Brainstorms/notes/other goodies:

 

Maps:

-         Game Map Types:

-         - Celestial maps (space travel)

-         - Transport maps (warp points/airship dropoff/etc.)

-         - (over)world maps (abstracted big picture, level maps)

-         - Dungeon maps (random, pre-made)

-         - Maze vs. labyrinth

-         - open world (SL, GTA)

-    - treasure maps

-    - raceway maps (subset of world maps/minimaps?)

-    - minimaps

-    - built-in vs. discoverable vs. uncoverable

-    - territory/battle maps (RTS)

-    - changing/changeable maps (Populous)

-    - maps that show where you've been

-    - user-created maps

 

 

Other map types:

- concept/idea maps (brainstorming tools), flowcharts

- atlases

- interactive (Y! Maps, googleMaps/Google Earth)

 

Links:

 

- Mapmaking:

    - http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/

    - http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/

    - http://worldkit.org/ [this thing is the bomb!]

    - http://autorealm.sourceforge.net/download.php

- Video Game Maps

    - http://www.vgmaps.com

    - http://ian-albert.com

    - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_design

    - http://gamasutra.com/features/20060425/shahrani_01.shtml

    - http://www.sentex.net/~dchapes/ifm/

    - http://portfolio16.de/zelda/map4/map_en.htm

- SL Maps

    - http://www.slmaps.com/

    - http://secondlife.com/apps/mapapps/homepage_map (interactive, slightly annotated!)

    - http://www.frappr.com/secondlife

    - http://slurl.com

    - http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/games/secondlifemapwidget.html

    - http://www.mappanovus.com/

    - http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/?page_id=431

    - http://cruxy.com/sl/map/

    - http://bloghud.com/ (MAP ANNOTATIONS!!!)

    - http://blog.signpostmarv.name/2008/01/13/improving-the-mnsl-map-api/

- Other maps:

    - http://downloads.raileurope.com/map_europe/france.html (they call this interactive!)

    - http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/06/05/books/20050605_BOOKMAP_GRAPHIC.html (Literary Map of Manhattan)

    - http://www.storybookengland.com/

    - http://www.multimap.com/

 

 

Possible Bib Items:

- Henry Jenkins: http://www.stanford.edu/class/history34q/readings/Cyberspace/FullerJenkins_Nintendo.html

- Blog: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/google_earth_and_sketchup.html

- Dorling, D. and Fairburn, D. (1997) Mapping: Ways of Representing the World. Harlow: Pearson (a concise, informative and well-balanced introduction to maps, their history, use and future).

 

 

Questions to ponder:

- Is genre related to map type or even map presence?

 

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