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Talyn
2012-03-11, 08:56 PM
Hello, Playgrounders!

One of the perks of being in a sinister government conspiracy is that you get all the coolest, high-tech toys for your surveillance - satellite tracking, rooms full of monitors following the other side's every move, and big boards with information popped all over it.

You know, stuff that looks like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQMaWOz__5c).

So, here's the thing: I'm going to be running the next campaign my gaming group plays, and I was thinking of running a game of Hunter: the Vigil, where the PCs work for the shadowy monster-hunting Conspiracy known as Task Force Valkyrie. In order to maintain that hi-tech feel, I'd love to get my hands on some kind of software which would let me simulate that kind of satellite surveillance and data access. Clearly, something to extent of the example above is way beyond what I could create for a game, but something that gives a similar idea would go a long way towards bringing my players into the game.

Operating on the assumption that getting the full-blown video effect would be too sophisticated for an amateur like me, and would take too much time anyways, a program that would at least let me bring up maps of a city (taken from Google maps or someplace) and then highlight specific areas and put notes on the map would be helpful.

Grinner
2012-03-11, 09:58 PM
Well...Google Maps, GIMP...MS Paint... :smallwink:

I'm afraid there's little call for such things in the open-source community.

Edit: A good video editor would do the trick.

I've had fairly good results with VirtualDub (http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdub/?source=directory). You would want to combine it with Movie Maker, if you're on a Windows machine.