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Multiuser Google Earth with Skype = Unype
What happens when you mix up the ever popular Skype, with Google Earth? Well, you get Unype, an interesting virtual world mashup application. With Unype, users can utilize Skype's chatting and VoiP with Google Earth to chat and share Google Earth sessions with other users that have the same applications installed at their end.
To get up and running, users have to install a Windows PC application running locally, and connect to both Skype and Google Earth. Once the Unype application is up and running, users will have access to the Unype server, which then interacts with local copies of both Google Earth and Skype. When connected to the server, users will be able to see other users that are active in the virtual world. Unype then lets users chat or call each other to communicate, or click on other user's information to be transported to their location in the world.
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 ...
