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Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-i-ask-is-a-tall-e-ship dept.

dinther writes "Yesterday the program Ships was released. Ships is significant because it is the first serious application that uses Google Earth as a game engine. In Ships, you take control of a selection of ships and drive them around the world (if you have that much time). Building games around Google Earth is now viable, thanks to its ever-increasing level of detail. From a technical standpoint, the Google Earth browser plugin has proven to be quite a capable platform to work with. Further tech details about the application are available as well."

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  1. Re:load on google servers by 91degrees · · Score: 2, Informative

    Exponential? As in increasing geometrically? I don't think that's likely.

    Google's servers handle a lot of data, so I doubt this will even be a significant increase.

  2. Its clever but... by gnalre · · Score: 2, Informative

    Collision detection leaves a lot to be desired. However it is kinda cool to driver a cruise line up Rotterdam high street.

    But all in all I'll stick to ShipSimulator 2008

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  3. Re:only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4+ by hr.wien · · Score: 3, Informative

    Linux/OSX won't magically be able to run Windows executables just because you change your browser's UA string.