6700 / 10000.
I guess because I didn't zoom on the map and got the time off by 34 years of the actual event.
The scoring could be improved.
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Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#142To offer a non-AI alternative but a similar game concept, I highly recommend TimeGuesser: https://timeguessr.com/ . You are shown historical photos (from the past 100 years, even up to the past year) and need to guess the location on a map and the year of the image. Extremely fun and varied gameplay because of the varied events the photos capture (some mundane while others more recognizable).
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#143Cool idea but the AI images are kind of lame. For anyone who wants something like this I recommend NYT's Flashback quiz: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/upshot/flashb...
I think the AI images are what makes this interesting. First good use of AI video I've seen.
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#144Interesting concept, but the use of AI art is personally extremely off-putting. Maybe it works for people who like having everything filtered through a modern cinematic cgi filter. In this case, sure, it is a neat tool for seeing how a hollywood studio might have imagined events of the past to look like. At least you admit upfront here that they are "fantastical imaginations" of historical events, but maybe you shoul…
I don't think this would be interesting without the AI art so big disagree. First good use of AI video I've seen.
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#145Brilliant idea but e.g. I got the conversion of the kingdom of Aksum to Christianity and none of the images resemble reality.
I think this might work better if you fed the LLM some real image and asked it to expand it than by using prompts.
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#146Brilliant idea but e.g. I got the conversion of the kingdom of Aksum to Christianity and none of the images resemble reality. I think this might work better if you fed the LLM some real image and asked it to expand it than by using prompts.
How would you be able to get real images of the past?
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#147Very interesting ways to interact with AI videos
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#148Interesting that the AI makes many of the outdoor structures look ancient rather than how they'd look in the time period. People walking over crumbling ancient roads whole fallen ruins loom over them isn't exactly accurate.
Maintenance is expensive in all time periods.
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#149This is awesome. I had the same feeling I had when I first played GeoGuessr. It's one of the first times I've seen what is obviously AI-generated video used in a super compelling way. I want to keep playing. A few super nitpicky comments: - I dropped my pin for "Seward's Folly" on Alaska. The videos were clear enough that I knew that's what it was, which made me excited. But then it said it happened in Washington, DC…
The Seward's Folly had an additional issue besides the fact that some of the locations were in DC and others were in Alaska:
The video of the signing in the White House shows Rutherford B. Hayes, not Andrew Johnson. Andrew Johnson was president in 1867, not Rutherford B. Hayes.
Your location estimate was off because you matched the 3-out-of-4 of videos showing Alaska / Russian Army / Tligits.
My time estimate was off because I matched the only video from the White House ...which was showing Rutherford B. Hayes in office.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Still more accurate most of the time than a lot of historical video games at least. I got a trippy one that was supposed to be about Da Vinci painting the Last Supper, but the people were moving, so I thought it was supposed to be the actual supper: https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/56571c14-8f13-48ba-b60f-d82...
>Still more accurate most of the time than a lot of historical video games at least. This game is much closer to Trivial Pursuit than it is Assassin's Creed. The importance of accuracy depends on the type of game and when the point of the game is specifically testing the player's knowledge, a lack of accuracy is game-breaking.
And where the creators are on the spectrum between historical accuracy vs politics vs target audience; Asscreed is one that tries to balance it, sometimes it works, their most recent example has had major criticisms. Kingdom Come focuses on historical accuracy but since they found no records of e.g. Black people in medieval Bohemia they didn't include them in the first game, which did trigger some criticism - the game director being outspoken on the issue probably didn't help.