Love it! Nice job.
It would be nice to have a link with more information about the single photos, at least the exact time and place where it was shot, i can then look for the related events myself.
Chronophoto
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#142First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I managed to pick the exact year for, scored ju…
Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising?
Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process.
This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s.
And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be surprising.
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#143First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I managed to pick the exact year for, scored ju…
Why would photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour be surprising? Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process. This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s. And in 1935-1936 effectively modern col…
Perhaps, but this particular one (looked like some dignitary inspecting an army, assuming an Asian country but couldn't say which) was especially crisp with high colour saturation that didn't match that of other photos from that period, indeed I assumed it was from the 70s or 80s.
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#144I feel like this would work even better as a daily game like Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can (lightly) compete with friends. And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
The trivia thing was asked for at reddit too, but i looked into the file storage of the server and it seems that the photos are just plainly stolen from all over the internet with file names like chronophoto.app/years/1963/ap630629032-02fcaf4ca7736109b998d760283a3a9ba7bceda7-s900-c85.webp
or
chronophoto.app/years/2017/ed-jones-north-korea-top-100-photos-2017.jpg
No credit is given anywhere too. This is probably illegal and the author will get in a lot of trouble if he does not do something about that soon.
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#145I feel like this would work even better as a daily game like Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can (lightly) compete with friends. And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
Why would this work better as a daily game like wordle? I ask because I disagree. Visuals are far more infinite than guessing a 5 letter word with restricted choices. Chrono and Wordle are not comparable.
Well I want to play it again
Re: Chronophoto
#146I feel like this would work even better as a daily game like Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can (lightly) compete with friends. And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
The trivia thing was asked for at reddit too, but i looked into the file storage of the server and it seems that the photos are just plainly stolen from all over the internet with file names like chronophoto.app/years/1963/ap630629032-02fcaf4ca7736109b998d760283a3a9ba7bceda7-s900-c85.webp or chronophoto.app/years/2017/ed-jones-north-korea-top-100-photos-2017.jpg No credit is given anywhere too. This is probably illeg…
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#147I feel I'd be doing better at this game if I was a car person. The only time I've got the year spot on was with a photo of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein. The worst I did was guess 1960 on a black and white photo taken almost directly above of some cars on a road, it was actually 1980. Fun but tricky
I was a cat nut in middle school. The four photos with cars? All guessed within 5 years. The one without a car? Off by 30 years.
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#148Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the older the photo was. It’s a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910 apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
I found 1973-1997 looking very similar in color film quality, and cars on the street. maybe if I was more familiar with models, maybe. it was only obvious it was 80s or 90s if something silly was going on. my top score is 2900 right now
I got a bunch of Edwardian—WW2 photos in one go, and netted 3190. I might be able to get higher than that, but only if the photos predate 2000.
I think styles changed a lot from 1900—1970. After that, things are pretty hard to distinguish; retroactive clothing styles muddyvthe waters.
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#1493820 so far I like this
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#150My best over probably 50 games was 4261. It's really fun to play with other people too and make guesses together.