Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
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Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#2nice, where did you get the videos from?
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#3I have tried it three times and I find this way of teleporting very pleasant. I am particularly bad in geography, but it seemed to me that the places of some videos were sometimes particularly easy to identify. It's good when you feel lost.
And the three times around the twenty videos I had a bug (with Firefox). And lost all my progress.
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#4This is so awesome! I love it. Completely enchanting. I did 100 and got 89 right; and saw a few places I had lived =)
I had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. It think this would be a great educational tool.
Some thoughts (in no particular order)...
* I had one repeat video (which I had gotten wrong the first time), and two videos of the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin).
* It's interesting how many of them have flags in the shot - were the shots selected this way on purpose? It made me think how often there are flags everywhere that we barely notice. That plus the writing system, plus which side of the road people are driving on, makes some of them fairly easy. I imagine you could make a more difficult level if you wanted to, just by increasing the number of multiple choice answers or making more of them be from the same country or region.
* I wish there was a way to share your score with friends.
Great project!
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#5This is so awesome! I love it. Completely enchanting. I did 100 and got 89 right; and saw a few places I had lived =) I had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. It think this would be a great educational tool. Some thoughts (in no particular order)... * I had one repeat video (which I had gotten wrong the first time), and two videos of the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin). * It's interesting h…
I thought 60/100 was good but I have never left the USA.
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#6cool site, confusing UX.
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#7Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two two-letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make it more international.
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#8cool site, confusing UX.
At first I thought it was offering me a choice between 4 random places to go next. That would also be awesome.
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#9Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two two-letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make it more international.
Got it, will fix this. Thanks for your feedback!
Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV
#10This is so awesome! I love it. Completely enchanting. I did 100 and got 89 right; and saw a few places I had lived =) I had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. It think this would be a great educational tool. Some thoughts (in no particular order)... * I had one repeat video (which I had gotten wrong the first time), and two videos of the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin). * It's interesting h…
* The videos will not show up again only if you guess it right
* Yes the difficulty of the game is what I'm working on next
* Sharing score with friends: I'm thinking of a daily question set and a sharable format like wordle :P
Glad you like it and thank you for your feedback!