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Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by astura »

admax88qqq wrote: post #59
astura wrote: post #58

Depends on what you're looking for but I think this would be more fun if it excluded very tiny streets, like minimum length. I got what is essentially a driveway for two houses that's not paved or labeled, nobody would know it's name (or that it was a named street even) unless you lived on it or next door to it. (I live next door to it). Might be less fun if someone got that on their first try. But, again, some peopl…

Now you know more about your local area!

No I don't, I said I live next door to it, so I knew it.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by adamlynch »

TimPC wrote: post #54
adamlynch wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices. I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc. Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could.…

The circle is a bit large as in larger than a single neighborhood for my city. I feel like the game is useful when it asks you how well you know a single neighborhood. It’s less interesting when it asks you how well you know 2.5 neighborhoods.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering adding difficulty modes or a way to change the radius. I'd rather that people wouldn't get a perfect score too easily though

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by adamlynch »

admax88qqq wrote: post #59
astura wrote: post #58

Depends on what you're looking for but I think this would be more fun if it excluded very tiny streets, like minimum length. I got what is essentially a driveway for two houses that's not paved or labeled, nobody would know it's name (or that it was a named street even) unless you lived on it or next door to it. (I live next door to it). Might be less fun if someone got that on their first try. But, again, some peopl…

Now you know more about your local area!

It's interesting seeing so many different opinions on the difficulty (whether it's street length, circle radius, etc). I wonder would the same people's opinions on GeoGuessr correlate or not

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by adamlynch »

code_runner wrote: post #63

Love this! Works great on mobile. Awesome idea.

Thanks. I'm glad to hear that because I put effort into mobile. I thought it would be my older family members that would like it the most and use it on phones or tablets (I was right)

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by myself248 »

adamlynch wrote: post #43
pivo wrote: post #39

I failed completely because in my selection (US: Boston/Cambridge) there are multiple streets with the same name like Broadway and First Street, and I always picked the wrong one.

If they have exactly the same name then you should've gotten points. If so, please give me an example and I'll fix it. If it was "Roxbury St" versus "Roxbury Ave", then you're just unlucky sorry

Yeah, this is killing me. NORTH WOODWARD AVE turns into WOODWARD AVE turns into NORTH WOODWARD AVE turns into SOUTH WOODWARD AVE turns into WOODWARD AVE turns into NORTH WOODWARD AVE completely at random, and none of them count as each other. And sometimes multiple parts of the same road show up in the same quiz.

I know this is fundamentally an OSM data problem, but it's also your UX problem now. (N 42.5, W 83.17 if you want to have a look.)

Also it was quizzing me on park trails. And I just got an underwater tunnel at the zoo. I guess those are technically named ways in some manner of speaking, but they're definitely not streets with signs.

All that aside, this is really fun! Personal best 470/500. I wish I could make it longer; n=5 is a small sample and my scores vary tremendously from one run to the next.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by myself248 »

kfajdsl wrote: post #66

I basically failed because almost all of the selections were random tiny roads in subdivisions (thanks Atlanta sprawl). Got all the roads with thru traffic though!

Oooo.

Longer roads should score more points because they're more important / you're a bigger idiot for missing them? ;)

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