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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.]
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, ...
