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Desktop Earth 2.0 - Today's mod
by Jason Clarke Apr 3rd 2006 at 8:30AM
Desktop Earth is an oldie, but a real goodie. It
allowed you to display a globe or map on your desktop that would move according to the time, either keeping your
location centered with light changing to show the relative position of the sun, or showing from the sun's perspective
with the earth rotating or moving by.
While very cool, Desktop Earth is extremely long in the tooth. Luckily, a new version has been released, dubbed appropriately Desktop Earth 2.0. In the new version, the imagery is based on NASA's Blue Marble Next and Earth's City Lights, and is generated from very high-resolution textures (2560x1280).
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Manuel Bahamondes said 5:35PM on 4-05-2006
Encuentro muy interesante su propuesta y espero tener mayor informaci?l respecto. Gracias.
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Manuel Bahamondes said 5:42PM on 4-05-2006
Encuentro muy interesante su p?na. Espero recibir mayor informaci?l respecto
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