Love it, played for like 30 minutes. There used to be a great Facebook game called GeoChallenge similar to this, for some reason got terminated and I never played another Facebook game after.
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#62The worldmap seems to not include new zealand, because it takes the browser's zoom level (which i have set to high), and scales it badly to clip out the sides.
You can drag it. It should include it by default though, I had the same issue.
you can't drag it, because as soon as you clicked, it chose the location of the answer, and so you get it wrong!
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#64Very nice game!
I've written a similar game a while back (single player, though): http://david-peter.de/quizzity/
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#65As somebody that consistently does good in these geography games (even competing with other HNrs), I wonder if is there a way to capitalize/use this skill?
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#66This is a lot of fun but I'd also recommend allowing zoom for greater precision then resetting after each question. Pretty simple JS commands for Leaflet to handle and would make a HUGE difference - not sure how folks are getting so precise on such a small map :)
It would be nice indeed but the fact that you cannot zoom limits the number of requests to the map tiles provider.
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#67This is really great. A few thoughts -Did you have any trouble with the sockets library? -I saw you explicitly mentioned "plane_distance", so are you planning on adding Haversine distance or something else? -Maybe make the map take up the entire screen? Status and first few on the leaderboard could go in the ocean.
The socket library (Flask SocketIO) works great and has a good documentation.
I used plane distance because it's faster to compute and the accuracy is good enough for this use case.
Regarding the UX I think it's a good idea to make the map take the entire screen.
Thanks for the feedback
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#68Very nice game! I've written a similar game a while back (single player, though): http://david-peter.de/quizzity/
Great UI!
Thanks for the feedback
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#69Addictive and fun! Thank you! The fact that the crowd playing did not bring it down load-wise is just as impressive. Back-end deployment story?
I was a bit worried when I saw so many people playing simultaneously because the game is hosted on a 2€ VPS at OVH but it worked great!
Re: Show HN: A Multiplayer Geography Game Using WebSockets
#70This is a lot of fun but I'd also recommend allowing zoom for greater precision then resetting after each question. Pretty simple JS commands for Leaflet to handle and would make a HUGE difference - not sure how folks are getting so precise on such a small map :)
If I know precisely the location of a city (like Kyiv, Istanbul in my case) I was able to pin it with 20 to 45km precision. I think it's close enough on a world scale.