Google Maps is adding new kinds of terrain details for its platform that game developers can exploit.
Google Maps is adding new kinds of terrain details for its platform that game developers can exploit.
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Google Maps platform adds new styles and gameplay options for mobile games

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Google unveiled a platform a year ago that enable game developers to create location-based games based on its Google Maps technology. And now the company is unveiling new options for art styles and gameplay just ahead of the Game Developers Conference.

A number of game developers have used the platform in the past year to make games like Ludia’s Jurassic World: Alive. Those games used the power of Google Maps and real-time global understanding of the world to take mobile gaming to the next level.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.