someone on twitter passed on a link to a site where one could track 11000 ships, live on a map. excited about the vast chunk of scrapable data i started chatting to my buddy tnobs about this, and we came up with a fun hack… but who’s got time to hack stuff for fun? well, i got way too excited and started right away. at the end of play the same day – this battleship inspired game was live.
the idea is pretty simple – select weapon and click anywhere on the world map. if you’re lucky you’ll hit a ship. much like the old battleship board game, with two exceptions. it’s based on real data – the ships are real ships, on the seven seas of the world. and this “game” lack all the drama of a real game… try it here!
well, i can’t see that i’ll be hacking away any further on this project, it was a fun proof of concept and i learnt a little. if you get any great ideas on how to hack this into something usable, email me.