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Mapping WoW with Google's API
Alas, there is such a resource (many in fact, but few that use Google technology), called MapWoW.com. Long time players have known about it for ages (and are probably asking why I just found it now), but it does in fact use Google's API to create some of the best WoW maps available. There are resource overlays so a player can view graphics where and what things are with the check of a box, overlayed on the map. You won't be able to find your local burger joint on this map, but it is a very creative and well put-together use of the wildly popular Google Maps API.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Truegod said 5:50PM on 4-13-2007
This has been done with Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion too. In fact there are two Oblivion maps based on the Google maps API.
http://www.uesp.net/oblivion/map/obmap.shtml
http://www.oblivionmap.net/
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antianeira said 8:28PM on 4-13-2007
if we can get real time location of players by server like a "GPS", that would be awesome! then i would be able to track down that ganking horde ...
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Mr Odin said 10:59PM on 4-15-2007
OK
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