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Google Earth Battleship
Using Google Earth as a gaming environment is a great strategy. What better place to game than in a real environment? No need to create new environments, and obstacles.Julian is in the process of ripping out a Battleship game utilizing Google Earth! Juian has been playing around with Google's newly acquired Sketchup application, and modeling some ships and pegs for use in the online game.
Users have to download a Google Earth KML file in order to start out. This kml will update every once and a while to account for newly added pegs. This new game that Julian is working on will allow users to use GPS's connected to cell phones, and call into the game to play.
[Props to Philipp Lenssen finding this one on Digg.]
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Bud Landry said 3:36PM on 7-17-2006
I like the angle of mixing this with the social networking Cell Phone GPS of playing tag, to find the battleship 'party' or whatever - great fun for Urban Geek or college campus sort.
The downside is, you can't run Google Earth from your cell phone. Yet. So how does the fact that part of the hunt needs a 'search kiosk' change the dynamics?
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