Shock horror: Nokia's maps are created by aliens and robots...
Published by Steve Litchfield at 17:15 UTC, May 22nd 2008
[Update: this is now live, no password needed] Nokia's latest Flash-based novelty site is about to go live. The Mapsters are a small tribe of robots and err... aliens, who specialise in trampling on perfectly good cities and turning them into two-dimensional maps. For a preview go to www.themapsters.com/preview and use username 'mapsters' and password 'preview'. And there we were thinking that Nokia's Maps were created by the Navteq people.... (watch out for the jaw-dropping Flash earthquake effect in the opening sequence)
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Categories: Software, Links of Interest
Platforms: General, S60 3rd Edition
News Discussion
tomsky
I didn't seem to need a username or password to get in and play the flash game, but maybe its just me...
Unfortunately, I used the superpower first off, so the whole thing seemed a bit short on replay value...
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you need the password when you download the mapsters media kit.
davidmaxwaterma
It looked ok...loading...I...loading...guess...loading.
Yet another flash infestation. I heard something about a new web standard that will make flash redundant - I hope it's true and it couldn't come too soon IMO :(
...and they named it 'Flash'! What a misnomer...all it does is slow everything down. OK, that's not all it does, but from a user point of view, that's the main thing *I* see. They should have called it 'Slug'.
Also, I didn't really notice any earthquake effect of any significance, but IMO it would have been somewhat untimely - sensitivity-wise - anyway.
ForReal!
this reminded me of the telly-tubbies - are they aiming this at the 4 year old smartphone market!
seriously having a giant green thing acting and sounding like it had taken too much LSD for it's own good wouldn't be my first choice of a presenter!
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