Google Earth As a Game Engine For Ship Simulation

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:load on google servers

[91degrees]

Exponential? As in increasing geometrically? I don't think that's likely.

Google's servers handle a lot of data, so I doubt this will even be a significant increase.

Its clever but...

[gnalre]

Collision detection leaves a lot to be desired. However it is kinda cool to driver a cruise line up Rotterdam high street.

But all in all I'll stick to ShipSimulator 2008

Re:only available on Windows and Mac OS X 10.4+

[hr.wien]

Linux/OSX won't magically be able to run Windows executables just because you change your browser's UA string.