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Re: Chronophoto

#91

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

I wish it had a seed that you could specify.

Re: Chronophoto

#92
post #84

Is Top Score highest everyone has gotten because I just got 3063 which shows top.

That's yours. I got 4500~. If you score 800ish every round you get around 4000 already.

Re: Chronophoto

#94

I love this. The summary at the end could be a bit more compact. Scrolling all the way to the bottom to start a new page is a bit inconvenient. Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are very hard to place in an exact year.

Use stylebot (chrome) for these type of sites. 1 min or so the site would to your taste.

Re: Chronophoto

#95
post #88

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

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.

People like to compete: seeing the same questions makes the scores comparable. Having common context of the same "daily pics" also creates opportunities for discussion & debate which don't exist otherwise.

Trickling out synchronized games may create more durable entertainment, because otherwise many tend to play intensely until they bore of it, considering it "done" – never checking back.

Returning back each day may generate more 'fun' per game, as the satiation of repeated play is minimized. It also cultivates a reliable audience for incremental changes/experiments that take time to implement & evaluate – assiting iterative improvement.

Re: Chronophoto

#97
post #90
post #39

This is a AI training job gamified isnt it?

What would be the help of this game to ai?

Potentially, it might help find errors in the existing year-labeling - either via recognizing cases where guessers have wide divergences with a certain bias, or the explicit avenue via the about (email with errors).

Or, help identify features of a photo that definitively place it at certain times, by human perception. That might help tune autogenerated content intended to reflect certain eras to avoid anachronisms, or more strongly hint specific years or vague ranges.

Now, I don't think these are likely motivations for the game – the mere fun of playing seems enough to me. But it seems they could be.

Re: Chronophoto

#98
post #25

Simple 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.

One of the photos was labeled with the year, and the game identified it differently. It's all in fun.

Re: Chronophoto

#100
post #25

Simple 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 was finding that I had a harder time with very recent photos. Fashion has become a bit static perhaps.
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