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Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
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Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#152One interesting observation is how much less variation there has been in clothes for the past 20 years or so. Someone from 2005 could look completely undisguisable from someone today, by just wearing regular non-fashion forward 2005 clothes. Same goes for haircuts. Same can't really said about someone from 1955 and 1975, 1980 - 2000, etc. edit: Score 4695 Avg. Years Off 3.0
I would say athleisure is a recent development. 10 years ago you'd see far fewer women wearing tight leggings outside the gym. Heck, even in gyms you'd be hard pressed to see the kind of tank tops and sport bras you regularly see nowadays [1]
N.B. I'm just noting the phenomenon, not commenting on its merits
[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/women-are-intimidating-men-w...
Re: Which year: guess which year each photo was taken
#153Great idea! The trick is to zoom into peoples clothing, and then the associated event becomes quite obvious. Eg. Photo of Disco, no crazy lapels, obviously towards the end of disco, which puts you within a year or two. Might have gotten lucky but zooming in on clothing got me to 1.8 years off on average (top 2%).
I just went by feel of each and got 2.4 year average, also top 2%. I guess it doesn't do higher than top 2% then. > obviously towards the end of disco What is the end of disco?
I'm not sure why that would mean it doesn't go higher than top 2%, it would only imply the scores you ended up with were in the same percentage bracket.
Confirming this, it looks like you indeed get top 0% when you end on a perfect score of 5000 with an average of 0 years off.
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#154You know, this game pretty much demonstrates how fast cell phone addiction happened. You can tell the year by how many people are staring at their phones, and how big their phones are. You don't see nearly as many people reading newspapers in old photos as there are people gormlessly staring into their phones in contemporary photos.
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#155That was fun and definitely a bit challenging to figure out—I scored 3677, landing in the top 46%, with an average of 9.2 years. As for some (hopefully constructive) feedback: I think the year selection slider could benefit from a few adjustments. If an image is from the distant past—say, pre-1950s—it might make more sense to use decade-based precision rather than individual years. For example, a black-and-white phot…
Hi, I made this game. Really appreciate the feedback! Seems like older images tend to be frustrating, so I think I'll use them less going forward. Also, older photos are scored more generously, so being a few decades off won’t tank your score nearly as much as it would on a newer one.
Adding to the chorus: I like the older images and the precise year is important! The underground shelter is something that wouldn’t exist just a few years after that photo, or before.
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#1574878, avg 2.4 years off. Way better than I thought I'd do, I think I just got lucky. I agree that it's a lot like chronophoto.app, but that also has freeplay. This has a nicer looking UI but I think a worse feature set. In particular the scroll-to-zoom and freeplay on chronophoto are nice to have. Edit: I had seen the photo in the subway before, or something very similar. It's an interesting decision to use photos fr…
Thanks! This is all super helpful. I’m hoping to have something like Chronophoto’s zoom working by tomorrow’s game, and a freeplay-style mode is in the works too. Do you think it's more satisfying to guess based on clues like tech, clothing, and photo quality, or when you recognize the historical event or era (assuming it’s something a little less recognizable than that subway photo)?
I think both are good, it's nice to have variety. It was very satisfying as a user to think that the photo of all the people might be of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, then end up getting the year exactly right. Some photos are inherently gonna be easier to tell than others. Wartime photos can have a fun game of "figure out which war it is based on the equipment". I think the problem with the subway photo is that it's a very memorable situation, to use subway tunnels as shelters. But there are plenty of wartime photos that aren't gonna be that way.
I also like trying to figure out where the photo was taken, even if that isn't strictly part of the game. So I'm glad that the photo caption is there.
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#158What do the last emoji numbers mean when you share your results? Below my points, and how many avg years off, I got a dartboard, then "6", "3", emoji of a blind man walking, then "6".
I think those indicate how far off that guess was. I have a dartboard when I guessed the year exactly right, numbers 1 and 3 matching these years off, and a blind man for >10 years off or around there.
Yes, I confirmed it with the results from other friends. Very unintuitive, though. Just saying "Accuracy:" before the emojis, would give a good enough hint of what those mean.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, I made this game. Really appreciate the feedback! Seems like older images tend to be frustrating, so I think I'll use them less going forward. Also, older photos are scored more generously, so being a few decades off won’t tank your score nearly as much as it would on a newer one.
Adding to the chorus: I like the older images and the precise year is important! The underground shelter is something that wouldn’t exist just a few years after that photo, or before.
> The underground shelter is something that wouldn’t exist just a few years after that photo, or before.
It’s probably there now, it’s the London Underground.
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#160I love this stuff. I was always good at guessing song, movie or photo years.