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The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Re: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Post by throwforfeds »

frankhorrigan wrote: post #40

I lived in SF for nearly 20 years, though I mostly spend my time in New York now. And genuinely this made me emotional. Was weird as hell walking around my back yard. Going to the spot in Dolo that I used to haunt in my 20s. My favorite tennis courts and hill bombs, walked the entire disc golf course, etc.

This made me super nostalgic as well. I've lived in NYC for 20 years, but spent a ton of time in SF early in my career (starting in 2008). I love NYC, but I've been sort of feeling like a change lately and this made me feel like subletting a place for a few months and getting back to the slower pace of SF.

Re: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Post by pimlottc »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #70

'Vette was a racing game from the 90's (I think?) that covered San Francisco. "Released on 3 floppy disks", ha ha. Obviously without the rich dataset we have now. (Clicking on the following link ignores the trailing exclamation point in MacOS Safari for me.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vette ! I did a voxel (ray casting) lunar lander that used actual NASA moon data ( https://mooncraft2000.com ).

Screenshots of Vette! at MobyGames:

https://www.mobygames.com/game/799/vette/screenshots/dos/

Re: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Post by marciob »

frankhorrigan wrote: post #40

I lived in SF for nearly 20 years, though I mostly spend my time in New York now. And genuinely this made me emotional. Was weird as hell walking around my back yard. Going to the spot in Dolo that I used to haunt in my 20s. My favorite tennis courts and hill bombs, walked the entire disc golf course, etc.

good to know your feelings, but how different it is from using google maps?

Re: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Post by dimitarbogdanov »

fusslo wrote: post #11

man what happened to loading bars? I'm sitting here watching the block bounce in a circle and I have no idea if the game is actually loading or not. Tried turning off PopUpOff. Tried turning off adblock. as it turns out it just isn't loading (firefox on win 11, if that matters)

The LLM they used to create this does not care for loading bars XD

Re: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Post by aguynamedben »

frankhorrigan wrote: post #40

I lived in SF for nearly 20 years, though I mostly spend my time in New York now. And genuinely this made me emotional. Was weird as hell walking around my back yard. Going to the spot in Dolo that I used to haunt in my 20s. My favorite tennis courts and hill bombs, walked the entire disc golf course, etc.

Same. I lived in SF for 15 years, my kids were toddlers in the Marina... this is so freaking awesome and really brings out the nostalgia! It matches my memories exactly.

Exact proportions are crazy. I had the reverse experience doing sim racing... do a track a bunch, finally visit it in person - and it looks the exact same as in your mind.

Re: The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Post by aguynamedben »

marciob wrote: post #83
frankhorrigan wrote: post #40

I lived in SF for nearly 20 years, though I mostly spend my time in New York now. And genuinely this made me emotional. Was weird as hell walking around my back yard. Going to the spot in Dolo that I used to haunt in my 20s. My favorite tennis courts and hill bombs, walked the entire disc golf course, etc.

good to know your feelings, but how different it is from using google maps?

The free will of walking. I walked around the city using certain routes, and I can freely replicate those walks in this. I did walks I did when my kids were 3 years old. Google Maps isn't fluid enough to do this.
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