Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Where in the World - Map Games

Map games can be a lot of fun to play. They can also be a lot of fun to make. The following three interactive map games are all fun to play. They are also all on GitHub. This means that each of these games is easy to clone and adapt if you want to create your own map based geography game.

Quizzity


Play the Game & Clone the GitHub

In this simple map game you are given six different cities to identify by clicking on their correct locations on an interactive map. You gain points based on how near you are to the correct location and by how quickly you answer.

City-Guesser


Play the Game & Clone the GitHub

In this Mapbox based game you are shown different cities around the world. All you have to do is select the correct name for the city from a choice of four. If you guess correctly then you progress to the next round. Each city shown is more difficult than the last. The object of the game is to name as many cities as you can. The game finishes as soon as you guess a city wrongly.

Map Quiz


Play the Game & Clone the GitHub

Map Quiz is actually a compendium of a number of different map games in one package. On Map Quiz you can choose to play map games which test your knowledge of countries, cities or even national flags. If you guess correctly in this game you are rewarded with a little information box containing the selected country's flag, population and area size.

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