Pocket Tokyo
A flight over Shiba, around Tokyo Tower.
By evan. Verified by Pocket Nexus.
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 Tokyo is a flight over Shiba, the part of Minato around Tokyo Tower: three kilometres across, from Roppongi and Azabudai to Hamamatsucho and the bay. The city is the real one. Its 14,753 buildings come from Project PLATEAU, the open 3D city model of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, with roads and railways © OpenStreetMap contributors and heights from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan.
You fly with the stick, or let the tour carry you round the tower. The clock runs while you fly: the sun crosses the sky, the shadows turn with it, and the windows and the street lamps come on at dusk. You can turn the clock to any hour by hand.
It runs on PS Vita, PSP, Nintendo 3DS, iPod touch and Android. Each device has its own renderer and its own pack of the city, compiled for what its GPU draws: 60 frames a second on a PS Vita, an iPod touch and an Android phone, 30 on a PSP and a 3DS.
The browser version draws the iPod touch build's city inside the shell of any of four handhelds.