help?

[fox]

My Google-fu is failing me.

Some years ago, someone on my flist posted a link to a geography game site that turned out, for a geek like me, to be absurd amounts of fun. There were many different kinds of games on the site, but the one I remember specifically and can't find again google-wise had a blank map of a continent (or the world, I believe) and would give you country-shaped blobs one at a time which you had to drag and drop in the right location. When you've got natural features like rivers and coastlines as your borders, that's relatively easy, but without them, yikes, you know what I'm saying? (There was also a version of this with US states.)

Here's what I remember: I could have sworn the link came from a DC-type person when I was in my first year at Oxford, because I feel like I remember spending hours clicking and dragging while I was sitting at the desk in the room I lived in that year. In fact I was sure it was either sowilo or thyesc, but I don't find any such post in their respective archives from the whole time I was living in that room. Ditto datlowen (who was SFS and thus a good candidate), esti626 (ditto), mearagrrl (clearly I am on a Hoya Saxa kick now), kronemab, jgesteve, indydc, girlfromsouth, glurve, fafou, or (in desperation, because I really didn't think it was her) cmshaw. I do know other people in the DC area, but in those cases I didn't know them then or I no longer have access to their posts from fall of 2004, or both. I AM STUMPED. Most of the folks named above hardly (or never) use LJ anymore, but if any of them sees this and goes "oh, I know the link she means!", or if any of you can help me find it, omfg, I will be really disproportionately happy. :-)

Comments

[reginagiraffe]

I don't know if this is the one, but here is a States version.

Jimpages didn't appear to have a Countries version. :/

[ellen_fremedon]

I remember playing a game like this much more recently-- you could select several different levels, for various parts of the world, and the drag-and-drop was just one option.

[ellen_fremedon]

Was it these? They don't have a drag-and-drop game for the whole world, but they have regional ones.

[fox]

I think that was it! Yay!

[axiom_of_stripe]

it definitely wasn't me posting it. i don't particularly recall having seen it go by, if that helps narrow down your potential posting candidates, although it might just be that i didn't click on it. it sounds like fun, but the sort of thing that i might have ignored if it came up while i was reading my flist at work....

(if you do find it, please post the link again!)