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  • Chinatown Wars does have some problems and gaps; there's no chatter on the radio and the minimap is a truculent beast that often leads you along the longest path, but these are minor quibbles and

    bit-tech.net Feed 2010

  • So Nokia decided to create a new kind of navigation, a zooming interface, called "minimap".

    OSNews 2009

  • Javascript 1.5, DOM2, SVG Tiny, XHTML, WML and it incorporates a "thumbnail view" (similar to Nokia's "minimap" trick).

    OSNews 2009

  • Simpia (UID#225) on October 29th, 2009 at 4: 18 am there was always the minimap on/off in ocarina … totally useful. in every way. i swear. just give it a chance.

    nintendo 64 controller | My[confined]Space 2009

  • For example, GameLoft rewrote its game Nova for the iPad's bigger screen, including adding a minimap you can enlarge with your fingers, or turning your fingers around a door lock to open it.

    iPad picks up apps from the App Store 2010

  • For example, GameLoft rewrote its game Nova for the iPad's bigger screen, including adding a minimap you can enlarge with your fingers, or turning your fingers around a door lock to open it.

    iPad picks up apps from the App Store 2010

  • No minimap world roaming … you actually had to walk aka free roam like GTA.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Fallout 3 was disappointing 2008

  • You just grab the guy that the enemies are attacking, find an empty space on the minimap that looks ripe for a bit o 'exploring, and off he goes, trailing 12 hungry space marines in his wake ... weeee!

    Post #4 More posts about MY games, darrnit! Ben Abraham 2007

  • You just grab the guy that the enemies are attacking, find an empty space on the minimap that looks ripe for a bit o 'exploring, and off he goes, trailing 12 hungry space marines in his wake ... weeee!

    Archive 2007-11-01 Ben Abraham 2007

  • You can plot courses on your minimap; you pause the game and set a destination, and the game sketches out an optimal route in glowing blue dots.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Greg Tannahill 2009

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