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Google Maps Meets Carmen Sandiego 241

Posted by Zonk from the they-go-from-nashville-to-norway-down-there-to-zimbabwe dept.
Craig Miller writes "What better way to end the weekend than by playing a game of Brewster Jennings Protects America? This new game is a Google Maps mashup with the classic 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego' style of game. Run around the world trying to stop a terrorist from carrying an attack. Pretty amusing game and it shows what you can do with the Google Maps API and a little imagination." Despite the jingoistic title and concept it's a lot of fun, and quite challenging on hard.
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  • Great (Score:1, Redundant)

    by gregbains ( 890793 )
    Wow, this is amazing. Shows what innovation and imagination can prduce.
  • is a 'Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego' style of game?

  • but... (Score:1, Offtopic)

    by FLAGGR ( 800770 )
    I have dialup you insenstive clod!

  • World Dominance for Google by Open API (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Transcendor ( 907201 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:42PM (#13910276)
    Yet another example of perfect marketing by Google:
    1.make a more-than-average type of product, and establish it on the market.
    2.Make everyone use it.
    2.1Do that by quality
    2.2 by offering the best possible solution for someone who just wants to USE it
    2.3 by being the one who lets other people use it (by offering an API)
    TADA
    3. World Dominance
    I don't hate Google, but isn't it a bit a strange thing that "fair use" methods like "letting others use your product for both's advantage" leads to some kind of strange quasi-monopolism?
    is that something the Open-Source-Community has to worry about?


    Don't let the facts bite you. Get bitten [linklike.de.vu] here instead.

  • Whoa (Score:3, Funny)

    by isaf ( 912891 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:42PM (#13910281)
    This would be so much cooler with real time satellite feeds and orbital laser command at your control

  • Jingoistic? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by Toasty981 ( 43996 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:47PM (#13910315) Homepage
    Jingoistic? So the desire to protect America is extremely nationalistic?

    Either that, or Zonk has no idea what the word means.
    • Jingoistic? So the desire to protect America is extremely nationalistic?

      Teaching geography via the Global War on Terror is certainly paranoid, I'm not sure it's jingoistic, exactly. It's no better than the demonization of commies in the 1950s.

      He's a rule of thumb for you on the whole "terrorism" thing. Ask yourself this: If I change the word "terrorist" to "communist" and pretend it's happening during the fifties, do I laugh at the poor paranoid fools?

      Let's try it.

      "The story so far: You are an undercover CI

  • I guess... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Nolkyan ( 845268 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:48PM (#13910319)
    ...Brewster Jennings couldn't stop the incoming terrorist attack on his server...

  • FFS (Score:2, Informative)

    by Anonymous Coward
    Ok so NASA World Wind gets high resolution terrain mapped Moon data, lots of people submit the article to /. all get rejected, someone makes a game for google and /. say "WOW OMFG how cool we mustwrite an article"

  • The only thing I found (Score:5, Funny)

    by 13bPower ( 869223 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:50PM (#13910333) Homepage Journal
    Is that Bostons roads are REALLY messed up.

  • Google Earth games too (Score:5, Informative)

    by Lord Satri ( 609291 ) <{alexandreleroux} {at} {gmail.com}> on Sunday October 30, 2005 @03:54PM (#13910357) Homepage Journal
    OgleEarth points to three games involving GoogleEarth, Earth Contest [googleearthgame.com], GoogleEarthing [googleearthing.com] and GEwar [googleearthhacks.com]. Taken from http://industry.slashgisrs.org/article.pl?sid=05/1 0/07/134251 [slashgisrs.org]

  • Jingoism (Score:2, Insightful)

    by NitsujTPU ( 19263 )
    extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy (source m-w.com)

    I don't really think of this as Jingoism. Fighting terrorists to prevent them from killing people in your country (particularly after they've done things like, say that they want to kill people in your country, is pretty natural.

    Jingoism might be things like shooting illegal immigrants trying to run across the border from Mexico, such as the Minutemen are accused of doing. Notice the difference.
    • You're right, that was flamebait. Clarifying that protecting your country is not jingoism, while killing people who are relatively innocent is jingoism. Thanks for the mod. Of course, Zonk wasn't at all pitching some flamebait in the article.

    • Re:Jingoism (Score:2, Interesting)

      by minus_273 ( 174041 )
      "Jingoism might be things like shooting illegal immigrants trying to run across the border from Mexico, such as the Minutemen are accused of doing. Notice the difference."

      WTF I know slashdot has a leftist slant, but can you provide any links? how many illegals have been shot? any facts to back up that accusation?
      • Accused. I didn't say that they were doing it.

        I believe in the enforcement of the law. I'm not trying to say that we should permit lawbreaking activity. I just said that they were accused of such.
  • Update (Oct 30, 2005): Oh crap, here comes the Slashdotting.. The server probably won't be able to take the beating so if the game doesn't work now bookmark us and return in a few days time. Sorry! - Craig

    This is from BrewsterJennings.com [slashdot.org].
  • Run around the world trying to stop a terrorist from carrying an attack. Expect a full-fledged investigation from the Patriot Act police soon.

  • Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Score:5, Funny)

    by x0dus ( 163280 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @04:06PM (#13910441)
    Google helped me found her [google.ca].. She's in Cairo, Egypt.

  • Why in the hell (Score:3, Interesting)

    by dknj ( 441802 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @04:10PM (#13910466) Journal
    would you submit your site to slashdot when you already know you can't handle a slashdotting? Seriously, he submitted the article then writes on his site "here comes the slashdotting, come back later".

    Just my $0.02

  • For Cheaters (Score:2, Interesting)

    by scienceguy55 ( 904879 )
    To get a rediculous amount of time left, type the following into yor address bar
    javascript:void(min=99999999);
    . To submit as the high score, type:
    javascript:void(hi_score(true));
    .

  • For those who are wondering .. (Score:5, Informative)

    by calvin1981 ( 922478 ) on Sunday October 30, 2005 @04:43PM (#13910685)
    Brewster Jennings and co. [wikipedia.org] is a "real" company. The CIA agent Valerie Plame [wikipedia.org], whose cover was blown for political reasons, "worked" for Brewster Jennings.
  • In case you're wondering what the name Brewster Jennings [wikipedia.org] refers to, it's the CIA shell company that was exposed along with Valerie Plame's identity.
  • My favorite part of this game was looking up the word "jingoistic".
  • Thank god this has Slashdot's attention, maybe now someone can tell me where Charles Manson is imprisoned?

    It's the first step in one of the sequences, and I could not find it. I tried 4 different major California prisons, each of which had been indicated by some research (via Google, natch).

    On a related note, how does hinting work? I turn it on but I see no effect.

  • ... but all I got was this error message [blueyonder.co.uk]!

  • The game seems fun and all, but I found it impossible to play, specifically with the counter in place. That is, I think that when you take into account factors such as the speed of google maps, the area of the map which you could click on, the rate of zoom, etc, it is very, very close to the 10 minutes allotted. This is of course, ignoring the human controllable factors such as the time it takes to read the clues or make up your mind onto where to click next. I've tried twice, playing with nearly dead-on "t
  • The Google Maps API is so open and easy to develop, this has caused stuff like this to develop. You have to hand it to Google for creating such an easy to use tool like that, I expect to see some great innovative sites based around different ways to use this API. Congratulations to everyone involved.

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