I like Google Earth as a platform, at least the general idea, mostly because of the unlimited zoom. Games like Sins of a Solar Empire benefit greatly from the a

I like Google Earth as a platform, at least the general idea, mostly because of the unlimited zoom. Games like Sins of a Solar Empire benefit greatly from the ability to see arbitrarily large swathes of territory at once, while games with a more limited zoom, or none (like my old favorite Command & Conquer: Red Alert) are much harder to develop a coherent mental big picture for. I noted they plan to expand: "Ships" will become a small module in a much bigger game concept for which we seek investors. I wonder what that will be? I thought a cool game would be a multi-player Cold War-type sub-hunting game, where American frigates and submarines strive to track Soviet subs, and vice versa. The big "zoom-out" would include last-known positions and IDs, if known, surrounded by an ever-growing ring of possible range, until the target is reacquired. I don't know if such a game would actually be fun, and it would definitely take patience. Knowing that another human was controlling the submarine you seek and trying to predict his movements would be at least be diverting, I think.