Explordle
Learning and science
geography guessing game
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
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
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, addictive guessing game
From 3 comments
FFS this is so addictive.
heystefan on HNThis is really cool! I got carried away playing, was super fun. Nice one OP!
matthewhartmans on HNI wasted 20 minutes on it. Cool!
Mike-br on HN
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 HNI 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 HNThis 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 HNThis 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 HNEven 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 HNYeah, 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 HNcool site, confusing UX.
meesterdude on HNIt 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 HNWhen I click on a city it shows videos from a different city. On firefox
perfopt on HNskip 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 HNThis 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 HNGreat 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 HNThis 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 HNWell 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 HNPretty 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 HNThis 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 HNLove 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 HNNeat. 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