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Can Games Fly On Google Earth?

simoniker writes "A team at Intel have built a game prototype that works entirely within Google Earth, in which: 'Martian robotic spacecraft are invading... Your mission is to decipher the messages, and blast these Martians before they can suck people off the planet.' The engineers explain: 'Existing games we found all require switching back and forth between a web browser window and Google Earth. Our goal was to develop a game with all the action inside a single window, similar to a traditional video game, leading to a more immersive and responsive experience.' The gameplay is fairly simple as of yet — but could this be the start of a host of fully integrated Google Earth games?"

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  1. Dear Google by SydBarrett · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please put a Katamari Damacy mode in Google Earth.

  2. Re:Carmen Sandiego by Non-CleverNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    She's having sex with Waldo...which would explain why you can never find either of them.

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  3. Great! by JFMulder · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now let's make a life simulator to simulate the evolution of the Earth. We could call it Sim Ea... err... wait.

  4. Martian love by nagaicho · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your mission is to decipher the messages, and blast these Martians before they can suck people off Eh heh heh.

    the planet. Oh.