Google Quest
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Google Quest
Go to Google maps, and click on "Quest" in the top right corner to instantly retro-game your world!
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Re: Google Quest
Damn!
I have a college assignment to do today; now I'm going to be up all night doing it.
Go to Loch Ness and zoom in. There's one monster.
StreetView is weird. I think they should have stuck to EGA colours ... maybe Google's developers are too young to have played games in EGA!
I have a college assignment to do today; now I'm going to be up all night doing it.
Go to Loch Ness and zoom in. There's one monster.
StreetView is weird. I think they should have stuck to EGA colours ... maybe Google's developers are too young to have played games in EGA!
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Re: Google Quest
There are two little nerds at Google's UK headquarters in Manchester, too ...
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It has a tendency to put coastal towns in the sea.
Checks ... "Seattle Engineering and Sales Office, Waterside Building, 651 N. 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103" would have been what I was looking at.
I was looking to see if the Troll Bridge in Seattle was featured - it isn't. But it should have been.
Oh, yes. The same two propeller heads appeared in Seattle outside what I thought was a burger bar, but there were plenty of offices too.Disembodied wrote:There are two little nerds at Google's UK headquarters in Manchester, too ...
Checks ... "Seattle Engineering and Sales Office, Waterside Building, 651 N. 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103" would have been what I was looking at.
I was looking to see if the Troll Bridge in Seattle was featured - it isn't. But it should have been.
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Re: Google Quest
Got another.SandJ wrote:Go to Loch Ness and zoom in. There's one monster.
Western USA --> Nevada --> Las Vegas. Go North North West and there's a lake. Just to the south of that lake is Area 51 ... where an alien in a spaceship is teleporting a cow on board!
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I was looking for something funny at Area 51 – you beat me to it! Haven't managed to spot a Yeti yet ...SandJ wrote:Western USA --> Nevada --> Las Vegas. Go North North West and there's a lake. Just to the south of that lake is Area 51 ... where an alien in a spaceship is teleporting a cow on board!
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Re: Google Quest
... and I've been looking for Cthulhu around the South Pacific, but it's pretty big ...
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Re: Google Quest
Thats interesting.
How about playing a real game based on Google Maps?
Try Parallel Kingdom, here.
I'm completely hooked to it. What is it? A Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game, where the whole real world is the basis of the game.
NB: if you join the game with the above link, I get some credits!
How about playing a real game based on Google Maps?
Try Parallel Kingdom, here.
I'm completely hooked to it. What is it? A Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game, where the whole real world is the basis of the game.
NB: if you join the game with the above link, I get some credits!
JazHaz
Thanks to Gimi, I got an eBook in my inbox tonight (31st May 2014 - Release of Elite Reclamation)!Gimi wrote:Maybe you could start a Kickstarter Campaign to found your £4500 pledge.drew wrote:£4,500 though! <Faints>
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Re: Google Quest
It's there. There is also a tumblr collecting screenies of all monsters: http://map-monster.tumblr.com/Disembodied wrote:Haven't managed to spot a Yeti yet ...
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Tsk! I never thought to try Mount Everest ...Commander McLane wrote:It's there. There is also a tumblr collecting screenies of all monsters: http://map-monster.tumblr.com/
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Re: Google Quest
At Googleplex , 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View there's a dinosaur surrounded by flamingoes, a green robot thingy and the two propeller-heads.
Hmm. I suppose I'd better get on with my college work then.Commander McLane wrote:It's there. There is also a tumblr collecting screenies of all monsters: http://map-monster.tumblr.com/
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Re: Google Quest
One monster found at the "efteling, the netherlands".... No, that was just the new icon for 'street view'
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Yeah, I had that at Stonehenge - turns out there's nothing there.Eric Walch wrote:No, that was just the new icon for 'street view'
I did find the two guys hanging about near the Sphinx though! The North pole turns out to be somewhat outside the map. The leaning tower of Pisa and Ayers Rock have their own images...
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Re: Google Quest
Since you posted the link, its content is updated with a solution of all monsters. The person on the Mt Everest, it no monster, but just a mountaineer passing by. For Yeti, you must travel south. Search for "Nepal, Dhurkot" and you should find it.Commander McLane wrote:It's there. There is also a tumblr collecting screenies of all monsters: http://map-monster.tumblr.com/Disembodied wrote:Haven't managed to spot a Yeti yet ...
Nessie seems also not on the list of monsters, but is just one of the other artifacts on the map. Like a piece of the chineese wall.
And no monsters in the Netherlands or Belgium. I could have sworn that one lived next door.
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