I Tried Creating a Game Using Real-world Geographic Data

2021-11-02

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A little experimental game I've been working on recently, where you fly around a tiny version of the world and deliver packages to various cities. Would love to hear any ideas you might have about how this could be taken further!

The next episode about this project's development is now available here: /youtube/video/UXD97l7ZT0w

The source files for this project are available here: https://github.com/SebLague/Geographical-Adventures.

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Earth data from:

https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

https://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/

https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/collection/1484/blue-marble?page=2

Music:

Faith - Michael FK

It Will Come Back - The Stolen Orchestra

Icicle Caverns - Cast of Characters

On Earth - We Dream of Eden

Nightingale - Emorie

Heart Caligraphy - Cody Martin

Cosmic Waves - Michael FK

Living - Borrtex

Wonderland - Shimmer

Falling Through the Hourglass - Sid Acharya

The Art of Loneliness - ANBR

Another Time Another Place - Sounds Like Sander

Summit - Gray North

Parachutes - Michael FK

Chapters:

0:00 Intro (feat. Ori)

0:36 In Which a Cube Becomes a Sphere

2:06 Topography and Bathymetry

2:38 Latitude and Longitude Conversions

3:24 A Vertically Exaggerated World

6:10 Flying About the Planet

7:35 Frustum Culling Optimization

8:20 Generating a Normal Map

10:09 A Splash of Colour

10:39 Countries and Cities

12:06 Drawing Borders

13:07 Country Highlights

15:37 Drawing the Oceans

18:01 Some Gigantic Boats

20:05 Cloud Experiments

24:08 Custom Shadow Casting

25:39 Atmosphere Test

26:44 Parachuting Packages

28:00 Let's Play!

31:27 Outro (feat. Ori and Beemo)