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Pocket Atlas

Seven places to stand in, from a Tokyo backstreet in the rain to Griffith Observatory after sunset.

By evan. Verified by Pocket Nexus.

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Rainy Night Konbini: a 24-hour shop on a Tokyo backstreet, its light on the wet road, Tokyo Tower at the end of the street.

These clips and pictures were recorded from the browser version. Each device draws the game with its own renderer, so the picture on it differs.

Pocket Atlas is a globe with a pin on each place it holds. Pick a pin and you stand there. The camera tours the place by itself, and the stick takes over when you want to walk and look around.

There are seven places: a 24-hour convenience store on a Tokyo backstreet in the rain, the stone stairs below Suga Shrine in Yotsuya, Radio Kaikan in Akihabara at blue hour, the Enoden crossing at Kamakura-Kōkōmae with Sagami Bay behind it, Sangubashi No. 3 crossing in Yoyogi under cherry blossom, Lombard Street in San Francisco, and Griffith Observatory above Los Angeles twenty minutes after sunset. Each keeps its own hour and weather. A train passes Sangubashi about once a minute and Kamakura every two.

It runs on PS Vita, PSP, Nintendo 3DS, iPod touch and Android, with a renderer written for each device's GPU, and every device has all seven places.

The browser version draws the PS Vita build's places inside the shell of any of four handhelds. The places need a desktop browser with WebGPU.