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Zelda-style maps of New York City based on Open Street Map

8bitnyc.com

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Now we just need a GPS-based iPhone app that shows the location of you and your friends in Zelda-style avatars. On this map.

It's still crazy to me that building such a thing is essentially a solved problem today.

It was only a matter of time. I'm surprised I haven't yet seen an FPS based on public map data. As our phones and other devices increasingly serve as a window into a parallel digital environment, I think we'll see geography used as a standard reference bridge between a lot of other things. At some stage you'll be able to play top-down Zelda on your phone while someone else plays Doom, but you're on the same map, based on or generated from your local geography. Visual styles for each player will be more of a graphic filter than any fundamental difference in game mechanics.

I recently bought a Nokia mobile which came with a (fairly poor) top down racing game based on the built-in mapping and GPS.[1]

The premise was that you could race around the town you were actually in, but the sheer volume of mapping data meant you were effectively driving a little red car around some generic-looking, practically identical, streets and roads. There was no identity in any of the places. Micro Machines back in the '90s was much more entertaining!

[1] http://store.ovi.com/content/26254

I want to zoom down to street level. Then walk up and down breaking boxes and burning shrubs looking for money.

I like the idea of it being more zelda-2 esque where once you go to a given town/location you are side scrolling. You could probably use most of the backgrounds/sprites from simons quest to get the desired effect for most of new york.

Wouldn't this look much cooler if turned 28.9 to the east (so avenues are fully vertical + streets fully horizontal)?

The site wasn't loading for me but here is a video with screenshots and commentary by the creator:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brett/8-bit-cities-real-...

I'm getting a video not found error.

Quick someone make a program to transform this into dwarf fortress worlds.

My favorite feature is that zooming in and out with Firefox's built-in zoom reveals more or less of the map.

That remembers me the time when i played sim city on my C64 !

A Hipster draws near! Command?

(F)ight (R)un (S)pell (I)tem

Wrong game. :)

Fair, but the squares looked more like Dragon Warrior 3 than Zelda.

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