GeoGames
One of the side projects I worked on throughout the summer and into the fall was the GeoGames application for Reach the World, working directly with the people at Dangerous Media.
Although the GeoGames project isn’t quite yet live on Reach the World, it has been posted on Dangerous Media’s showcase, so I can finally show it off.
https://www.dangerousmedia.com/showcase/new/geogames_0.html
It uses some pretty fancy displacement mapping to create a 3D globe, which you can rotate in real time. Drag and drop continents, rivers, mountains, countries and their capitals.
I have to tell you, I learned a LOT about physical and political geography doing this program! Where are the Atlas mountains? the Irtysh River? Quick, what’s the capital of Mongolia? I know!