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Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by samplank2 »

noduerme wrote: post #154

This is really cool work..It made me think about the original Bill & Ted movie and how you could almost generate an open ended (very pseudo-historical) time travel game now.

Thanks! Yeah I'm hoping we can have that sort of thing soon. So many obscure moments in history I would want to play as a video game.

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by AlessandroF6587 »

samplank2 wrote: post #179
bucketsofthundr wrote: post #178

Love 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.

What about going logarithmic with time? The more it's in the past the more errors are forgiven. Explained in another way use the relative time difference (diff/(now-value)) to compute the score and not the absolute time difference

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by dkarl »

tdb7893 wrote: post #136
lelandfe wrote: post #84

> The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail Are they ever? > They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest academic research on how they looked Like the one of the age of castles man loading an American civil war cannon by holding another cannon up to it: https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/37e02fea-bbb2-4b88-ae…

The inaccuracy was disappointing to me. If the point is historical trivia it's hard when the historical trivia isn't right. I have done some fencing and I noticed it especially for weapons and armor (though that might be just because that's what I know at least a tiny bit about). Overall it's a fun idea though. I was able to consistently get pretty close in time and location so even with the anachronisms there was en…

It's a really fun idea and a terrible example of applying AI to a problem. An average person with an internet connection is going to do a terrible job of getting historical details right, and the only thing AI is doing better here is generating artistic depictions of the mistakes faster than a human could.

This is an example of something that looks like an educational game but has the opposite effect. I had fun doing my round, but I won't do it again, because I think I will learn more wrong things from it than right things.

Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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Post by yomismoaqui »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #150
slg wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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 gam…

They did "fix it" on Kingdom Come 2 and personally think they did a good job about how the reaction would be when meeting a dude with dark skin on that specific time and place.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_OksWkD0VaY

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