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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
#72This is cool, but I'm not sure some of the hints are not more red herrings than anything else. Because AI sort of blends things, the prompt needs to be spot on or, for example, India starts looking like any part of the middle east. Traditional China looks like Japan, etc. Also some of the temporal clues were very good, some were 'wtf'. I also laughed at some of the hallucination I witnessed. Like a group of people st…
Thanks for the feedback and the ideas! Is your idea about showing the ages just to make it a bit easier if you don't know exactly when different ages started and ended?
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#73Interesting 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.
Definitely some issues to be improved in the game, but I think these sorts of errors can be driven down.
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#74I really liked it but felt some of the image hints were a bit ambiguous at times which annoyed me.
I had one for the US purchase of Alaska which I got from the images of Americans building log cabins in an icy landscape and another image showing an American signing a document. I assumed it would be either Washington or Alaska (Anchorage I guess), but wasn't sure which because it depends on if you weight the signing of the agreement over the building of US settlements. It could have been either given the images were of different locations.
Similarly I had picture of British dude creating telescopes and realised it was very likely Herschel. But I also knew Herschels early work was done in Bath, while his most famous telescope was built later in Slough. Again, it wasn't entirely clear which location it would have been referring to.
Maybe I'm just being stupid though. I think you could have argued that right answers in both cases were more likely to be Washington and Bath.
That said, I really really liked it and think you have something here. Personally I'd play this over Geoguessr any day and I'll show my GF it tomorrow because I think she'll also like the history aspect of it.
Also, might worth lowering the distance penalty if someone guesses the right country, but the wrong point? Events in large countries are more risky just because of their size. Eg, if an event happened in France but you click Germany you'll often get less of a distance penalty than correctly guessing an event happened in the US but clicking the wrong part of the US.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that it's not possible to have them do 13th century architectural style perfectly right now. But I believe it will be soon. The image/video models are improving, but so are the reasoning models, and they can check for and fix anachronisms.
Why not using img2vid starting from an historically accurate picture or painting?
This does use img2vid but with AI generated images. Using real pictures or paintings could definitely be fun too.
Re: 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
#77I 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.
https://timeguessr.com/ is basically that
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#78I found the centrality of AI generated video to be quite distasteful. I had a visceral negative reaction to it, which probably speaks to how much AI slop is polluting my life in other places. I would have much preferred a game based on actual historical photographs.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#79I really liked it but felt some of the image hints were a bit ambiguous at times which annoyed me. I had one for the US purchase of Alaska which I got from the images of Americans building log cabins in an icy landscape and another image showing an American signing a document. I assumed it would be either Washington or Alaska (Anchorage I guess), but wasn't sure which because it depends on if you weight the signing o…
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for the kind words! Yeah the situations you pointed out like Washington/Alaska where it's not being consistent in the depiction of a location aren't great and will be improved. I'm kind of torn about what to do on the distance scoring. On the one hand, I see your point that knowing the country should count for something, but it currently doesn't count for much if the country is big and you get the wrong side of the country. On the other hand, doing that would make the scoring system more complicated, and it's already not particularly easy to understand.
Re: Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
#80congrats on the launch! had a lot of fun playing it, keep it up!!