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Monday, July 17, 2006

Google Battleship

I've started working on a bit of summer laboratory experiment to see how Google Earth could become a platform for realtime mobile gaming. (Follow the link on the Flickr photo page to the URL you can load in your Google Earth client to see the game board in its current state.)

With Google Earth open enough to place objects dynamically using the tag, a bit of SketchUp modeling and borrowing an enormous battleship model that construction dude uploaded to the SketchUp/Google 3D Warehouse, I started plugging away at a simple game mechanic based on the old Milton Bradley Battleship game.
-- Battleship:GoogleEarth (a 1st Life/2nd Life mashup) (via techmeme)

The guy is blogging his efforts at the above link. Kind of project I wish I had time for.



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