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

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Post by rubyfan »

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.…

how does this get my location? I use a Cloudflare WARP+ which seems to mask my IP for most sites but this one looks like it’s using a nearby cell tower?

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

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Post by adamlynch »

rubyfan wrote: post #131
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.…

how does this get my location? I use a Cloudflare WARP+ which seems to mask my IP for most sites but this one looks like it’s using a nearby cell tower?

I don't know exactly but I use the geolocation information Cloudflare gives me in my edge function/worker. It's not 100% accurate or reliable. Your result can vary minutes apart or depending on which network you're on.

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

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Post by kuu »

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.…

First of all: it's really cool and fun! Congratulations!

As a small feedback: adjustable radius would be more fun. For example in the town were I had my childhood, this area is too big and takes other neighbourhood/cities that I don't know, but for where I live now it fits great.

Again, nice job and congratulations for making it!

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

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Post by baliex »

adamlynch wrote: post #129
ladberg wrote: post #128

Pretty cool! As a suggestion it might be a good idea to copy one of Wordle's simple-but-genius features and make it easy for users to share a text based summary of their results with others.

That was a great idea. I'll have to come up with a nice way of representing your results

You could have a look into how https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ does it. I'm sure there are better ways but might spark some inspiratino at least!

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

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Post by adamlynch »

kuu wrote: post #133
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.…

First of all: it's really cool and fun! Congratulations! As a small feedback: adjustable radius would be more fun. For example in the town were I had my childhood, this area is too big and takes other neighbourhood/cities that I don't know, but for where I live now it fits great. Again, nice job and congratulations for making it!

Thank you :)

This has come up so much. I'll be adding it, thanks!

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

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Post by sapphire_tomb »

laurent123456 wrote: post #123

Not sure the selected area is suitable for a city like London - there are just too many small streets in every directions to be able to know them all, or even half of them. It's possibly more suitable in US cities for example that are divided into large blocks and large roads.

Oh I don't know. I'm going to send this to a friend of mine who's an ex black cab driver. If he doesn't get full marks I'll be amazed.

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

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Post by adamlynch »

baliex wrote: post #135
adamlynch wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was a great idea. I'll have to come up with a nice way of representing your results

You could have a look into how https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/ does it. I'm sure there are better ways but might spark some inspiratino at least!

Thanks. Looks like this:

#Worldle #57 X/6 (69%) ⬛⬛⬛⬅ ⬛⬛⬇ ⬛⬛⬇ ⬛⬛⬇ ⬛⬛⬇ ⬛⬛↘ https://worldle.teuteuf.fr

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