[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made a game for learning the country flag...
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Show HN: I made a game for learning the country flags of the world
I have always loved geography, and due to my childhood interest in
football, I learned a lot of country flags. A lot, but not all of
them! So, I decided to make a free game for anyone who enjoys
flags and wants to improve their knowledge. You can compete against
others because each game is timed. Have fun!
Author : kyrylo
Score : 26 points
Date : 2024-07-05 08:55 UTC (14 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (flagmatch.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (flagmatch.com)
| charlestehio wrote:
| vexillologists would definitely love this
| kyrylo wrote:
| Yeah, and hopefully geography lovers like me as well
| stuartjohnson12 wrote:
| Simple, but with excellent execution. Greatly enjoyed practicing
| with this, and bookmarked so I can return
| kyrylo wrote:
| Thank you
| KomoD wrote:
| I got romania and chad alongside each other, that certainly made
| it harder lol.
| kyrylo wrote:
| Yeah, that's a hilarious situation :)
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| Chad and Romania don't want to change their flags!
| klubbhead wrote:
| Thanks, great job! I very much liked it, and so did my daughter!
| kyrylo wrote:
| You're welcome! I am especially pleased to know that your
| daughter liked it :)
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| My 2-year-old daughter can't appreciate it yet.
| jack_the_dev wrote:
| For some reason the game is highlighting the correct answers for
| me before I click them.
| kyrylo wrote:
| It's a hint. It is shown every 4 seconds if you're not clicking
| on anything.
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| Do you think it would be better if hints were a separate
| button?
| Euph0r14 wrote:
| Yes please! It's a great game, but it's giving unwanted
| spoilers.
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| Give a Hint button where you "pay" some time to use it.
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| Thanks for making it!
| kyrylo wrote:
| Perfect, that was my thought as well! Will do
| kyrylo wrote:
| Done! Now you need to press the "Show hint" button.
| Euph0r14 wrote:
| Thank you very much!! Will play some more now :))
| go_elmo wrote:
| Im thinking about a similar thing for plant-species. Knowing them
| makes being outside a whole different experience!
| kyrylo wrote:
| Is there a large community of plant enthusiasts?
| nosrepa wrote:
| Kinda related, but I use the Seek app extensively to identify
| plants and it seems to work really well!
| jddil wrote:
| Thanks, my daughter loves it. She wanted me to tell you she's
| only 10 and got 2nd on the leaderboard.
| kyrylo wrote:
| Aww, that's really sweet
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| My daughter is 2 years old, and she can't enjoy it yet.
|
| And wow, good job!
| dadoum wrote:
| The way flag appears can be exploited to get very fast.
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| We can memorize the last two matches position and alternate from
| there, as flags may not be there when names are popping but after
| at most one elimination the flag must have appeared (and if you
| enjoy try-harding you can refresh the website until you get the
| two first flags and names aligned, so almost no mouse move nor
| memory are needed)
| kyrylo wrote:
| Yeah, I see what you mean. I have to think about how to prevent
| it.
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| It's late here, and I have no quick, good ideas.
| uhartelightning wrote:
| Very fun and responsive but I ended up in a chain of "off-by-one"
| where there was a country/flag whose partner was NOT visible at
| the moment but was the next to pop up.
| kyrylo wrote:
| Yeah, the "off-by-one" rule is there so that you cannot match
| the same slot over and over.
| thenipper wrote:
| This is great. My 11 year old thanks you!
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