Well executed! Just as a suggestion, incorrect answers could be displayed more prominently so one has more visual feedback about what to learn.<p>Does not look like a beginner's project to me, congrats again!
Despite any mild clunkiness in the actual game (which has been thoroughly covered in other comments, so I won't repeat it), I just wanted to say this is a really nice looking project.<p>I have a complex about my inability to do nice design, I really need to just start doing it on the side I think, as I'm sure I'd get better with practice. But I'm always impressed when stuff looks good as a result of my own inability. So nice work! Keep learning!
This game was fun and made me wonder: have I ever seen a damn flag in my life? Seems like a simple thing, then you get in there and don't know most of them.
After a few minutes of playing, I finally noticed that after you answer, the country of the flag is highlighted on the spinning globe. It's a nice touch. But it only happens if the country is within view range. I think a nice stretch goal would be to make the globe quickly rotate to the country as well.<p>Overall, great job!
Nice little game for curious people. Hard mode: picking the alternatives among geographically-close countries, or countries with similar-looking flags.
This is fantastic and highly addictive! My only suggestion (as others have said) would be to indicate the CORRECT flag's name clearly and give the user a chance to absorb it before going onto the next one. Maybe a box around the right choice or the country name near the flag? Something like that.<p>The design does make me want to "get 'em all" and learn them correctly and that little change would help.<p>Kudos on a fantastic first app which is very professional and usable!
Instant bookmark, well done.<p>A nice little exercise when I need to get me head out of the IDE. You should be really proud of this, god, my first site. . .<p>Well, anyway, have a nice day and keep it up!
Pretty cool, love that it keeps track of your score at the bottom. One comment is that the user feedback when answering incorrectly displays the name of the correct country, not the incorrectly guessed country.<p>Example:
Flag is Brazil. Finland is guessed by user. Message to user: "You guessed Brazil incorrectly".
Awesome little project! I went through the US state flags and found that you are using the old Mississippi flag.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Mississippi</a>
Excellent!<p>If this is really a "beginner" project -- you have a very bright future. Kudos!<p>If you care to, it would be great to see your learning approach / experience / git repo / tutorial for building the same or something similar.<p>Idea:<p>Add a "HINT" button that will gradually reveal more info --<p>- turn the globe background towards the said country<p>- highlight the "continent" the country belongs to<p>- highlight the country itself<p>Or:
- or strike-off a few of the incorrect choices<p>Also:
- Correct answers and wrong answers could be highlighted on he globe with green and red colors for countries<p>EDIT: I just noticed that you are already doing the last part (albeit with a temporary red/green circle that vanishes -- instead of a permanent coloring of the country). Wow and great work!
on my 1366 x 768 screen I cannot see the bottow row, only the first - hope it helps<p>here is a screenshot : <a href="https://i.imgur.com/Jx1qyNF.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/Jx1qyNF.png</a> - I'm running MX Linux
I can't use the page on my Samsung S20:<p><i>Your current dimensions are not supported</i><p>It sure looks like it's rendering just fine:<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/zwzyCx6" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/zwzyCx6</a>
This is what I see: <a href="https://0x0.st/oFPu.png" rel="nofollow">https://0x0.st/oFPu.png</a><p>The bottom row gets cropped. Resolution is 1366x768. Let me know if you need additional info.<p>The UI looks great though!
My daughter is a huge fan of flags so we'll be doing a lot of trying this out!<p>Any way you can configure the number of possible answers? I think 10 options is a bit much (as a clueless American).
Neat!<p>It would be nice to have the option to focus on a single content. It's much easier to learn things if you can go back and repeat, but repetition is prohibitive if you have to do the whole world again.<p>As a small comment, I went to click on a flag on mobile to see if I could see it bigger, and the name of the file came up, with the country's two-letter code, giving away the answer. I'd make it so the flag doesn't respond to touch/mouse events.
Wow, that was a real grind to finish, including a lot of test of memory filtering out countries I'd guessed correctly previously.<p>It still took me an incredibly long time, with dozens of wrong guesses for the same flags over and over.<p>I finally finished with Khazakstan, I wish the stats showed how many guesses total, even if I can work it out from the accuracy I suppose.<p>193 world flags
multiple choice
finished in 43:07
42% accuracy
Very nice! I like how the last guessed country is displayed in the map in the back. It's a shame it doesn't pan to that location, because it's often located outside the viewport. It would be useful to have a way to zoom out and view the whole map, because it would teach the user about the country's location as well.<p>It's a fun and well executed project, congrats!
Nice. I thought I was pretty good at country flags, but it turns out I'm not :)<p>For practice, it might be nice to have some filter options where it only shows you flags from a subset of countries, i.e.,<p>- continents
- largest 50 / 100 / 150 / 200 countries by population<p>the latter would be nice because it's hard to remember all the small island nations
Very neat! Can someone explain the json is being rendered? I had no idea json could be rendered as an image?
<a href="https://github.com/billywojcicki/vexillologist/blob/master/world-110m.json">https://github.com/billywojcicki/vexillologist/blob/master/w...</a>
That’s lovely and frustrating. 1) The right answer could be visualized higher on the screen, to reduce eye movement. 2) My 15 minute progress was erased after checking the settings and trying out the options. Argh!
But overall well done on this project!
Slightly Off-topic:<p>Is there any "clustering" of flags into visually similar designs?<p>Telling similar flags apart and correctly naming the country when the other option is presented as choice ... must be harder work and should ideally have more points :)
Oh my gosh - the touch movement of the globe on mobile is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while. I hate smart phones and apps and this is a really good website implementation on mobile.<p>Well done even though the game is super difficult!
Great fun - bravo!<p>One observation from me, using Firefox on a 2019 MacBook Pro: my computer got very warm while playing, and the cooling fans were running much higher than normal. It looks like the page is using a lot of CPU.
Nicely done! 11 mins 4 seconds with 97% accuracy (my apologies to some smaller caribbean and pacific islands for forgetting your flag, and for mixing up whether Indo or Singapore had the crescent moon + stars)
Not bad. I think it could be nice if there was possibility of mode with just more or lesser known flag. Like only countries with > 1 million population or 20 or more percentile of countries by population.
This is really cool! Nice touch with the moving globe behind the question. Maybe create a page showing the flags and their countries the user got wrong, for reviewing purposes?
Does this show a random flag each time? You could use a spaced-repitition algorithm to pick which flag to show based on correct/incorrect previous answers.
Small suggestion to obfuscate image names, because:<p>Right-click on the flag -> Open image in a new tab -> ISO-2 code image file<p>Makes it easier to narrow it down to correct answer.
Fun demo!<p>When you get it wrong, show the correct country name under the flag. Optionally, show the flag of the country you got wrong and your wrong guess underneth.
this is pretty cool.
I think you have a big opportunity here to have an easter egg if you detect someone holding down a number key for over 10 seconds as I did.
Be wary of <a href="https://xkcd.com/787/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/787/</a> … People can get worked up over what is a "real" country, and what the "real" flags are