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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:only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4+ by gandhi_2 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Google Earth browser

    browser-based game

    are we forking the meaning of "browser" now?

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  2. Can we have pirates? by sammyo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Subs?

    There are AIS feeds for live ships at sea, it's only available when the ship is near a land receiver but for the ports that update, all the actual current positions of working vessels could be included in a 'sim'.

    But pirates would be more fun.

  3. Re:load on google servers by wayLateToTheGame · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Why exponential?

  4. Re:load on google servers by pipatron · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because people don't know what exponential means, they think it means "a lot".

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