I enjoyed this a lot. Congratulations :)
Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
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#22This is a great idea - loved it! And I’d love to see the idea expanded further. “AI recreations of historical scenes” is an idea with tons of interesting potential.
Thank you! We have plans to expand it! We've been hearing from a few teachers that they like playing Time Portal with their class because it helps the kids empathize with people in the past. There are some really fun possibilities just in the learning space and more in gaming.
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#23The super anachronistic output makes this really difficult. One of the examples was the battle in the war of the roses but all the imagery suggests over a hundred years later.
Yeah fair point. The game still has an issue with details creeping in that are not correct. I believe we can get these types of errors down quite a bit though.
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#24I enjoyed this a lot. Congratulations :)
Appreciate it!
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#25This is awesome! Definitely some more obscure historical events in there. Agree that the scoring is a bit harsh, especially since the clips are, let’s say, somewhat impressionistic.
Excellent idea and can’t wait for the next version.
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#26My first reaction is that the scoring is too harsh. I got within 50 years and 100 km and the resulting score is 7,406 / 10,000.
I got within 15 years and 200 km but got 7,275 / 10,000. If the expectation is to absolutely nail it, I can hardly imagine who is it for.
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#27I love the concept! A really compelling game , especially for history nerds like me. Two thoughts:
1. The AI imagery is often misaligned with the actual answer, with some anachronistic elements.
2. The scoring seems harsh. I got a couple of answers within 50km and/or 10 years in the time scale but was still severely penalized.
Good luck with this, I will definitely watch your progress and pass it along
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#28This is awesome. I had the same feeling I had when I first played GeoGuessr. It's one of the first times I've seen what is obviously AI-generated video used in a super compelling way. I want to keep playing.
A few super nitpicky comments:
- I dropped my pin for "Seward's Folly" on Alaska. The videos were clear enough that I knew that's what it was, which made me excited. But then it said it happened in Washington, DC.
- It might be sample bias, but I've only gotten events after year 0 (and technically, it went from 1 BCE/BC to 1 CE/AD.
I'd love to play with this my seven year old, but some of the images are too violent. A "PG mode" would be awesome.
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#30So there is a similar thing with a photo from (recent) history - and that has the edge of perfect accuracy - a picture of 1920s Alabama is a real representation.
I had real trouble with the battle of towton just now - the armour was “off” and someone was wondering around with a really cool white rose icon on their breastplate - and I could not work out if it was trying to be accurate or imaginative (accurate woukd look more like these things https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial_of_the_House_of_Pla...)
I mean the fact that there were moving videos of Dutch astronomers or Ethiopian rulers is god damn amazing - it looks luscious
But it also looks … cut-scene. It’s brilliant. But it’s also a work of imagination (LLM imagings).
So it’s quite hard to do the game itself - but it’s amazing to drop people into the context and excite a historical interest.