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geography guessing game

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390points
86comments
#90of 2,570 in 2022
Top 4%of 2022 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

26 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 11 mixed, 12 critical, out of 65 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.

Design: 1 for, 8 againstIdea: 6 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Fun, addictive guessing game

    From 3 comments
  • Good for education and relaxing viewing

    From 2 comments
    • This is so awesome! I love it. Completely enchanting. I did 100 and got 89 right; and saw a few places I had lived =) I had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when…
      noduerme on HN
    • I enjoyed watching this narrative-free stroll in exotic locales. I think this would be a great site to relax to before bed. Please add more places :)
      bookreturn on HN

Objections

  • Too US-centric in locations

    From 3 comments
    • Very good! I like this a lot, my wife and I just spent 20 mins on it. Thoughts: There is too much USA, for people outside the USA. Multiple choice between different counties in…
      sanitycheck on HN
    • This is amazing! Really fun. I would also love to see a more even distribution geographically, it’s currently very US/Europe/South American centric.
      nojs on HN
    • This is awesome thanks! One thing I noticed is it's really US centric. Usually in my choices I got 4 USA locations and one non US place.
      polishdude20 on HN
  • Multiple-choice options too easy or confusing, state abbreviations unclear

    From 3 comments
    • Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two…
      yesenadam on HN
    • Even for those of us in the US, this can be confusing. I had to memorize those codes a long time ago, but I haven't really used most of them in decades. For example, MI. Is that…
      wccrawford on HN
    • Yeah, I had a similar score. It is way too easy, I'd say. I often had video segments that gave the answer away: a skyline with skyscrapers, and a list with one mega city and…
      cyxxon on HN
  • Unclear it is a guessing game

    From 3 comments
    • Cool, but... Where am I? I see a video, and some buttons for other locations. But it doesn't show what I am looking at in the current video. Is it a puzzle? You have to figure…
      intrasight on HN
    • cool site, confusing UX.
      meesterdude on HN
    • It took me a while to pick up on that. I first thought I was choosing where to go next. I then wasted a bunch of time on it. Fun.
      jdhzzz on HN
  • Bugs in Firefox

    From 3 comments
    • I have tried it three times and I find this way of teleporting very pleasant. I am particularly bad in geography, but it seemed to me that the places of some videos were…
      betterburnout on HN
    • When I click on a city it shows videos from a different city. On firefox
      perfopt on HN
    • skip button isnt working for me in firefox 99.0
      nickthegreek on HN

Requests

  • Add more locations and a better geographic spread

    From 2 comments
    • This is amazing! Really fun. I would also love to see a more even distribution geographically, it’s currently very US/Europe/South American centric.
      nojs on HN
    • This is awesome thanks! One thing I noticed is it's really US centric. Usually in my choices I got 4 USA locations and one non US place.
      polishdude20 on HN
  • Shareable scores or daily Wordle-style challenge

    From 2 comments
    • This is so awesome! I love it. Completely enchanting. I did 100 and got 89 right; and saw a few places I had lived =) I had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when…
      noduerme on HN
    • Great game! That was really fun! I would love to have the ability to copy-paste the results of how wrong or right I was after a set amount of games (like wordle)
      lom on HN
  • Multiplayer or team mode

    From 3 comments
    • This is amazing. I think it'll make a good party game also, especially if the attendees are well-traveled or international. edit: Would be amazing if you added a competitive mode…
      pcthrowaway on HN
    • This is perfect for a distributed team game via Zoom - if you can find a way to facilitate group guessing via mobile phone while the videos are shown on a video conferencing…
      globalise83 on HN
    • Well done... I can see a multi-user competition mode too (e.g. Kahoot!) Good ice-breaker too.
      billylo on HN
  • Harder difficulty by picking closer wrong answers

    From 3 comments
    • Very good! I like this a lot, my wife and I just spent 20 mins on it. Thoughts: There is too much USA, for people outside the USA. Multiple choice between different counties in…
      sanitycheck on HN
    • Pretty easy. I'd would try adding a hard mode where the 3 wrong cities are geographically close to the correct city. So guessing "Asia" isn't enough to guess correctly.
      nathancahill on HN
    • This is one of my favorite things I’ve seen on the internet in a while. Just so awesome. One thing I think that might be improved would be to prevent some situations where for…
      ambrose2 on HN

Questions

  • Where do the videos come from?

    From 2 comments
    • nice, where did you get the videos from?
      nittanymount on HN
    • Love this kind of walking around videos (I watch them in an old VR headset when I cannot fall asleep). I see it uses videos from YouTube, are they collected in a playlist…
      hobo_mark on HN

Alternatives named

  • GeoGuessr

    From 1 comment
    • Reminds me a lot of GeoGuessr [0], particularly the videos that top competitors make, such as Tom Davies who goes by the moniker GeoWizard [1]. [0] https://www.geoguessr.com [1]…
      cercatrova on HN
  • City Guesser (virtualvacation.us)

    From 2 comments
    • Also City Guesser [0], which has similar POV video gameplay. [0] https://virtualvacation.us/guess
      brennopost on HN
    • Neat. The presence of flags makes it almost too easy :-) It seems pretty similar to https://virtualvacation.us/guess (which I just run across earlier today), except you're asked…
      dividuum on HN
  • Drive and Listen

    From 1 comment
    • Very neat, it reminded me of the below link, which shows videos of driving through cities, while playing you a matching radio station from the area.…
      animal531 on HN

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