World Search

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  Game options

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  Main game screen

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  Game results page

Inspiration

We both enjoyed playing the original location guessing game, Geoguessr; however, that was recently changed to a pay-to-play format. Our game allows us to play a similar game using our own Google Cloud Credits.

What it does

The game allows you to select time limits, number of rounds, and rough areas in which you might be placed. You are then brought to a random streetview and are given a separate map to guess where you currently are. After submitting your guess you are brought to results page which gives you a round and total score.

How we built it

The front end is written in HTML/CSS. The backend is written in python and javascript and makes calls to the Google Maps API to get streetview and other data.

Challenges we ran into

Neither of us had used javascript before, either standalone or built into a website. We had also not used any of the Google Maps APIs

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We have a game that is fun to play! It's playable, free, and has made testing quite fun.

What we learned

Integrating javascript into websites and how to use some elements of the Google Maps API

What's next for World Search

We hope to add multiplayer at some point and make it more widely available. Currently we are using our personal Google Cloud Service API keys which means that we can't publicly release it without charging for it. We could potentially give users the option to use their own API key for their personal games.

Built With

• css
• flask
• google-cloud
• google-maps
• html
• javascript
• python