Game where the map is the whole of earth

[lilc]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-02-04-ex-ubisoft-devs-are-recreating-the-entire-planet-using-drones

 

Ex-Ubisoft devs have founded an indie company called Pixyul and are using drones to map out the world and then put it in an action RPG called ReROLL

 

 

"Using small civilian drones, like the eBee mini-drone developed by senseFly, a partner of Pixyul, our intention is to drone source and recreate the entire planet one square kilometer at a time," the wildly ambitious new indie outfit explained. "These autonomous drones are equipped with small digital HD cameras and they map out the environment by taking thousands of pictures. These pictures are processed with existing 3D software to reconstructs the actual environment as 3D objects. This data and these 3D objects will generate the game's environment or in video game terms, the level design"

 

This is to ambitious to believe, what are your thoughts?

 

Their video

 

 

 

Edit- They also have a faq with more information http://rerollgame.com/about/faq/

[MbV93]

So... do the developer shit money!? How are they doing this!?

[Misanthrope]

Drones? Really, drones? Boy those kickstarters would say anything and probably just steal google maps/earth anyway

[flibberdipper]

Interesting.... Too bad the game will probably be MASSIVE to install. They'll give you a 500GB WD external drive and that will be the install disk. lol

[heineygoat]

Top down is a shame. Imagine this in FPS.

[Kilerbomb]

This is a top-down 2D game.... Are you kidding me? 

 

They could have done SO MUCH MORE with this. I was really excited, then extremely disappointed when watching the video.

[Cwazywazy]

I don't have high hopes for this, but a 3D thing like this for GTA would be AWESOME. (Everyone could actually live in their real homes in GTA )

[Lyons]

Why do they ruin concepts like this with point-and-click. First person would be so much better; if they want realism then make it how we see it!

[Jaybird]

Expectations rise and crushed. guess its back to planetside 2.

[The Great Lord Mccodi]

if they want realism then make it how we see it!

If they want realism, they would make a simulator.

[Lyons]

If they want realism, they would make a simulator.

 

I think it's indisputable that point and click games of this nature are terrible.

[lilc]

Why do they ruin concepts like this with point-and-click. First person would be so much better; if they want realism then make it how we see it!

This is very early proof of concept. I'm hoping if this does get made, it is changed.

[scaryjam823]

Cool concept, bad execution. It's probably going to flop.

[AlexGoesHigh]

mapping the planet is going to take them forever

[TheBLOODYTOXIC]

Top down is a shame. Imagine this in FPS.

 

Dayz without the Z

[mgsstar]

This would probably be the most expensive game to develop and will probably take a while to map the whole earth. BRICK 1 is ready in mid 2015 so it won't be releasing this year.

[heineygoat]

This is a top-down 2D game.... Are you kidding me? 

 

They could have done SO MUCH MORE with this. I was really excited, then extremely disappointed when watching the video.

IKR. I feel like its comparable to someone making affordable, extremely powerful quantum computing chip, only capable of running Windows Vista.

[TopWargamer]

Saw this and got really excited, then realized that it was a top down 2D game. Boo.

[LordTumnas]

Expectations rise and crushed. guess its back to planetside 2.

I totally agree

[Kamina]

Sounds like a redundant game but the concept is cool.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

LOL all that for a point and click. If they made the game like Arma it would be cool.

[Clueless]

Did people actually expect this to be a 3d game?

[Imaginaerum]

Hasn't this been done in Civ V...

[RuecanOnRails]

Too ambitious, scan the world 1km^2 at a time... Just not practical, also would be breaking a lot of privacy laws in various regions. They would be better off using existing satellite data and 3D explorable regions.

 

Personally Outtera/anteworld looks more promising to me. Currently in playable alpha being developed as a side project. Re-creates the entire planet in a seamless 3D environment using detailed satellite data for topography and fractal calculations. It includes a goolge maps plugin for "gps" which allows you to explore the world and know where you are.

 

[Guest]

Top down is a shame. Imagine this in FPS.

yea when i was watching this i was really hyped up then i saw the game play and lost intrest