London: Ever wanted to lead a ball through a maze and learn about Google Maps at the same time?.
Yesterday the +Google Maps team released CUBE, a WebGL game on Chrome Experiments that lets you test your navigation skills using Google Maps. You can find and play CUBE here or in the Chrome Web.
It’s fun to play for novice gamers (see: me) or someone looking to kill some time, but at its core, it’s a promotional vehicle. You go through eight different levels: Manhattan, San Francisco, Paris, London, Tokyo, Las Vegas, the Mall of America, and a mix-match of all the different cities combined. You must use your cursor to guide a little blue ball through a maze of city streets and mall hallways to reach predetermined locations. After you complete one of these levels, a box will pop up and tell you how long it took you to finish the level and a little fact about how Google Maps can make your life better. It drops a couple mentions of Google Maps for Android in there as well.
There is currently no mention of it on the Google Maps or Google+ Games websites
Though the game itself is fairly lackluster, the promo video for it is actually pretty cool and involves a real, large cube turned by people in white gloves.
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