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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:finally... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There aren't any pirates in Somalia, only black people.

  2. News headlines by BigBadBus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it me, or are there far too many headlines regarding games on Slashdot recently?

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    1. Re:News headlines by Andy+Smith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      By the way, there are at least three grammatical / punctuation errors in the first paragraph of your Titanic book's web site: Two misplaced apostrophes and a missing hyphen.