Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#1

Post by stefuuuun » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:00 PM UTC

Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer
wiki-race.stefannemeth.com

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#2

Post by stefuuuun » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:00 PM UTC

Created using Plasmic.app, Next.js, Pusher, Upstash and Vercel :)

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#3

Post by sattoshi » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 9:43 PM UTC

Suggestion: If the start and destination inputs are left empty, select a random article for both.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#4

Post by ullarah » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 11:57 PM UTC

This is great! Is the source available?

A couple of suggestions:

  * Option to disable geographic location links

  * Option to disable general articles

  * Language options (include simple english)

  * Maybe an option to use the mobile version? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/)

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#5

Post by stefuuuun » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 12:01 AM UTC

sattoshi wrote: post #3

Suggestion: If the start and destination inputs are left empty, select a random article for both.

Thanks for the suggestion. Implemented random articles (as well as random names) :)

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#6

Post by stefuuuun » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 12:04 AM UTC

ullarah wrote: post #4

This is great! Is the source available? A couple of suggestions: * Option to disable geographic location links * Option to disable general articles * Language options (include simple english) * Maybe an option to use the mobile version? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/)

Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely implement some of them. Regarding the mobile version: I thought it would already use the mobile version as it uses the minerva skin of Wikipedia.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#7

Post by stefuuuun » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 12:08 AM UTC

ullarah wrote: post #4

This is great! Is the source available? A couple of suggestions: * Option to disable geographic location links * Option to disable general articles * Language options (include simple english) * Maybe an option to use the mobile version? (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/)

Just added Simple English as a language.

Re: Show HN: Multiplayer Wikipedia Racer

#8

Post by pretzelgig » Thu, Jan 06, 2022, 6:48 AM UTC

This is really nice, but instead of a timer at the end showing the successful path it should be the leader who decide when to start new, because player maybe want to discuss the results a bit.