Pretty cool idea by using open street maps you can download the location you want and play the game there, defend your neighborhood or loot your house.
The reviews seem decent but mention it needs a lot of tweaking as it just released on early access, like water not affecting where zombies can walk or elevation not being a thing.
Maybe this can get some more people interested in mapping
This is really cool, I’ve been mapping my area and thinking about making a game that does a similar thing, nothing special just thought it’d be fun to make something that tries to generate levels using map data. I’ve got plenty of other stuff to get on with and mapping is addictive enough on it’s own so i might just try this instead.
As a kid I always wished I could play video games in my home town. Imagine games like GTA in your neighborhood. Of course we are far away from that, but it is a great idea to dynamically generate environments based on available geo data. I can also imagine this can motivate people in mapping. Gamification is a strong vehicle, look at apps like StreetComplete that have gotten really popular in a short time and play around with badges and levels etc. thanks for sharing!
I had the same idea as a kid, I think around the time “true crime: streets of LA” came out. I wanted GTA: Your City, where it like connects to Google earth type of shit and recreates any city you want. That’d be so fun.
Whoa I didn’t know about street complete. I’ve been doing Google streetview for a while until they killed the way I was able to contribute, this looks interesting
That’s very cool, and if it gets people into improving the OSM maps in their areas all the better! I’ve tried but its very painstaking work. Needs better tooling and more public datasets to be imported tbh, not everything should just be crowdsourced.
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