GR8CTZ for Chromecast
$0.79
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About GR8CTZ for Chromecast
GR8CTZ - Great Cities of the World - is an educational and addictive city guessing geography game. You can play against your friends or alone against the clock. The Street View appears on a TV screen via Chromecast; each out of up to 4 players can in turn look around and move about the city streets using their Android devices as controllers. As soon as anyone can guess the city, they can try to select one from the list. Your goal is to guess more cities than your opponents in the shortest time and with the least number of guesses.
You start in an iconic spot (Times Square, if you are in New York, or Red Square in Moscow) or in random point of the city. You can limit yourself to the Top 40 most famous cities of the world, or to the capitals, or to the cities of North America or Europe, or to English-speaking or Spanish-speaking cities, etc.; or you can try all 175+ cities from Acapulco to Yaroslavl. You have 3 guesses for each city; after two wrong guesses you'll be transported to an iconic spot, if you didn't start in one. The game can be played in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.
In portrait mode you use gestures: swipes to look around, pinch to zoom in and out; in landscape mode your phone or tablet acts more like a video game controller with buttons for the actions.
If you don't have a Chromecast device, the only use of this App would be its Daydream service, and the beautiful Daydream it is: the rotating Street View of a random city, which changes every couple minutes. The iconic spots of the cities are shown and the names are slowly revealed. It shows the current time too, so one might consider it useful as well.
Before you buy, you can try a free version of the game (GR8CTZ for Chromecast FREE) which limits you to Top 40 cities and doesn't let you to look around and walk about. Whether or not you have Chromecast, you can check the Web version of the game at http://gr8ctz.com. The Web version has been used by geography teachers around the world (see classroom recommendations at http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=15153) and was played by thousands of people in 75 countries.
You start in an iconic spot (Times Square, if you are in New York, or Red Square in Moscow) or in random point of the city. You can limit yourself to the Top 40 most famous cities of the world, or to the capitals, or to the cities of North America or Europe, or to English-speaking or Spanish-speaking cities, etc.; or you can try all 175+ cities from Acapulco to Yaroslavl. You have 3 guesses for each city; after two wrong guesses you'll be transported to an iconic spot, if you didn't start in one. The game can be played in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, or Spanish.
In portrait mode you use gestures: swipes to look around, pinch to zoom in and out; in landscape mode your phone or tablet acts more like a video game controller with buttons for the actions.
If you don't have a Chromecast device, the only use of this App would be its Daydream service, and the beautiful Daydream it is: the rotating Street View of a random city, which changes every couple minutes. The iconic spots of the cities are shown and the names are slowly revealed. It shows the current time too, so one might consider it useful as well.
Before you buy, you can try a free version of the game (GR8CTZ for Chromecast FREE) which limits you to Top 40 cities and doesn't let you to look around and walk about. Whether or not you have Chromecast, you can check the Web version of the game at http://gr8ctz.com. The Web version has been used by geography teachers around the world (see classroom recommendations at http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=15153) and was played by thousands of people in 75 countries.
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Game History & Updates
What's Changed
10 more cities (from Greece, Indonesia, Laos, and Serbia) added - now there are 187 cities total.
Updates for the libraries.
Bug fixes.
10 more cities (from Greece, Indonesia, Laos, and Serbia) added - now there are 187 cities total.
Updates for the libraries.
Bug fixes.
Price update Price changed from $0.99 to $0.79.
Version update GR8CTZ for Chromecast was updated to version 1.0.10
Version update GR8CTZ for Chromecast was updated to version 1.0.8
More downloads GR8CTZ for Chromecast reached 500 - 1 000 downloads
What are users saying about GR8CTZ for Chromecast
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by D####:
by D####:
I love the idea of this but it just won't seem to cast or do anything. The TV screen goes blank and then eventually times out and goes back to the home screen while nothing happens on the app. Is there a fix for this?
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by D####:
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Don't waste your money. It doesn't work.
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by K####:
by K####:
Ok needs work
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by W####:
by W####:
Please update your graphics. Seems fun, but terrible interface.
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by K####:
by K####:
Uses google street view to show a city and you have to guess where it is. Great idea but needs to be a bit slicker.
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by U####:
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The only thing someone needs to do to "game" the system is to press the guess button right away. Then the person's competition cannot guess. This needs to be changed, or there needs to be a better point system to reflect that the person did not know the answer when they pressed the button. It is a neat idea, but not very well implemented. It could be a lot of fun with some extra work put into design and programming.
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by F####:
by F####:
This game seems really neat, but it keeps saying that it disconnected from the Chromecast, and to check and see if it is still on. Every time the Chromecast is still on. This is happening so much that I haven't been able to finish one game. Please fix this, because I think this will be a really fun game if the bugs are fixed.
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by E####:
by E####:
I love showing this app off, but it crashes 1 out of every 3 games and I have to reboot the Chromecast.
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by C####:
by C####:
Not bad. It's cool to see international cities on the big screen via Google maps street view. The controls have two arrows. The controls don't seem to be displaying properly on my nexus 7. I have a ^ and a V and that is it. I can swipe left or right to look around, but the instructions say there are supposed to be buttons for that.
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by H####:
by H####:
I Enjoy it, it's fun but gets stuck alot.. Worth playing but can get frustating because the Google images take a long time to load when moving around.
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by J####:
by J####:
Getting a few crashes though
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by C####:
by C####:
Great job on education and I like how fast it is going from phone to Chromecast but I know it's gets its images online via another source in the phone itself or not that I am not sure of but it does force close every once in awhile until that problem is fix I will only give it 4 stars but it really deserves 5.
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by C####:
Great app, love playing this on my Chromecast, street view is great and some very beautiful cities. App does crash allot, hopefully a fix will come soon... gs4 - aokp - 4.4KitKat
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by H####:
More than a little jerky on my Samsung tablet, but incredibly cool concept. Can't wait to see how things like this develop. I scored a 480 my first try. Amazing how many little clues there are.
by Y####:
Great app, love playing this on my Chromecast, street view is great and some very beautiful cities. App does crash allot, hopefully a fix will come soon... gs4 - aokp - 4.4KitKat