I have tried it three times and I find this way of teleporting very pleasant. I am particularly bad in geography, but it seemed to me that the places of some videos were sometimes particularly easy to identify. It's good when you feel lost.
And the three times around the twenty videos I had a bug (with Firefox). And lost all my progress.
This is so awesome! I love it. Completely enchanting. I did 100 and got 89 right; and saw a few places I had lived =)
I had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. It think this would be a great educational tool.
Some thoughts (in no particular order)...
* I had one repeat video (which I had gotten wrong the first time), and two videos of the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin).
* It's interesting how many of them have flags in the shot - were the shots selected this way on purpose? It made me think how often there are flags everywhere that we barely notice. That plus the writing system, plus which side of the road people are driving on, makes some of them fairly easy. I imagine you could make a more difficult level if you wanted to, just by increasing the number of multiple choice answers or making more of them be from the same country or region.
* I wish there was a way to share your score with friends.
Thank you, this is great! One thing - I'm not in USA, and only people in USA, I guess, know those two-letter state abbreviations. I got one where I had to choose based on two two-letter codes I didn't know. Using the whole state name would make it more international.
Even for those of us in the US, this can be confusing. I had to memorize those codes a long time ago, but I haven't really used most of them in decades. For example, MI. Is that Michigan, Missouri, or Mississippi? (It's Michigan.) MS? Mississippi. MO is Missouri, which isn't intuitive unless you already know the other 2 and realize there isn't a lot of other letters they could use.
This is one of my favorite things I’ve seen on the internet in a while. Just so awesome. One thing I think that might be improved would be to prevent some situations where for example I was given as choices something like China, Vietnam, County A in West Virginia, County B in West Virginia. It clearly was in West Virginia (too easy), but which county was too difficult.
This is amazing. I think it'll make a good party game also, especially if the attendees are well-traveled or international.
edit: Would be amazing if you added a competitive mode also, where two or more parties would get the same series of videos (randomly generated from a unique URL or something). And see who can get the most points out of 100 or so. Even better of the options are labeled A-D and randomized so groups in the same room can discuss which one they want to pick without leaking information
i love the idea.
unfortunately probably due to my slow connection i get an extremely low resolution on the video making it very difficult to recognize any details because everything looks blurry. i'd rather have less or slower video but at a higher resolution. 360p at least. 480p would be better.
also, please check the browser language. due to my location i get city names in a language i can't read.
Neat. The presence of flags makes it almost too easy :-)
It seems pretty similar to https://virtualvacation.us/guess (which I just run across earlier today), except you're asked to click on a map to solve instead of using multiple choice.
I often watch POV walking/biking videos when working out indoors (rambalac for Japan, prowalk tours for Italy/Europe, watched walker for London, …) and thanks to your site I’ve found a couple more channels I was not aware of: could you maybe have a page where you list all the channels you are using (with maybe the amount of videos from each)?
From a gaming standpoint maybe I would show the source button only after the user has made a guess, as well as having an auto play button that can be disabled in case the user just wants to play random POV videos as screensaver or keep watching for a while after guessing.
Cool, but...
Where am I? I see a video, and some buttons for other locations.
But it doesn't show what I am looking at in the current video.
Is it a puzzle? You have to figure that out? If so, please say that somewhere.
Took me a while too. The domain (explordle) would have made it kind of obvious given the current trends of wordle clones, but I was misled by HN title which seemed to imply (imo at least) it was some kind of exploration app instead of a guessing game.
This is really neat. I think if you had the geoguesser style of map or head-to-head competitions, it could really take off in the twitch streaming world.
Addictive! Would make for a great TV app (iOS/Android developer here). Multi-player each with their own controller to collect answers and reveal the winners.
Yeah, I had a similar score. It is way too easy, I'd say. I often had video segments that gave the answer away: a skyline with skyscrapers, and a list with one mega city and three random unknown towns, I had the Eiffel tower, and several signs with the location name. I know that the last can't be filtered out, but maybe the selection of the three wrong choices needs to be made a bit more... similar?
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 167 ms ] threadI had a momentary flashback to playing Carmen Sandiego when I was a kid. It think this would be a great educational tool.
Some thoughts (in no particular order)...
* I had one repeat video (which I had gotten wrong the first time), and two videos of the Brandenburger Tor (Berlin).
* It's interesting how many of them have flags in the shot - were the shots selected this way on purpose? It made me think how often there are flags everywhere that we barely notice. That plus the writing system, plus which side of the road people are driving on, makes some of them fairly easy. I imagine you could make a more difficult level if you wanted to, just by increasing the number of multiple choice answers or making more of them be from the same country or region.
* I wish there was a way to share your score with friends.
Great project!
* Yes the difficulty of the game is what I'm working on next
* Sharing score with friends: I'm thinking of a daily question set and a sharable format like wordle :P
Glad you like it and thank you for your feedback!
- "unmuted" "visible"
instead of
- "mute", "hide".
Button/label showing current state of the app is better than how the state will change via the button.
So yeah, full names is better. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLECCmKnrys
I would like to try with a VR headset
[home page]: https://www.explordle.com/
[submission form]: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfD6VZ0xPYcqk-oEAD6...
edit: Would be amazing if you added a competitive mode also, where two or more parties would get the same series of videos (randomly generated from a unique URL or something). And see who can get the most points out of 100 or so. Even better of the options are labeled A-D and randomized so groups in the same room can discuss which one they want to pick without leaking information
also, please check the browser language. due to my location i get city names in a language i can't read.
It seems pretty similar to https://virtualvacation.us/guess (which I just run across earlier today), except you're asked to click on a map to solve instead of using multiple choice.
Tried clicking source and got an error:
https://www.explordle.comhttps//www.youtube.com/watch?v=qArF... not found
Good ice-breaker too.
From a gaming standpoint maybe I would show the source button only after the user has made a guess, as well as having an auto play button that can be disabled in case the user just wants to play random POV videos as screensaver or keep watching for a while after guessing.
Still, enjoying it now :)
[0] https://www.geoguessr.com
[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/GeoWizard
[0] https://virtualvacation.us/guess
I got carried away playing, was super fun. Nice one OP!
Good work otherwise though, very nice!