I 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
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#72Finally! A game I enjoy and am somewhat good at.
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#73Neat simple little trivia thing, but fun to think about each one and any clues. I got 1969, 1968, 1971, 1906 and 1904, score of 3435. First two were war related, for 1000 and 777. First was b&w but obvious forest clearing mid Vietnam war, so bit of a guess but on the dot, then the second was a color picture of a bus with "Saigon" on it that I underestimated but again, era was clearly Vietnam. Second one showed people in front of cricket scoreboard and with all the batters names and that was pure luck for me because only one possible famous match featured those players! (test #679, Australia v Sydney 1971). Utterly bombed the next, 83 points, I agree with others that I found older photos tougher. Guess 1923, way off. Then I could guess at the final based on the period late 1800s/early 1900s dress at 1910 which was good for 575.
Anyway, fun in terms of trying different strategies and it making one focus on the details whereas normally with photographs it's easy to just sort of look at it more abstractly without really thinking about it. Could be a neat party game even as-is, but I also agree with a sibling poster that it'd be easy to expand a touch to favor that (allow having n different guesses each with different colors, so everyone can take a shot for each image for some light competition maybe?).
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#74Wow cool idea, fun.
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#75Simple 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
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#76So fun! Have some friends courious about culture and history that will love this.
I think the UX can improve a bit:
- Would like that after a submit show both the correct date and the player guess, now only shows the correct date on screen (and the guess in the slider but not with numbers, just a visual gap)
- The slider is a bit hard to interact on phones.
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#77Simple 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
Changes in consumer-grade photo quality between 70s/80s/90s are actually quite visible if you've looked at many of them. It's subtle, but e.g. newer ones have better range in brightness, i.e. less overly bright or dark areas in high-contrast images.
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#78I got a 1976 and a 1992 correct on my only attempt. What are the odds of that? You can narrow a picture down to roughly a 20 yr span. Is that 1 in 400 for just those two? Worst case would be 100 x 100?
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#79Wow… for the first time in my life, knowing intricate information about film development colouring paid off
It's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour... from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I assume recoloured later? There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.
> I assume recoloured later?
Color capable film has been around since the late 19th century.
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#80At least one of the photos is mislabeled.
This one[0] shows time square with an ad for a UFC fight that happens in 2009, but it's labelled as 2007.
