Allmaps Arcade 🕹

Put the historical maps back where they belong! Be quick. The faster you are, the more points you'll earn.

Play Allmaps Arcade on https://arcade.allmaps.org. 🕹🎮

About

Allmaps Arcade is a game made by Bert Spaan. The development of the initial version was commissioned by the Delft University of Technology Library.

The game is part of Allmaps, an open source project for curating, georeferencing and exploring IIIF maps.

Credits:

• Concept & design: Luuk van de Ven, Bert Spaan and Jules Schoonman
• Background map data © OpenStreetMap. Protomaps is used to host, style and render the background map.
• Built with SvelteKit, MapLibre and XState.
• Georeferenced maps come from the collections of partner institutions of the Allmaps project as well as from other libraries, archives and museums with IIIF map collections.

Arcade cabinet

Roadmap

We're working on adding the following features to Allmaps Arcade:

• Highscores list
• Show metadata about map (title, description) as well as links to the holding institution
• Share results, generate image after each game that you can share, with score and links to maps.
• Publish instructions how to build cabinet on GitHub
• Add easy/medium/hard difficulty levels

Running locally

Install dependencies:

pnpm install

Run development server:

pnpm run dev

Cabinet version

The cabinet version of Allmaps Arcade is designed to run offline. If an internet connection is available at startup, it builds the latest version of Allmaps Arcade from GitHub and downloads new maps. The computer in the cabinet runs a web server that serves the following files:

• A Protomaps pmtiles files of the whole world.
• A copy of the Georeference Annotations listed in config.yaml.
• A copy of the IIIF image tiles of each image specified in the Georeference Annotations.

Joystick and buttons

The Allmaps Arcade cabinet uses the I-PAC2 USB interface the joystick and buttons to keyboard keys.

The following pins and keys are used: