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Earth Contest Game Launch
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on Wednesday December 21, @09:42AM
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Ogle Earth and GIS user blog both point to the press release regarding Earth Contest, a Google Earth-based game. From the PR: " Using Google Earth’s new satellite imagery-based mapping product, we've created the world's biggest interactive game. [...] Key features of Earth Contest include:
· Free, fun, educational and challenging game
· Ultimate online challenge to beat the GameMaster
· Clues and interaction with other players from around the globe
· Online basic tutorial and clues via podcasts and blogs
· Fast and dynamic game play with hours of online fun
· Over 100,000 possible locations to find clues and solve puzzles
· Team play available and encouraged to advance in the game [...]"
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What is the Influence of Gaming on Geotechnology?
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Both Vector One and Spatial Sustain discuss this week what is the influence of gaming on geotechnology. From V1: "In fact, it can be argued that as GIS and geotechnology contribute real-world spatial data into the modeling and gaming environment – games becoming more reality based. [...] Gaming is shifting science to entertainment – make no mistake, some serious science is embedded into gaming development, tools and products. The shift that is taking place is more subtle, causing science to be fun and the pursuit of knowledge and discovery (key ingredients of science) to be entertaining." From SS: "Microsoft’s Virtual Earth technology is being married to their Flight Simulator software program to provide greater realism at multiple scales so that those piloting simulated aircraft have a more realistic experience from the cockpit. [...] We are in need of greater realism, and the expanded demand of the gaming community means that there is a revenue stream to pay for the collection of more detailed and realistic models. The geospatial community is in need of more interdisciplinary interaction, and the creation of more collaborative gaming platforms could help pave the way for more interactive simulation environments that could be harnessed to understand earth systems." I copied below a few geospatial games mentioned previously, yes, there's *a lot of them* (and much more that probably weren't shared on Slashgeo).
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Hmmm...
(Score:3, Interesting)