Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation 84
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."
Re:only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4+ (Score:4, Insightful)
Google Earth browser
browser-based game
are we forking the meaning of "browser" now?
Can we have pirates? (Score:3, 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.
Re:load on google servers (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:load on google servers (Score:5, Insightful)