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Show HN: A mobile-friendly, web-based, countries of the world game

112 pointsby emurph55over 6 years ago

31 comments

throwaway2016aover 6 years ago
As someone who is kind of awful at geography I think this is pretty great. Kind of a Duo Lingo for countries of the world.<p>However, I found the population ones frustrating because there were multiple answers kind of in the same ballpark. For example, I think it makes sense to teach people a country of 20 million vs a country of 100 million but 57,100,000 vs 57,200,000 is a bit of a trick question to me.<p>Also, when I did get questions wrong I found the app very unhelpful to correct me. As others have stated, those info boxes are much more useful after a wrong answer than a right one. Most of the ones I got wrong was a guessing game to randomly pick something.
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Waterluvianover 6 years ago
This is great. I&#x27;m a big fan of anything that makes memorization and learning fun and iterative.<p>Is it appropriate if I share one of my own creations?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ablakey.github.io&#x2F;state-machine&#x2F;index.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ablakey.github.io&#x2F;state-machine&#x2F;index.html</a><p>The State Machine is a little geography game I made that I think can be addictive due to its simplicity.
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eksemplarover 6 years ago
The “back” function seem broken on mobile. Also, it’s not a fun learning experience if you don’t get the correct answer when you get something wrong.<p>It’s also not “unlucky” to be wrong, don’t patronise your users.
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uxamandaover 6 years ago
Neat! Happy it works on mobile web. FYI, there’s a short pause after getting a wrong answer that almost seems like the app is waiting for me to try again. Sadly if I tap during that moment, the ui updates and then I get the next one wrong too. Maybe hide or grey out the answers once you get a question wrong? Or as a sibling comment said, just show the extra info right or wrong. Thanks for sharing!
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arendtioover 6 years ago
Looks pretty and feels good :-)<p>Reminds me of the &#x27;Ultimate Geography&#x27; decks for Anki [1].<p>Would love to see some kind of a multiplayer version.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ankiweb.net&#x2F;shared&#x2F;info&#x2F;2109889812" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ankiweb.net&#x2F;shared&#x2F;info&#x2F;2109889812</a>
k__over 6 years ago
Breaks the back-button.<p>Would be kinda nicer if it didn&#x27;t store so much data in the URLs.
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Henk0over 6 years ago
Nice!<p>I like the idea and design<p>Two things that bugged me:<p>1. I&#x27;d like a fast mode, where you just get immediate feedback on the answer (with correct answer displayed) and then onto next question immediately without showing the country info bit<p>2. who&#x27;s flag -&gt; whose flag (or &quot;which country&#x27;s flag is this&quot;)
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frredomover 6 years ago
This is cool. One nit: The &quot;read more about&quot; button isn&#x27;t a button, but a clickable div. So it doesn&#x27;t look like a clickable element to Vimium, screen readers, etc.<p>Otherwise, good job.
scotty79over 6 years ago
I thin you should gather people&#x27;s mistakes for each question and present correct answer together with some of the most mistaken ones.<p>I got 6&#x2F;7 capitals right (7th on second try) just by eliminating insane sounding ones and without actually being able to name the capital of any country I was asked about.
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emurph55over 6 years ago
Just a simple game I made to keep myself occupied on flights and on the metro. Still very much a WIP.
nderjungover 6 years ago
I think the &#x27;some info&#x27; page should be shown after every answer, especially on answers that were marked as incorrect. How will I ever learn if it doesn&#x27;t tell me what the right answer is? Other than that, nice work!
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mntvrtxover 6 years ago
Looking at the URL: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geogee.me&#x2F;-ze-a1-ah-za-a2-xa4-zg-aa-zg-a4-zg-ab-zg-a5-za-a3-b8-zg-af-bd-zg-b5-ze-a6-ze-ag%22Ljubljana%22-zg-al-d200-zb-ag%22Yerevan%22-zg-al-d010-zb-ag%22Sana&#x27;a%22-zg-al-d242-zb-ag%22Anju%22-zg-al-d160-zf-za-a7-ze-ag-c200-zg-ay%22Ljubljana%22-zg%22lnglat%22%3A%5B14.81666666-zg46.11666666-za-ak-e200-zg-al-d200-zd-be-ah-zf-zf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;geogee.me&#x2F;-ze-a1-ah-za-a2-xa4-zg-aa-zg-a4-zg-ab-zg-a...</a>, it seems that the answer is always the last city name mentioned in the URL, so you could cheat at this pretty easily
puranjayover 6 years ago
Love it. Especially like that it&#x27;s actually difficult. I used to think I&#x27;m good at geography, but after getting just 4&#x2F;7 on the capital cities quiz, maybe I&#x27;m not so hot after all.
sonecaover 6 years ago
I too was annoyed by the broke back button. But that&#x27;s a great game. I enjoyed the chance to get it right by the end of the quiz and the educational content after each question.
indifferentalexover 6 years ago
Just as a heads up since I don&#x27;t see it mentioned in the comments yet, I got a description of Palestine for Peru, apart from the hiccup it&#x27;s definitely a lot of fun
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gnodarover 6 years ago
Not sure if the &quot;Maps of X&quot; games are titled appropriately. They should be called &quot;Shapes of X&quot;. Even after learning shapes of various countries, I don&#x27;t learn where they are on a map, though I can recognize them by searching a map and eventually identifying them by their shape. Maybe in the info section after you guess it right, you can show a map and show the country you just identified highlighted on the map.
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oeviover 6 years ago
Another good &quot;countries of the world game&quot; which is more based on maps is: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;click-that-hood.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;click-that-hood.com&#x2F;</a><p>Especially the Africa variant: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youdontknowafrica.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youdontknowafrica.com&#x2F;</a>
Flandsover 6 years ago
When asked what country boarders France only Switzerland is marked as correct, picking Spain is marked as incorrect.
bmn__over 6 years ago
Bugs:<p>1. spelling error: Who&#x27;s flag → Whose flag<p>2. Nepal&#x27;s flag shows a white background, it needs to be transparent!<p>3. There&#x27;s too much artificial delay, eliminate it to vastly improve the UX. Compare with your competitors; in the time it takes to complete only seven quiz questions on geogee I can tear through dozens of them on kgeography v0.9.
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tinktankover 6 years ago
Nice work. What&#x27;s your stack and did you do the site design yourself? It&#x27;s quite nice.
lyspover 6 years ago
Quick comment.<p>I got 3 incorrect questions on population wrong.<p>In the &quot;try again&quot; mode at the end, I couldn&#x27;t actually remember which ones I answered incorrectly for each question.<p>So it might help to indicate which answers you already got wrong in that phase.
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akuji1993over 6 years ago
I got a question about the Chinese flag. It being black stars for some reason, I thought it&#x27;s another country and guessed wrong three times. Check your flags, something seems to be wrong with the colors.
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t0mislavover 6 years ago
I made something similiar, but it is not nice looking like this :&#x2F;
BrissyCoderover 6 years ago
Found a bug: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mVVi5a8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;mVVi5a8</a><p>Very cool though! :-)
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huxfluxover 6 years ago
I don&#x27;t see the point of this except it is open-source. Take a look regarding how you load the SVG as well.
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masonicover 6 years ago
Nice.. sort of like Sporcle in style.<p>It keeps adding to the URL with every answer... will it eventually crash from that?
aamitgr8over 6 years ago
featured requested - want list of countries which offer work visa(permits)
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ivolimmenover 6 years ago
Is it open source? Would love to contribute other languages (I am Dutch)
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lewisj489over 6 years ago
Whenever I select an answer I get thrown back to the homepage.<p>Do you know why?
nuguyover 6 years ago
This is brilliant.
PavlovsCatover 6 years ago
This is really beautiful. And it even made me think about how sad it is to know nothing about so many small, &quot;unimportant&quot; countries. So I bookmarked it, and thanks.<p>Also thank you for making something that is not yet another app that didn&#x27;t have to be one. Making a mobile friendly site that looks great on desktop is certainly possible, and that&#x27;s the side we should err on IMO.