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Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego

Posted by Zonk on from the they-go-from-nashville-to-norway-down-there-to-zimbabwe dept.

Craig Miller writes "What better way to end the weekend than by playing a game of Brewster Jennings Protects America? This new game is a Google Maps mashup with the classic 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego' style of game. Run around the world trying to stop a terrorist from carrying an attack. Pretty amusing game and it shows what you can do with the Google Maps API and a little imagination." Despite the jingoistic title and concept it's a lot of fun, and quite challenging on hard.

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  1. World Dominance for Google by Open API by Transcendor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yet another example of perfect marketing by Google:
    1.make a more-than-average type of product, and establish it on the market.
    2.Make everyone use it.
    2.1Do that by quality
    2.2 by offering the best possible solution for someone who just wants to USE it
    2.3 by being the one who lets other people use it (by offering an API)
    TADA
    3. World Dominance
    I don't hate Google, but isn't it a bit a strange thing that "fair use" methods like "letting others use your product for both's advantage" leads to some kind of strange quasi-monopolism?
    is that something the Open-Source-Community has to worry about?


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  2. Whoa by isaf · · Score: 3, Funny

    This would be so much cooler with real time satellite feeds and orbital laser command at your control

  3. Jingoistic? by Toasty981 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Jingoistic? So the desire to protect America is extremely nationalistic?

    Either that, or Zonk has no idea what the word means.

    1. Re:Jingoistic? by _Sprocket_ · · Score: 4, Insightful
      ...the unprovoked invasion of sovereign nations which posed no threat to America.

      With the recent sabre-rattling directed at Iran and Syria, the definition of "protect" might become even more perverted and twisted.


      I'm curious - what do you think was going on with Iraq for the last 15+ years? And what do you think Syria and Iran has been doing during that same time?

      I'm no fan of the Bush Administration and am not keen to defend it's actions. However, I also find it a little odd that you use language that makes other players sound like innocent victoms of a bully superpower.
  4. I guess... by Nolkyan · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Brewster Jennings couldn't stop the incoming terrorist attack on his server...

  5. The only thing I found by 13bPower · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that Bostons roads are REALLY messed up.

  6. Google Earth games too by Lord+Satri · · Score: 5, Informative

    OgleEarth points to three games involving GoogleEarth, Earth Contest, GoogleEarthing and GEwar. Taken from http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/07/134251

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  7. They did a poor job at teaching history. by CyricZ · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Such games never really taught history. Yes, they taught you dates and names, but nothing serious. They never were able to delve into the complex socio-political situations that caused or arose from historic events. They never taught how to discern tainted or biased historic information from legitimate reports.

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    1. Re:They did a poor job at teaching history. by nosredna · · Score: 3, Funny

      To be fair, neither did history class in high school.

  8. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? by x0dus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google helped me found her.. She's in Cairo, Egypt.

  9. Re:What in the world by Celsius+233 · · Score: 3, Informative

    May I refer you to Wikipedia?

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  10. Tip by daniil · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you want to find out where she is hiding herself right now, just ask Google: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

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  11. Are we missing something? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, holy fuck, it's a game, not a goddamned graduate level course at Yale!

  12. For those who are wondering .. by calvin1981 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Brewster Jennings and co. is a "real" company. The CIA agent Valerie Plame, whose cover was blown for political reasons, "worked" for Brewster Jennings.

  13. Re:What in the world by Traegorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know whether to feel too old or too young for this comment.

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  14. Re:Your ad hominem attack gives me the victory! by qeveren · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, if you folks would simply stop overthrowing democratically elected governments and replacing them with psychotic tin-pot dictators for your own economic advantage, you wouldn't need to keep going back and overthrowing them every few years, now would you?

    Yes yes, survival of the fittest. Ever notice how it's always the bully that espouses this philosophy?

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  15. Re:Great by Trejkaz · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, once you find out the place you need to go to, you're up for a lot of zooming and dragging to pinpoint it. It would be much better (more like a quiz and less like a pixel hunting exercise) if they had a text field so that you could put the location you want in and it zoomed straight to it.

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