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Show HN: Name That Nation
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#62Nice game :)
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#63Great work! Only feedback would be to make the drop-down search aware of the abbreviations for various countries. For example, St. Lucia rather than Saint Lucia, DPRK for North Korea, or even CAR rather than Central African Republic.
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#64Nice, enjoyed seeing how I don't know the political map as good as I thought. If I click "Check" without typing anything and then click "Correct" my score goes up.
The hard ones for me were countries in mainland Africa, island nations in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and small adjacent countries that you associate in a group – say Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, or Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
For the 'stans, I remember TUTK (west to east), and that Turkmenistan is closest to Turkey.
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#65I liked it. Maybe you could add some facts about each country as a tip or after the answer was checked.
And the tiny countries such as the Vatican or the Pacific Island states could be zoomed in.
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#66This is already written elsewhere, but this game screams to work efficiently with the keyboard, so one can just type country names and hit 'return'.
I can already mostly navigate it with TAB + shift-TAB, but as the game loop is simply 'type name, get feedback', it seems weird the keyboard flow has not been polished in its otherwise quite polished design.
I am at two minds about the drop-down matches covering the beautiful prompt map. I realise I should be able to carry on typing even though I then can no longer look at the country shape, but for the design purity of it, I would prefer the drop-down to not cover the prompt. Maybe by allocating less space to the candidates, at max showing 2-3 options, or showing them _beneath_ the map.
Still, very beautiful compared to a version I made 20 years ago for my private use (CIA world database map says hello!).
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are easy - they go in alphabetical order from north to south.
Also, Estonia is closest to Finland, which makes sense since the languages are close.
and it makes sense that lithuania is the bottom one (ie, closest to poland), since there used to be a polish lithuanian commonwealth
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#68Nice project Gameplay wise, I find the feedback loop to be lacking tho. Right now, there's no much feedback other than "You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...". This makes it less of an educational game and more like a test. For me, I'm always close, so revealing neighbor countries on the map along with the answer (especially for small countries) can add a "spaced repetition" element to the game, it…
This. There used to be a fun geography game on the Commodore 64 where you had to fly a helicopter over countries/capitals. It was fun because when you had no idea where a country was, you just kept flying in circles. They got the gameplay right to some degree.
Screenshots: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/maps-usa-n4v
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#69The positions of the Pacific islands and the smallest nations of the Caribbean are difficult to remember. For Central America it's hard to remember the north to south sequence and the same for the equatorial region of the coast of western Africa. Everything else is pretty easy.
Considering how many countries are there in those regions I expect that I should achieve at least 50% but not close to 75%. That's surprisingly bad for an European that thinks to know geography.
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#70Nice project Gameplay wise, I find the feedback loop to be lacking tho. Right now, there's no much feedback other than "You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...". This makes it less of an educational game and more like a test. For me, I'm always close, so revealing neighbor countries on the map along with the answer (especially for small countries) can add a "spaced repetition" element to the game, it…
Or atleast uncover the names of countries already answered, feels like slowly colouring in the map of the world.