Mapping in the Dark - with Sonar
If you are tired of standard map-guessing games that rely on scouring satellite imagery or wandering through street-level panoramas, my new interactive game Sonar City offers a refreshing challenge. This game strips away the visual map entirely, plunging the world into shadow and leaving you with a single tactical tool: a glowing radar array. Your mission - if you choose to accept it - is to deduce the identity of a hidden mystery city based entirely on how surrounding global hubs register as blips on a radar screen. Playing the game requires a mix of spatial intuition and geographic triangulation. When a round begins, a radar sweep rotates 360° - dropping pings as it encounters major cities nearby. The angle of the blip on your screen indicates its exact directional bearing relative to the hidden city, while the text label tells you its true distance in miles. Under the hood, the entire experience is an elegant demonstration of client-side geospatial engineering. The ga...
