GlobeKit – Unity Google Maps Plugin
UPDATE: GlobeKit v1.2 is under approval by the Asset Store. It contains important bugfixes related to landmarks and a bunch of other map features!
What is it?
GlobeKit is an all-in-one solution that provides you full access to the iOS MapKit framework (Google Maps data) for your games! This plugin fully pushes your games to a new level of gameplay and social interaction through the location services. Build parallel worlds, create smart ways of using your player location to make the gameplay more innovative and fascinating! Location based games are going to be one of the future tracks in the mobile games industry as great product such as Shadow Cities or MyTown and GoWar did clearly show so far, so developers will better start setting the new standards in this new game field before anybody else!
How does it work?
Using GlobeKit is really straightforward! Just import the Unity package in your project and start using it through its C# interface. Here there are a list of feature of what you can do with this first version of GlobeKit:
- Create Map Views inside your Unity game in a fully customizable way (position, rotation, size, map type, zoom..)
- Travel instantly with one call either to the user location or a specified one.
- Create your custom landmarks on the map and have full control over them.
- Draw as many layers of geometry as you want on top it, thanks to the draw API subset.
- Full access to reverse geocoding. Do you want to know at which address your user is? Now you can with just one call!
- Map to textures and direct geocoding, please read below.
“Use of the Google Static Maps API is subject to a query limit of 1000 unique (different) image requests per viewer per day. Since this restriction is a quota perviewer, most developers should not need to worry about exceeding their quota. However, note that we enforce an additional request rate limit to prevent abuse of the service. Requests of identical images, in general, do not count towards this limit beyond the original request.”
Where Can I Get It?
GlobeKit is available on the Unity Asset Store , get it now!
CHeck GlobeKit in action!
Watch the Testbed App Tutorial!
