in the video is the use of physical dice on the virtual game surface. I’ve closely followed the D&D on Surface project, but I find its reliance on virtual dice a weak point. I hope the D&D Surface project gets released at some point and benefits from the phyical dice technology.

[Note: I misspelled the company name of the developer earlier. The company name is Vectorform. Many apologies.