Episodle
Games
trivia guessing game
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How HN took it
11 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 2 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score +0.27.
Design: 6 for, 1 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Full-text search over episode descriptions makes the game playable without knowing titles
From 3 comments
I appreciate this. The full text search is fairly crucial, as while I've seen the entire series more than once I cannot for the life of me remember "the name of the episode where…
Arainach on HNThe search is not just episode names, it covers descriptions too. So you can look for “Worf” or “wormhole” or whatever, without having to know the title.
pavlov on HNI take it back, it's not too hard. I didn't realize the first round through that each game was for the same episode. I also didn't realize I could search for plot keywords. That…
rsyring on HN
Fun tribute to Patrick Stewart and TNG
From 3 comments
Nice little "game". Appreciate the effort
carruler on HNThe Inner Light still gets me every time. Lovely tribute, thanks for making this.
wecideApps on HNThanks for this! Back when TNG was on TV on the regular my wife would play a game with me, she’d flip over to TNG and pause the video, then I had to describe the episode well…
asciimov on HN
Objections
Too hard for casual fans who don't memorize episode titles
From 4 comments
Maybe I’m not enough of a Trekkie, but I feel multiple choice would be good here.
mijowi on HNIt's great just a bit toooo hard. But it's for trekkies so I'm not going to judge, I like Star Trek but I can't say that I'm anywhere as close to being a hardcore trekky, I'm…
karim79 on HNThanks for doing something to honor him. I was bummed we didn't get a black bar for him today here on HN (I know he's not STEM but honorary STEM?). The game might be too hard? I…
rsyring on HNAs a long time TNG fan, I know the episodes fairly well (noticable when I rewatch them, I notice new things every time), there's one thing I've never really paid attention to and…
sgt on HN
Multiple choice would help
From 1 comment
Maybe I’m not enough of a Trekkie, but I feel multiple choice would be good here.
mijowi on HN
Requests
Hard mode with plot search turned off
From 1 comment
Is it cheating when you can search for a plot element you know from the episode but have no idea of the title? For example: The Big Goodbye. A newspaper suggests either the…
Am4TIfIsER0ppos on HN
Fuzzy matching for accented search terms
From 1 comment
> The full text search is fairly crucial It'd also be nice if the search had fuzzy letter matching, too. American keyboards typically don't make typing "deja q" or "menage a…
cogburnd02 on HN
Questions
How were the screenshots obtained, scraping or ffmpeg?
From 1 comment
It's great just a bit toooo hard. But it's for trekkies so I'm not going to judge, I like Star Trek but I can't say that I'm anywhere as close to being a hardcore trekky, I'm…
karim79 on HN
How was the game made so quickly?
From 1 comment
As a TNG fanatic since it first aired in ‘87 I’m surprised I didn’t get more right, but I got 60%. I missed the one about the alien race who developed the technology where you…
temporallobe on HN
Alternatives named
Memory Alpha as episode description source
From 1 comment
Wow, I loved how hard this was. Some took me 3 or 4 tries before getting it. It’s been maybe 4-5 years since I’ve done a re-watch, so I found it interesting that some episodes…
mrexroad on HN