A two-player car racing simulator, using Google Map's Streetview to load a 'real-life' track.

The goal is to race and win against your friend around an unfamiliar location. It tests your skills in racing, as well as your navigation ability while driving.

GMap Racer uses a familiar racing simulator as a means of building empathy - potentially exposing player's perspectives to unfamiliar territory in another part of the world.

You and your friend are randomly placed in a street location around the world (provided that it is publicly available on Google Maps). Two generic cars - red for you/blue the your friend, are then superimposed on top of the Streetview of your starting location, where you are then given a destination on a map, displayed in the top-left corner in a bird's eye view. The destination would be a randomised point 10km from the starting point. In traditional racing game fashion, you are given a countdown, which then marks the beginning of the race.

The cars you use will obey all the real-world physics of a factory-line Japanese imported car, and limited physics between the two cars (such as bumping into, cutting each other off) are accommodated for.

The rule is that cars can only travel in paths that Streetview allows - i.e. you can use any mapped road/pathway, and dead-ends naturally mean you have to turn around. The map uses Google Map's 'Plan Your Trip' application, which updates your location in real-time, and plots the shortest route to the destination, but since it is only the destination that is predetermined, it is up to you find the best route (Google Map's can sometimes can be incorrect in plotting the shortest route).

Platform: PC/Mac
Controls: QWERTY Keyboard:
- Arrow keys left/right for direction
- Spacebar + arrow keys up/down to accelerate/reverse respectively.

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