[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the worl...
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Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-
person POV
Author : eddieweng
Score : 220 points
Date : 2022-04-09 18:58 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.explordle.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.explordle.com)
| ambrose2 wrote:
| 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 example I was given
| as choices something like China, Vietnam, County A in West
| Virginia, County B in West Virginia. It clearly was in West
| Virginia (too easy), but which county was too difficult.
| eddieweng wrote:
| Glad you like it! I'll try to tune the difficulty of the game.
| tetraodonpuffer wrote:
| I often watch POV walking/biking videos when working out indoors
| (rambalac for Japan, prowalk tours for Italy/Europe, watched
| walker for London, ...) and thanks to your site I've found a
| couple more channels I was not aware of: could you maybe have a
| page where you list all the channels you are using (with maybe
| the amount of videos from each)?
|
| From a gaming standpoint maybe I would show the source button
| only after the user has made a guess, as well as having an auto
| play button that can be disabled in case the user just wants to
| play random POV videos as screensaver or keep watching for a
| while after guessing.
| nittanymount wrote:
| nice, where did you get the videos from?
| eddieweng wrote:
| The videos are all hosted on youtube.
| blackmoon42 wrote:
| Which explains how I can cheat sometimes... When I go to the
| lockscreen on my phone I can see the title of the video.
| intrasight wrote:
| 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 that out? If
| so, please say that somewhere.
| beeboop wrote:
| Yes, the idea is to guess where you are. It keeps track how
| many you get right.
| 91dylwyn wrote:
| This is pretty fascinating!!
| 91dylwyn wrote:
| Maybe you could you make it so people can add a place. I guess
| upload to youtube, geo-tag it. It would be fun to get to add
| your place to the game.
|
| I would like to try with a VR headset
| Leftium wrote:
| On the [home page], there is a link to a [submission form].
|
| [home page]: https://www.explordle.com/
|
| [submission form]:
| https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfD6VZ0xPYcqk-
| oEAD6...
| betterburnout wrote:
| 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 sometimes particularly
| easy to identify. It's good when you feel lost. And the three
| times around the twenty videos I had a bug (with Firefox). And
| lost all my progress.
| eddieweng wrote:
| Will look into the bug. Thank you for the feedback!
| abalaji wrote:
| This is really neat. I think if you had the geoguesser style of
| map or head-to-head competitions, it could really take off in the
| twitch streaming world.
| matthewhartmans wrote:
| This is really cool!
|
| I got carried away playing, was super fun. Nice one OP!
| heystefan wrote:
| FFS this is so addictive.
| meesterdude wrote:
| cool site, confusing UX.
| yesenadam wrote:
| At first I thought it was offering me a choice between 4 random
| places to go next. That would also be awesome.
| eddieweng wrote:
| Thank you for the feedback, will fix.
| nittanymount wrote:
| thought that way too :-)
| yesenadam wrote:
| 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 two-
| letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make
| it more international.
| wccrawford wrote:
| 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
| Michigan, Missouri, or Mississippi? (It 's Michigan.) MS?
| Mississippi. MO is Missouri, which isn't intuitive unless you
| already know the other 2 and realize there isn't a lot of other
| letters they could use.
|
| So yeah, full names is better. :)
| ortusdux wrote:
| Have you seen the stand-up Gary Gulman's routine about the
| group that choose the abbreviations? It's a masterclass in
| comedic storytelling.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLECCmKnrys
| eddieweng wrote:
| Got it, will fix this. Thanks for your feedback!
| em-bee wrote:
| i love the idea. unfortunately probably due to my slow connection
| i get an extremely low resolution on the video making it very
| difficult to recognize any details because everything looks
| blurry. i'd rather have less or slower video but at a higher
| resolution. 360p at least. 480p would be better.
|
| also, please check the browser language. due to my location i get
| city names in a language i can't read.
| noduerme wrote:
| 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 I was
| a kid. It think this would be a great educational tool.
|
| Some thoughts (in no particular order)...
|
| * I had one repeat video (which I had gotten wrong the first
| time), and two videos of the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin).
|
| * It's interesting how many of them have flags in the shot - were
| the shots selected this way on purpose? It made me think how
| often there are flags everywhere that we barely notice. That plus
| the writing system, plus which side of the road people are
| driving on, makes some of them fairly easy. I imagine you could
| make a more difficult level if you wanted to, just by increasing
| the number of multiple choice answers or making more of them be
| from the same country or region.
|
| * I wish there was a way to share your score with friends.
|
| Great project!
| nopenopenopeno wrote:
| I thought 60/100 was good but I have never left the USA.
| eddieweng wrote:
| * The videos will not show up again only if you guess it right
|
| * Yes the difficulty of the game is what I'm working on next
|
| * Sharing score with friends: I'm thinking of a daily question
| set and a sharable format like wordle :P
|
| Glad you like it and thank you for your feedback!
| rapjr9 wrote:
| If you don't guess will the videos show up again and again?
| I'm not interested in the guessing game aspect, I just want
| to watch the videos.
| _puk wrote:
| This is awesome. Wasted far too much time on it already!
|
| Tried clicking source and got an error:
|
| https://www.explordle.comhttps//www.youtube.com/watch?v=qArF...
| not found
| eddieweng wrote:
| Got it, will fix. Thank you for the feedback!
| billylo wrote:
| Well done... I can see a multi-user competition mode too (e.g.
| Kahoot!)
|
| Good ice-breaker too.
| gmarcus wrote:
| Addictive! Would make for a great TV app (iOS/Android developer
| here). Multi-player each with their own controller to collect
| answers and reveal the winners.
| ezekg wrote:
| I watched somebody walk around in the rain at night for 10 mins
| before realizing this is Wordle-but-with-videos. Very peaceful.
| Mike-br wrote:
| I wasted 20 minutes on it. Cool!
| polishdude20 wrote:
| 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.
| eddieweng wrote:
| More places will be added, thank you for the feedback!
| nickthegreek wrote:
| skip button isnt working for me in firefox 99.0
| beeboop wrote:
| Working for me in 99.0 on macos
| nojs wrote:
| 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.
| eddieweng wrote:
| More places will be added, thank you for the feedback!
| pcthrowaway wrote:
| 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 also,
| where two or more parties would get the same series of videos
| (randomly generated from a unique URL or something). And see who
| can get the most points out of 100 or so. Even better of the
| options are labeled A-D and randomized so groups in the same room
| can discuss which one they want to pick without leaking
| information
| dividuum wrote:
| 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 to
| click on a map to solve instead of using multiple choice.
| cercatrova wrote:
| 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] https://www.youtube.com/c/GeoWizard
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