Great game! It's really fun bro. I now understand that I have no idea of my city at allll. LOL
Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
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Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#242Hi 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.…
I played once and it asked me to locate the same street 3 times in one 5 question round.
Will fix this, thanks. Any further info would be helpful
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#243Hey, It's a really fun app. Congratulations on the launch! Some small feedbacks: - The radius should be adjustable - Compete with friends (Can make it viral) - Don't know how it calculates the point. Sometimes I choose the place very far from the target but I've gotten a higher score than the time I chose the near one.
Thank you.
>The radius should be adjustable
Yes I will be working on an adjustable radius (I made it 20% smaller yesterday btw) and difficulty modes.
>Compete with friends (Can make it viral)
You can compete with friends. Click "Learn more" to figure out how to do that. I will also be looking into a "share score" functionality as well as leaderboards maybe.
>Don't know how it calculates the point
I'm aware of an issue in how the distance is measured and will fix it. Sometimes there can also be a discrepancy between the data and the rendered map.
Thanks for the feedback!
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#244How much does this cost to run with the whole Mapbox thing?
First I used OpenStreetMap tiles (and no Mapbox) but the no-streets one was discontinued. So then I created a custom map layer with Maptiler and used Mapbox-GL because Maptiler's free plan only allows that. I use Mapbox and Maptiler on the free plan. They both have limits but I haven't ran into them yet. And I've seen a LOT of page views today. There are probably features I don't use that trigger limits more easily t…
This morning I hit the Maptiler free plan limit. I now pay $30/month for it (annoyingly they don't include sales tax in their displayed prices). I think the limit goes a long way though
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#245Thank you! I enjoy it!
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#246Minor feedback: the game amusingly asked me for the street I live on first, so I tapped it, but it said I was 9m away. When I zoomed in very close, I saw it was calculating a diagonal from the pin to the nearest intersection rather than a perpendicular line to the street. Might be worth accounting for the zoom level for taps / adjusting the distance. I did this on iOS.
Thank you! This is an issue I'm aware of and will fix. Never considered zoom... interesting!
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#247Hi 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.…
I was asked same street twice in 5 attempts
This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#248Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#249Awesome game! Works wonderful for Vancouver, BC. One thing tho - several times I got the same street 2 times in a row.
This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)
Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area
#250it asked me twice the same street, so you should probably look up to avoid that I assume cause it’s like free points.
This is now fixed! (Thanks to a contribution by johrpan)