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Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation

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 pipatron · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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