Website, not web app. Static website if it has no backend. Strictly speaking, 'static' used to mean no JavaScript either, so perhaps 'jamstack' is the appropriate neologism.
The pictures come straight from Wikipedia. From the picture for North Korea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea): Territory controlled by North Korea shown in dark green; territory claimed but not controlled shown in light green.
I've been playing Travle for a while, didn't know it had a dedicated URL for the challenges, that's nice. I wish the challenges had an infinite play mode like https://travle.earth/practice/, but oh well. Thanks for linking that!
Five at random would be fairly trivial, do you mean giving the five adjacent or nearest countries? Then one would learn to tell them apart, or even if not, at least you'd learn to associate the area whenever hearing about that country on the news or so. That would be a nice improvement probably!
I mean, there is no "objective" list of countries everyone agrees on, nor how many are there in total. You're gonna upset some people regardless of which definition you choose.
> If I click "Check" without typing anything and then click "Correct" my score goes up.
I believe that’s a feature. If you can’t find the actual answer (or don’t want to) you can just say or think the answer for yourself, then check and honestly choose if you got it right. That way you still get to keep track of your score, without having to input the name every time.
The hard ones for me were countries in mainland Africa, island nations in the Atlantic and the Pacific, and small adjacent countries that you associate in a group – say Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, or Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan.
If you know Kazakhstan is the biggest then you can get the rest. They're alphabetical going clockwise from Kazakhstan -> Kyrgyzstan -> Tajikistan -> Turkmenistan -> Uzbekistan
You could do easier difficulty by making the questions multiple choice. (I mean, technically it's already multiple choice, but say 5ish choices.) Potentially could have multiple levels of difficulty by varying the number of choices, or by selecting options by proximity.
Gameplay wise, I find the feedback loop to be lacking tho. Right now, there's no much feedback other than "You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...". This makes it less of an educational game and more like a test.
For me, I'm always close, so revealing neighbor countries on the map along with the answer (especially for small countries) can add a "spaced repetition" element to the game, it help your brain connect the dots and feel more productive and fun
This. There used to be a fun geography game on the Commodore 64 where you had to fly a helicopter over countries/capitals. It was fun because when you had no idea where a country was, you just kept flying in circles. They got the gameplay right to some degree.
I love it, my only feedback was the I didn't really understand which I was supposed to pick when it showed me N. Korea. Because all I saw the Korean Peninsula, and the north was dark green and the south was light green.
It seems to be showing the recognised territories in dark green and contested areas in light green (e.g. for Russia, Crimea is also in light green, although interestingly not Eastern Ukraine, and IIRC the West of Guyana was shown in light green for Venezula).
These things are always slightly arbitrary, e.g. why include Taiwan but not, say, Somaliland (both are unrecognised by most other states but de facto independent).
That is correct about the green colors work. Most of the maps are from wikipedia and that's how they do show contested areas in light green. I think I will change them though to another source because it is confusing.
Yep, when North Korea is selected, both North Korea and South Korea are highlighted and it's not clear which country is requested. Same goes for South Korea.
I think the better way for me would be to form some (really, any) kind of association to more African countries, most of which are a total blur to me. Most other countries I could say something about.
It doesn't help that most of Africa is basically only in the media if there's a disease or war or something.
That does help for sure - I have friends who are from or have been to Kenya, Zambia, Mali, Gambia, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and a few others, so perhaps I've got a bit of a head start. If you're starting from scratch, one enjoyable way is to read their Wikipedia articles when they come up in the news, that way you don't just get the sensationalised news stories and can form more rounded associations with the country.
I enjoyed it; I like that you can use this without entering the country name, i.e. do just "Check" -> "Correct"/"Wrong". This is such a fast and rewarding loop, reminds me of flash cards or spaced repetition apps.
I'm at 27/45 when I ran out of available time (IRL), which is pretty depressing for someone who once knew them all :(
The ones you never hear about slip the mind. Sure I can still say Zambia is near South Africa, but which one is Mozambique, which one Botswana, and which one Zambia? Hard
I even had trouble remembering Yemen! Always found that easy for some reason, especially after I remembered that the order is "YO!" (Yemen, then Oman). Again not a country much news comes from
This is legitimately great! Would love it if there was some sort of session persistence (even if it's just an array in localStorage of countries I've already covered.) that way I could play through all the countries without having to keep the window open. Simple and effective game! Nice job :)
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You still need the CDN, so they're not classically serverless (https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html)
These both seem to be one per day, so you can't sit there and do a whole bunch in a row.
Certainly not clear if I should put North Korea or South Korea.
I really like travle.earth: https://travle.earth/challenge/
Keep up the great work.
-> Around 30 member states of the UN also fail to recognize the statehood of Israel...
* Typing a few letters then pressing tab closes the dropdown instead of selecting options in the dropdown
* when the text box is selecting, pressing enter does nothing; I need to press tab then enter to submit the answer
The need to click "submit" was my biggest bad UX moment
If I click "Check" without typing anything and then click "Correct" my score goes up.
I believe that’s a feature. If you can’t find the actual answer (or don’t want to) you can just say or think the answer for yourself, then check and honestly choose if you got it right. That way you still get to keep track of your score, without having to input the name every time.
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Also possible with Russia + either one of those:
* Ukraine
* Norway
* Poland
* Estonia
* Lithuania
* North Korea
* China
* Latvia
* Finland
* Georgia
* Mongolia
* Kazakhstan
* Belarus
* Azerbaijan
Gameplay wise, I find the feedback loop to be lacking tho. Right now, there's no much feedback other than "You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...". This makes it less of an educational game and more like a test.
For me, I'm always close, so revealing neighbor countries on the map along with the answer (especially for small countries) can add a "spaced repetition" element to the game, it help your brain connect the dots and feel more productive and fun
Screenshots: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/maps-usa-n4v
* Show the incorrect guess you just made on the map, even if not close
* Repeat countries that you got wrong within the next 10 turns, to learn by repetition
These things are always slightly arbitrary, e.g. why include Taiwan but not, say, Somaliland (both are unrecognised by most other states but de facto independent).
File: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Venezuel...
Page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venezuela_Orthographic_...
…or from … CIA.gov "World Factbook" site (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/), e.g.: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/static/f7ce629bc057da...
I couldn’t name 98% of the countries. Realised my geography sucks
It doesn't help that most of Africa is basically only in the media if there's a disease or war or something.
I enjoyed it; I like that you can use this without entering the country name, i.e. do just "Check" -> "Correct"/"Wrong". This is such a fast and rewarding loop, reminds me of flash cards or spaced repetition apps.
The ones you never hear about slip the mind. Sure I can still say Zambia is near South Africa, but which one is Mozambique, which one Botswana, and which one Zambia? Hard
I even had trouble remembering Yemen! Always found that easy for some reason, especially after I remembered that the order is "YO!" (Yemen, then Oman). Again not a country much news comes from
Nice game. Would be great if the gameplay moved on to the next country after a correct or wrong answer, without the need to hit the "Continue" button.
Got 182/195! Hate the Oceania and Caribbean for always making me lose points in quizzes :D
It's like 195 jpegs, just pre-load them please. I can't continue like this after 3 countries, it's too tedious.