They call the game “Find Skull Island” based on the recent King Kong Movie directed by Peter Jackson. It is an excellent blend of a web site (in several languages) using Flash and Google Earth. The game has very well done graphics and uses clips, music and sounds from the movies. As you play along you get tasty morsels of downloads including “exclusive” unseen clips from the movie and wall papers. You also get placemarks and an image overlay of Skull Island somewhere in the ocean. After you get a few of the downloads and proceed to King Kong’s lair, you have to buy the DVD from sendit.com to proceed further (they give you a code you have to enter to proceed).
About Frank Taylor
Frank Taylor started the Google Earth Blog in July, 2005 shortly after Google Earth was first released. He has worked with 3D computer graphics and VR for many years and was very impressed with this exciting product. Frank completed a 5.5 year circumnavigation of the earth by sailboat in June 2015 which you can read about at Tahina Expedition, and is a licensed pilot, backpacker, diver, and photographer.
wow .. great combo of GE and website .. Skull island appears to be made up of cut pieces of existing landforms in GE .. here’s a post we made showing the top of NZ and a skull island overlay.
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/374353/an/0/page/0#374353
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Very good idea to have make this island for Google Earth! What don’t I include/understand, this is why near to Africa? Whereas that must be near to Singapore! What would have been well, it is to explore the island in High Resolution!