I enjoyed it :) I see a lot of complaints about the ai generation. My 2c would be the photorealistic style is throwing people off a bit. Painting/artistic renderings might do it better justice
Glad you liked it! And fair point
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#172I enjoyed it :) I see a lot of complaints about the ai generation. My 2c would be the photorealistic style is throwing people off a bit. Painting/artistic renderings might do it better justice
I think it's a tough call, using a specific artistic style rendering might influence your guess or might be harder to generate.
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#173My first reaction is that the scoring is too harsh. I got within 50 years and 100 km and the resulting score is 7,406 / 10,000.
Yeah the scoring can be pretty harsh. You should be able to see your percentile overall and for each round on the results page.
I really think that the scoring is fine, I like to have a big progression margin but I think it would be nice to know how the score is computed.
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#174I was excited by the title until I saw it was all AI :( It would’ve been cool to collect actual images from history. I’m sure there are 1000s of public domain images that could be used.
I know, right?! All those amazing photos from ancient Egypt are some of my favourites. Especially selfies with Amun-Ra and Amunet...
The AI photos aren’t from that era either… they don’t show accurate depictions of life from that time.
They literally can’t. There’s no photographs…
What’s the point? You’re just guessing at the prompt used to generate the photo.
That might be more interesting, actually. AI photo game where you need to guess the prompt.
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#175Its a nice idea, and it poses interesting biases in the models generating the videos.
I for the chinese question, I think it was way off. It showed the great wall of china, which is the wrong place for the answer.
The rise of the mugals was also interesting, I got it right but only because I assumed it was confusing Ottoman architecture with mugal.
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#176I enjoyed it :) I see a lot of complaints about the ai generation. My 2c would be the photorealistic style is throwing people off a bit. Painting/artistic renderings might do it better justice
Glad you liked it! And fair point
Keep the photorealistic style, it makes it feel more "real" in a sense. We can see artistic pieces in a museum or online just fine.
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#177Personnaly I didn't felt as if I was trying to recognize a place and period in history, but trying to guess what prompts were used to generate the pictures. Or at least for some of the pictures where I wasn't as sure of the event (like seeing the rose on a picture for the war of the roses). Also I didn't listen to many of the sounds, but I got English voices for something happening in France (the Fauvisme guess). But…
Yeah, it's probably a good strategy to ignore the (unfortunately mostly incorrect) details and rather try to get a general feeling of what the videos are trying to tell you. For example the "shipyard" page - I was first completely puzzled by the very American-looking workers, but then I thought about what important historic event happened in a shipyard, and together with the red-and-white flags (although the most prominent one seems to be Austrian, which is misleading) I arrived at the correct answer...
However, I also have a "complaint": the "balloon" page (trying to avoid spoiling it) has three videos in a big city and one in the countryside, yet the correct location is the countryside location, not the city (although the city is even mentioned by name in one of the prompts!). So a little more care here is probably warranted...
Aaaand the "pope" page has (according to the prompts) three scenes set at the Vatican, but the location seems to be somewhere else in Rome :)
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#178Love the game but I second improving the scoring mechanics.
I was 40 years off and less than 5km from the place and "only" got 7829. Assuming 99% accuracy for location, and based on some back-of-the-napkin math, that means you have to be within 70.7 years of the actual event to register any points for guessing the correct time. I think If you're within 100 years of the event you should get points. I think ideally it should be a curve, but if you can't program a curve then perhaps create brackets, like -10 points for each year within 10 years, -25 points for each year between 10 and 25 years, and -50 points for each year past that. Using this method you can be +/- 115 years of an event before getting 0 points for the time portion, and the closer you are, the closer to 5000 points you achieve.
Also, the one event was credited as being in Rome, although the picture shows, and the description says, St. Peter's Basilica, which is in Vatican City.
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#179Love the game but I second improving the scoring mechanics. I was 40 years off and less than 5km from the place and "only" got 7829. Assuming 99% accuracy for location, and based on some back-of-the-napkin math, that means you have to be within 70.7 years of the actual event to register any points for guessing the correct time. I think If you're within 100 years of the event you should get points. I think ideally it…
Glad you liked it, thanks for playing!
Fair point on the scoring, seems like a lot of people feel that way. Right now, half your points come from distance in km, and half come from distance in years. So you probably got 5000 points for location, and lost points on the year. But it's probably a bit too harsh right now.
And thanks for pointing out the Vatican City nit.
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#180Love the concept. Got annoyed with the scoring. I was off by about 200 years and got the country right and only got 2,995 out of 10,000. Felt sad i got such a low score then looked at the answer and felt proud I thought I was really close and then annoyed at how strict the scoring seemed. But overall, I love the concept and will probably continue to play and ignore the scoring.
The scoring definitely needs some improvement. Thanks for playing!