Endgame- Google Maps RTS (beta)

jshanman writes "Play the first Google Maps RTS! Online players (2-25) randomly receive a set of countries with troop hitpoints based on real world population data. To play: attack neutral and enemy countries in an effort to try to take over the world. You have a 20% chance of receiving more troops when you overtake an enemy country. More features to come! (currently in public beta status)."

Winner: Slashdot

Nuff said.

Currently /.

All your maps are belong to us !

Already slashdotted

The site is already slashdotted.

Re:Already slashdotted

Perhaps we can look at some other games using Google Maps.

http://moloko.itc.it/trustmetricswiki/moin.cgi/Gam esOnGoogleMaps [moloko.itc.it]

Re:Already slashdotted

I hate to point out that it's not a Google product here, it's a third party who uses Google Maps, and it is in beta.

No matter what i'm taking Lebannon

I'm in your base, killing your doods!

Re:Special Rules for the Player Playing "Islam:"

that should even things up a little

Sorry, I'm afraid you're way behind:

Post As An AC: Deduct 2 Points

Be Un-Funny: Deduct 5 Points

Credit The UN With Any Relevance: Lose a Turn

Gee, you sure you still want to play? Your heart just doesn't seem to be in the game...

nuclear launch detected

sounds cool, though perhaps they should have kept it in closed beta

How about a game of Chess?

No. Lets play Global (ThermoNuclear) War.

Game Over

Wellp, after the first round of play, it appears that winner of the first ever Google Maps RTS is Slashdot and the loser is the endeavorpub.com server.

By any chance was the beta test ...

...Held at the White House?

Good idea!

Excellent idea posting a link to a MMORPG with the word 'Google' in there somewhere, on a freakin' nerds' site... poor, poor server.

Slashdotted?

Wait a minute, does that mean people are now reading the story?

Mirrorless?

I was thinking about creating a mirror and posting the link to my host. I'm not risking my server blowing up.

That's fast

Zero to Slashdotted in 10 minutes!

Diplomacy

The game of Diplomacy, except 80 years in the future. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005EBA0 [amazon.com]

Voyager?

Phew. From the title I was afraid it was based on the Worst Episode Ever.

Dick

Whoever posted this to slashdot is a dick. He says he's running it off a home server.

Re:Dick

Look at the email address of the submitter, it appears to be the owner of the server.

Guess he wanted to test the smoke alarm in his home office.

Re:Dick

Relax, it was the author himself that submitted it.

jshanman ([e-mail]) writes "Play the first Google Maps RTS ! Online players (http://www.endeavorpub.com/endgame)

He should have known better

Kamchatka!

How do I get Kamchatka on Google maps! I have to have Kamchatka to r00lz the W0|2ld!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes..

but can it find sarah connor?

0% chance

> You have a 20% chance of receiving more troops when you overtake an enemy country

You have a 0% chance of getting through to the server.

First nothing!

RISK using the google API. [slashdot.org]

Granted, its not REAL TIME. Then again, the game in this post doesn't exactly sound like its real time does it? Not that I could see, because the poor server has probably burst into flames.

Actually, now that I think about it, maybe its the same developer. Can someone confirm/deny?

If that's the first Google Maps-based RTS...

What's this? [cybernations.net]

Yes!!

Risk for nerds!! Awesome! Oh wait.....

/. editors:

Perhaps when a story is submitted for /. the person looking at it should look around for something like...

DISCLAIMER: This is currently hosted on my personal server in my basement. Uptime cannot be guaranteed.

When are they going to set up a mirror system for the story articles??

Must be a slow news day...

Forget Google. I'm more concern about the actual events going on in the Middle East. With the latest "we broke this major terrorist plot" splashed on the U.S. front page, news out of the Middle East is being drown out.

Google Maps Flight Simulator + GE Games

http://www.gewar.net/ [gewar.net]
http://www.googleearthing.com/ [googleearthing.com]
and
http://googleearthgame.com/ [googleearthgame.com]

And the strangest... the Google Maps Flight Simulator [isoma.net]

Webmaster Sabbotage

Judging by the email address given before the quote in this article, the author of this game submitted the article to /. himself. I can understand wanting some free advertising and traffic, but posting something like this on /. is just asking for your server to be brought down. This webmaster sabbotaged his own servers, probably without even knowing it.

Melted Router: the game.

Yes, you've drawn the attention of hundreds of thousands of net savy game players... and your $100 linksys router has all the LEDs melted off the front and there is smoke coming from the ethernet cable. Good job. You're well on your way to returning us to the 1999 when people said they could do anything on the web and then failed to be able to keep up with demand.

You've just relived the dot-com bomb.

Best Google Earth flight "sim" I've seen

http://www.isoma.net/games/goggles.html

Play Risk for Free, and no ads

I recently released my version of web-based Risk, called Grand Strategy.

It features team games, leader board and a variety of game styles.

What's more it is free and there are no ads. It is an Ajax app so it runs very smooth. Check it out here:

Grand Strategy [denizengames.com]

My God! Google got Slashdotted!!

Maybe Slashdot should be looking at that IPO. Remember: You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Google should mirror google api!

Then it wouldn't have gotten slashdotted... you could google for google games and click the google cache link instead!

Used for practice

I'll bet the higher-level employees at Google use this to practice for project It's Not A Game (working title).

Slashdotted already?

Bah! I was looking forward to some hardcore Google Maps action!

So much for the interesting commentary.

I came here looking for comments on the moral aspects of the game - is it right to let people practice war on real-life maps, with points based on how much of civilization you flatten? - or otherwise decent, interesting comments. Instead, I read a series of "The site is already slashdotted." Not quite what I was after...

I guess I must be new here.

They have alternate hosting!

The site is alternatively hosted at http://s173754370.onlinehome.us/endgame/news.php [onlinehome.us]. The link in the article redirects to this page.

Osama

I wonder if GW will bring this up in his next public address. "I have personally put 5 dinosaurs in Afghanistan to look for Osama, we should expect results any day now."

Re:slashdotted before first post

you must be new here...