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Artillery was one of the oldest computer games. One would calculate the trajectory of a projectile, then lob a low res blob up and over, hopefully onto your opponent. Simple and fun! A google shows lots of places where this can be downloaded, incuding multiplayer online artillery.
I propose that
the game be done using Google Earth maps. Players would choose geographic coordinates to defend. They would, of course, use railguns to attack one another. Side view of appropriate scale could be overlaid to show the path of the projectile. The areas of the map hit would of course be replaced by a crater. The craters would simply be drawn on top of the Google Earth map by the game program. Varying levels of difficulty could be incorportated: altitude of target, wind speed, and rotation of the earth.
The Olympic Games on Google Earth
http://bbs.keyhole....Cat=0&Number=294887
Funny how they've shunned Curling off to the corner. [RayfordSteele, Feb 10 2006]
Something like this, I presume?
http://www.scorched3d.co.uk/
[Cuit_au_Four, Feb 10 2006]
Invent a game using google
http://www.google.com/apis/
That scorched 3d linked up there is a little more involved than what I was thinking of. I was thinking of Artillery circa 1979, maybe on a Commodore64 . [bungston, Feb 13 2006]
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Interestingly enough, there are no people on google earth. |
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Sure there are. They are just little. You can see people playing softball in central park. |
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I could see this as a new Civ 3 upgrade. |
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I kinda expected this to be a new way to aim military weaponry, and came in prepared to say that this was already baked and implemented. I like the game version, however. This is truly brilliant, as it allows you to play around your hometown, adding a bit of excitement and territorial (sp?) protectiveness to the game. The thought of defending your home turf would motivate people to play better, too. |
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Incoming bun! <cue lame digital whistling sound> |
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There really needs to be an entire category for Google * ideas. Somewhere. |
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I'd love to give you a bun, but unfortunately [Shz] just hit my bakery. |
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Umm, you don't think this might assist terrorists in plotting their nefarious deeds more easily? |
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I'm sure they haven't thought of that already. |
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/this might assist terrorists / |
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[ye], thank you for pointing this out. In this simulation, gravity will be secretly set to 9.7 m/s2. If the terrorists try to launch missiles using data garnered from playing this game, the joke will be on them! |
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