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Google Maps Pacman
- gfrench27 12y agoi'm too old for this ... while it's amusing, i do not intend to plunge into the abyss of time lost to the exploration of things of small importance.
- eljimmy 12y agoD:
- ChrisClark 12y agoThen get off our lawn. :P
- imgabe 12y agoWell, I'm glad you at least had the time to write us all this little note informing us of how valuable your time is.
- nmc 12y agoNot available from every country (at the time of writing this). I feel so left out. EDIT: I was wrong, just that it is not available in Safari. Works with Chrome.
- smhenderson 12y agoThanks, I figured it was a browser issue but I was wondering what I was supposed to be seeing. All I got was the regular maps page. Finally tried in Chromium on Debian and wow, fun!
- notvplez 12y agoWorks fine in Safari 7.1.3 for me.
- roghummal 12y agoHmm, I'm using Safari, no problem here.
- vivien 12y agoThis is an awesome piece of work. metagame: find the hardest/simplest level on earth :) (I got Manhattan vs Tokyo)
- ewindisch 12y agoThe one in Giza, Egypt is quite challenging.
- jcl 12y agoSomeone pointed out to me that the Arc de Triomphe is quite fun, with a big enough window size.
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- pimlottc 12y agoThe Taj Mahal makes a near perfect Pacman grid: https://www.google.com/maps/@27.173227,78.0411062,18z/data=!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@27.173227,78.0411062,18z/data=!... It's not a great grid overall, but the zig-zag crookedness of Lombard Street is pretty fun to go through: https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8020373,-122.4196734,18z/data=!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@37.8020373,-122.4196734,18z/dat... Actually, in terms of snaking streets, while Snake Alley in Iowa is not as long, it makes for a much more playable grid: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8118721,-91.1064303,18z/data=!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8118721,-91.1064303,18z/data...
- noedig 12y agoThat's cool, but I wish they had spent the time making Google Maps usable again.
- leeoniya 12y agothis makes it usable again: https://maps.google.com/maps?dg=optperm&output=classic https://maps.google.com/maps?dg=optperm&output=classic until they kill it off entirely :\ there is no version of the GL-enabled maps that ever ran faster or better for me than the basic tiled original.
- dheera 12y agoI can't stand how the whole UI jumps around, rearranges and resizes itself every time I try to do something. Seriously, buttons should stay put.
- percept 12y agoAgreed, and the search input stealing focus at page load when I'm trying to use the zoom shortcut keys always gets me. (So I see a lot of "===" or "---" in the text field and have to fight it by clicking on the map, usually twice as we face off in a tug-of-war.)
- yebyen 12y agoI see this kind of behavior every day in gmail and it drives me batty. I'll use the 'l' shortcut to bring up the label drawer, start typing the name of my label, and three to four characters later gmail is actually ready for me to start typing. Then I'll backspace out and re-type what I already typed, and Gmail highlights and decides I must want the third entry in the list for some reason, and makes it highlighted. So I'm moving over to the arrow keys. The same kind of behavior in the search input as you're describing, too. Sometimes I get auto-suggest appearing after only one keystroke, sometimes it takes two. There seems to be no rhyme or reason, other than after a while I can usually somehow predict when my query will begin to be understood by the suggestion engine. The inconsistency is really jarring, but just below the threshold where I start looking for another service because of how much it annoys me. Sort of like when my external monitor is physically positioned on the left side of my desk, but every time I plug it into the laptop it gets the virtual location off the right side of my screen.
- azurelogic 12y agoApril Fools is the new Black Friday. It's creeping into the day before. Soon, all of March is going to be prank month.
- magicalist 12y agoThis is the April Fools stuff I don't mind. Not a "prank" or fake story, just a cool thing you might not be able to justify at any other time.
- martinml 12y agoI guess it's because in Australia it has been April 1st for 3 hours already.
- hiharryhere 12y agoGoogle Maps still has a lot of development work done in Australia. So it doesn't surprise me that the april fool launched 'early' in their timezone.
- Millennium 12y agoIn this new global age, the International Date Line interferes somewhat with nailing down specific dates. In some parts of the world, it's already April 1.
- packetslave 12y agoA lot of the maps team is in Japan, so the maps April Fools stuff tends to launch at midnight GMT+9
- jpwagner 12y agopacman is a burner: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7870737,-119.2049763,18z/data=!1e3?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7870737,-119.2049763,18z/dat...
- mzs 12y agoThis reminds me of when the google doodle was a mini-pacman game, neat it still works! https://www.google.com/#q=pacman https://www.google.com/#q=pacman
- baddox 12y agoThe nearly 45 degree orientation of streets in SF Soma sure do make it difficult to play.
- _nullandnull_ 12y agoCool but I'm pretty sure someone needs to read up on the algorithms used by the ghosts... http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-man-ghost-behavior http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m...
- AceJohnny2 12y agoI was wondering whether they paid attention to that. There's definitely different behaviour depending on the ghosts (red always follows you)
- benhamner 12y agoNOW WE KNOW how the self-driving cars work!
- bchen 12y agoThey should implement one-way streets, where you have to obey the direction but ghosts don’t, to make Pacman even more interesting.
- itsbits 12y agoGood but not that useful..
- lkbm 12y agoIngress is Pacmanified as well today--various icons are Pacmen or ghosts.
- mdellabitta 12y agoPhoto evidence: http://i.imgur.com/7xzpTas.jpg http://i.imgur.com/7xzpTas.jpg
- madhavcp 12y agoThis reminds of the recent Pixels movie trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHprLW48no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAHprLW48no
- hoopism 12y agoWas hoping to find some interesting links to levels: I'll start https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6395308,-71.3158648,18z/data=!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@42.6395308,-71.3158648,18z/data...
- chippy 12y agoif you go to Mountain View...
- bryondowd 12y agoFinally! Something good to come from the way this traffic circle was butchered! https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4314342,-74.5802579,18z/data=!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@39.4314342,-74.5802579,18z/data...
- eightysteele 12y agoThis is how DeepMind will train its pacman AI. Brilliant. :)
- chiph 12y agoNo fair! The people in the midwest get an easy grid system! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Land_Survey_System