Games

This morning’s launch of Maps for Unity brings the full stack of location tools to the world’s most popular game development platform and shows that location and maps are the new building blocks for AR and VR games . We think the maps look amazing and are insanely fast. Bringing location and maps to game developers is a big deal. Pokemon Go had maps because Niantic, the game’s creators, started as part of Google and the company is run by John Hankey — the former CEO of Google Maps. The maps in Pokemon Go were customized because John secured special access to Google’s proprietary datasets . No one else could have maps like that, until now. ...

Bwahahahaha – I know what it is, but I can’t tell you. But you can now play a text adventure game, created by Andrew Plotkin , which will give you hints. Remember Adventure ? You really shouldn’t have wandered away from your tour guide. The gleam of glass in a deserted room caught your eye for just a moment… but with that mob of chattering tourists out of sight, the MakerBot facility doesn’t seem quite as friendly as it did a moment ago. ...

Following is an outstanding 30 minute presentation by Jesse Schell at DICE 2010 explaining how our life is just one big game. PS3 Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5 Points everywhere, followed by an optimistic call to use this to make us better.