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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

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Post by blackmoon42 »

eddieweng wrote: post #12
nittanymount wrote: post #2

nice, where did you get the videos from?

The videos are all hosted on youtube.

Which explains how I can cheat sometimes... When I go to the lockscreen on my phone I can see the title of the video.

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Post by Leftium »

91dylwyn wrote: post #23
91dylwyn wrote: post #22

This is pretty fascinating!!

Maybe you could you make it so people can add a place. I guess upload to youtube, geo-tag it. It would be fun to get to add your place to the game. I would like to try with a VR headset

On the [home page], there is a link to a [submission form].

[home page]: https://www.explordle.com/

[submission form]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfD6VZ0xPYcqk-oEAD6...

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by pcthrowaway »

This is amazing. I think it'll make a good party game also, especially if the attendees are well-traveled or international.

edit: Would be amazing if you added a competitive mode also, where two or more parties would get the same series of videos (randomly generated from a unique URL or something). And see who can get the most points out of 100 or so. Even better of the options are labeled A-D and randomized so groups in the same room can discuss which one they want to pick without leaking information

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Post by rapjr9 »

eddieweng wrote: post #10
noduerme wrote: post #4

This 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!

If you don't guess will the videos show up again and again? I'm not interested in the guessing game aspect, I just want to watch the videos.

Re: Show HN: I made a website for you to travel the world in first-person POV

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Post by em-bee »

i love the idea. unfortunately probably due to my slow connection i get an extremely low resolution on the video making it very difficult to recognize any details because everything looks blurry. i'd rather have less or slower video but at a higher resolution. 360p at least. 480p would be better.

also, please check the browser language. due to my location i get city names in a language i can't read.

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