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Re: Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

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Post by sago »

Tjorvens wrote: post #2

Heyoo HN. Finished this side project of mine during the weekend. Read more about it on GitHub: https://github.com/Hemmingsson/dancemusic.wtf Let me know if you have any feedback!

Nice job. Here is my suggestion.

If the aim is to educate, it would be good to get a bit of feedback on the wrong answers. So if it said

"This is breakbeat, breakbeat is characterised by..."

I'm not big into EDM, so I thought it would be good to learn something, but I didn't feel like I came out any more informed.

Re: Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

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Post by plurinshael »

Tjorvens wrote: post #2

Heyoo HN. Finished this side project of mine during the weekend. Read more about it on GitHub: https://github.com/Hemmingsson/dancemusic.wtf Let me know if you have any feedback!

Hey thanks for this! There are a ton of sub-genres I'm not well acquainted with so this super helps. One request I would make is to be able pause the game, so that I can see the artist and track name for longer. Thanks this is great!

Re: Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

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Post by strictnein »

This was super fun. A little bit of feedback:

The text telling you what the song was that just played goes away way too fast. It'd be nice if it stayed longer, or if a list built up somewhere to reference later.

Also, I may be crazy, and random things happen, but I swear 70% of the correct answers were the #1 option.

edit: At 72,000 or so points and haven't seen #4 show up as the correct answer.

Re: Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

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Post by cecilpl2 »

Very cool and I love the idea! I agree with sago that feedback on wrong answers would be super helpful. I'd like a brief description of the genre I guessed and the one it actually was.

Also, maybe links to youtube when you post the song title so I can save it for later if I liked it!

Also also, maybe a "beginner" option that restricts it to the (say) 20 most common genres. As someone who isn't super into EDM, the fine distinctions are lost on me.

Re: Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

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Post by rhcom2 »

sago wrote: post #3
Tjorvens wrote: post #2

Heyoo HN. Finished this side project of mine during the weekend. Read more about it on GitHub: https://github.com/Hemmingsson/dancemusic.wtf Let me know if you have any feedback!

Nice job. Here is my suggestion. If the aim is to educate, it would be good to get a bit of feedback on the wrong answers. So if it said "This is breakbeat, breakbeat is characterised by..." I'm not big into EDM, so I thought it would be good to learn something, but I didn't feel like I came out any more informed.

I agree, I found myself googling most of the answers to get an idea of what the terms even meant.

Re: Show HN: Dancemusic.wtf – Quiz Game for Learning Electronic Dance Music Styles

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Post by meatsock »

strictnein wrote: post #6

If you want a "classic" internet guide to electronic genres (as in, it was built in flash and has been around forever), as well as an opinionated history lesson, Ishkur's guide is great: http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/

ishkur wrote this completely tounge in cheek, it's a snarky satire. there are entirely made up genres and artists and not a whole lot of ways to tell what's accurate and what is not.

for example, there is no such thing as speedbass.

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