World Strike lets you flatten real buildings on OpenStreetMap streets
Multiplayer tanks that demolish real buildings from OpenStreetMap
World Strike is a browser-based multiplayer tank game built on OpenStreetMap data. Players pick any real city, drive a tank down actual streets, and knock buildings down — and the destruction persists for everyone in that world. You can also fight other tanks, defend your own neighborhood, and spray emoji tags on the rubble. A leaderboard tracks who has demolished the most buildings each week.
Drive a tank through any real city. Knock buildings down. They stay down for everyone.
- croniev
Just me or is this a bit cynical? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the gameplay is fun and everything. Just the concept makes me really uneasy, especially as I have a friend who's house was destroyed recently in war...
- erelong
Top comment is kind of skeptical of this kind of game idea, so let me go in a different direction (I'm not necessarily bothered by the game concept):
what other kinds of games could we create using OpenStreetMap?
Could the game have a "rebuilder" role for people to rebuild destroyed areas?
Could you do like a "Pokemon Go" and search for hidden treasure in different areas?
Could you just "mark" areas without destroying them, like capturing different areas with colors or something?
- peibin
It's just for fun guys. It's just a game !
Don't let game play yourself !
- heggy
Fun idea but horribly laggy. Just driving down a street and I would get bounced back constantly and make very little progress. Ping was showing up as much as 5000ms
- vfosnar
as an active osm contributor and community member and io games enjoyer i love this.
if the author is readin this by any chance pretty please improve the attribution placement, projects like this are whats bringin interested people in to help us build a better open map for everyone <3
- gosen
it's kind of entertaining as a game for sure, but I guess last few years changed me in a way that I felt sad when I played.. I guess because I thought that it can easily be a reality and it is a reality in a few places right now :(
of course there're still many games with violence which I played and I don't want to be a moralist, but here something clicked differently, is it the "real buildings" maybe?
- dasyatidprime
I can't load the thing, but the idea reminds me of the trope of adolescents playing early FPSes and making maps based on their homes and schools, for good or for bad…
- pjmlp
Neat idea, however in my home town it quickly gets stuck on the streets, maybe the collision testing isn't that great.