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Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by adamlynch »

nannal wrote: post #97
adamlynch wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm considering adding difficulty modes or a way to change the radius. I'd rather that people wouldn't get a perfect score too easily though

I want to chime in as well to say I felt the circle was too large, I know districts in cities vary in size a lot but, but the game covered ~6 with mine in the middle. Checking the village I grew up in also covered the edges of three towns around it and a neighboring village.

Thanks. For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

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Post by adamlynch »

adamlynch wrote: post #137
bussiere wrote: post #136

Good concept but the circle on european city may have too many streets to know them. having the option to choose the size of the circle could be nice :)

This has come up so much. I'll be adding it, thanks!

For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.

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Post by adamlynch »

adamlynch wrote: post #24
mahathu wrote: post #17

adam, I loved this and also shared it in my family WhatsApp group. we all had a lot of fun playing it, thanks for the great idea and execution! one minor suggestion: consider adding a cross or some other indicator at the circle of the screen during the map selection stage. I found that sometimes you want to move the circle a few metres in some direction, but it's difficult to guess/tap where the new center should be…

Great to hear! Thanks for the feedback. An alternative might be to make the circle draggable

I've added a marker to the centre of the circle. Thanks again

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Post by vmladenov »

Minor feedback: the game amusingly asked me for the street I live on first, so I tapped it, but it said I was 9m away. When I zoomed in very close, I saw it was calculating a diagonal from the pin to the nearest intersection rather than a perpendicular line to the street.

Might be worth accounting for the zoom level for taps / adjusting the distance. I did this on iOS.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by planetsprite »

adamlynch wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices. I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc. Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could.…

I played once and it asked me to locate the same street 3 times in one 5 question round.

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by JSoet »

adamlynch wrote: post #2

Hi HN, I made Back Of Your Hand, a map-based game where you're given random street names and you have to locate them on the map. You can play solo or compete with friends on other devices. I made it for my dad as a Christmas present. It also gave me an opportunity to learn about geocoding, etc. Tech: serverless, Leaflet, Turf, Svelte, TypeScript, Cloudflare pages. I tried to use as many open / free tools as I could.…

Fun game, great job, but sometimes the scoring seems kind of random, I would sometimes get ~80 points when placing it pretty much directly on the street, and then sometimes get 90 points when guessing and being a few blocks away...

Along with what you mentioned about having different difficulties in terms of radius, would also be fun to be able to choose the difficulty in terms of what types of streets (main streets vs side streets - e.g. only one type, or a mix, or turning down the selection of numbered streets somehow)

Re: Show HN: A game that tests how well you know your local area

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Post by lienhoangduy »

Hey, It's a really fun app. Congratulations on the launch! Some small feedbacks: - The radius should be adjustable - Compete with friends (Can make it viral) - Don't know how it calculates the point. Sometimes I choose the place very far from the target but I've gotten a higher score than the time I chose the near one.
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