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.<p>And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
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.
Great game ! Thanks for sharing.<p>Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year, after we tried to guess the date.
Like others, I wish there was some info about the photos like context, location or source (Wikipedia?).<p>Anyway, here's the complete dataset (funny way to store it):<p><a href="https://www.chronophoto.app/badSneakers.txt" rel="nofollow">https://www.chronophoto.app/badSneakers.txt</a><p>Also, I couldn't resist and cheated a bit to see if you'ld get something special for 5000, but nothing :(<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/aEUMZlJ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/aEUMZlJ</a>
This is very similar to Wikitrivia: <a href="https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/" rel="nofollow">https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/</a> , which asks you to place general historical concepts/events on a timeline.
Reminds me of the Timeline (I think this is the name) card game where every player has a bunch of cards, each of which represents a historical event (e.g., moon landing, or sinking of Titanic, discovery of Radium, etc. Each player has to put down the card in the proper order, with respect to previous cards played. It gets harder as more cards are "on the timeline". Fun game.
This is really fun. My only wish is that I could see some information about the photos in the summary screen. Maybe a photographer credit or link to a Wikipedia?
As my last image in round 5 I got a photo of WWF where Mankind was on top of the hell in a cell. I guessed 1998 because of the meme and got it correct! It was the only image I hit dead on.
I feel I'd be doing better at this game if I was a car person. The only time I've got the year spot on was with a photo of the toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein. The worst I did was guess 1960 on a black and white photo taken almost directly above of some cars on a road, it was actually 1980.<p>Fun but tricky
This is a fun little game. It is interesting to see what the tells are for the time periods. The reliable ones for me so far are military uniforms, cars, and computers. Hairstyles and clothes for some time periods are a give away, but some of those have thrown me off too.
Neat simple little trivia thing, but fun to think about each one and any clues. I got 1969, 1968, 1971, 1906 and 1904, score of 3435. First two were war related, for 1000 and 777. First was b&w but obvious forest clearing mid Vietnam war, so bit of a guess but on the dot, then the second was a color picture of a bus with "Saigon" on it that I underestimated but again, era was clearly Vietnam. Second one showed people in front of cricket scoreboard and with all the batters names and that was pure luck for me because only one possible famous match featured those players! (test #679, Australia v Sydney 1971). Utterly bombed the next, 83 points, I agree with others that I found older photos tougher. Guess 1923, way off. Then I could guess at the final based on the period late 1800s/early 1900s dress at 1910 which was good for 575.<p>Anyway, fun in terms of trying different strategies and it making one focus on the details whereas normally with photographs it's easy to just sort of look at it more abstractly without really <i>thinking</i> about it. Could be a neat party game even as-is, but I also agree with a sibling poster that it'd be easy to expand a touch to favor that (allow having n different guesses each with different colors, so everyone can take a shot for each image for some light competition maybe?).
At least one of the photos is mislabeled.<p>This one[0] shows time square with an ad for a UFC fight that happens in 2009, but it's labelled as 2007.<p>[0]:<a href="https://i.imgur.com/9wJZhI0.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/9wJZhI0.png</a>
First two games I tried I did pretty well on (~3000 score?), then had some shockers (at least 2 or 3 I'd need some convincing on, photos dated in the 30s that were in full high resolution colour?), then got lucky with 3 photos clearly in the early 1900s, one with a cinema listing a film I knew the release year for and one with a somewhat iconic pre-war coca cola ad that I managed to pick the exact year for, scored just over 4400 (I guess 5k's the max?).
Willing to bet a suitably trained AI would whoop any human's ass though, even ensuring none of the photos were explicitly part of the training data.
This is very fun, but I'm wondering why you haven't included source or some context for the photos? Also, you've disabled right click so reverse image searching them is painful.
So fun! Have some friends courious about culture and history that will love this.<p>I think the UX can improve a bit:<p>- Would like that after a submit show both the correct date and the player guess, now only shows the correct date on screen (and the guess in the slider but not with numbers, just a visual gap)<p>- The slider is a bit hard to interact on phones.
My scores are getting progressively better and I’ve reached 4481 by the 5th game!<p>I guessed better with photos that had telling elements such as hair styles, clothing, cars, beards - and preferably more than one instance of them. Bigger samples got to better results.<p>Fun game overall. OP, thanks for sharing the link.
Very fun, almost wish there were less overt cultural clues though. I got 3912 on the first go but it was mostly because I recognized Bowie and Le Corbusier, and got a theater marquee with Happy Gilmore playing.<p>I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing styles and car models more.
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.<p>Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are very hard to place in an exact year.
It’s incredible to see how quickly things changed ~1910-1930 in terms of infrastructure and technology. You’re going from horses and cobblestone to almost modern cars and pavement, within just 20 years or so.
A good game for kids to show them how to recognize different eras. Many clues in each pic, including the colors that are representative of the film/tech used.
I recently been going through all of my family photos. A lot of them are scanned and undated.
I’ve been looking for some kind of machine learning library that will allow me to automatically date them. Approximates are fine, but an algorithm would do better than I would.
Even just grouping photos of similar film stock and scene would be useful as they’re all completely jumbled.
Does anyone know if there’s anything like that?
So simple, yet a lot of fun!<p>2,889 on my first round, 4,4xx on my second. It's fun zooming in and looking for cars, logos, and clothing style for hints. It's also neat to see, say, a road with cars from Model T style through to swoopy 1930s sedans. Contrast that with most historical movies where, if it's set in 1955, every car is from 1950 - 1957.
Ooh I got the high score it seems! On the first try! First three I did exceptionally well:<p>I said 1942
Photo was taken in 1943
924 points<p>I said 1925
Photo was taken in 1927
849 points<p>I said 1985
Photo was taken in 1986
924 points<p>I said 1957
Photo was taken in 1942
117 points<p>I said 1931
Photo was taken in 1923
453 points<p>NYEH NYEH!<p>Final Total: 3267
High Score: 3267
I'd love to see trends and stats on the photos across regions and collaboratively filtered (e.g., someone who accurately predicts photo XX is more likely to accurately predict photo YY).<p>Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
Nice, I always thought I’m pretty good in guessing the production years of movies, photos, and music, so this game is a lot of fun for me.<p>My first try gave me a score of 4125. I’m curious if I can replicate that result or if I just got lucky!<p>Edit: Nope… second try: 2728<p>Edit: 3rd round: 3823
I got a 1976 and a 1992 correct on my only attempt. What are the odds of that? You can narrow a picture down to roughly a 20 yr span. Is that 1 in 400 for just those two? Worst case would be 100 x 100?
This reminds me of some TV show games here in Sweden. :)<p>Got a perfect 1000 points on a pretty gruesome WW2 photo with jews around a train. Sort of a pyrrhic victory there... :|<p>~2200 on my first try, a lot obviously thanks to That Photo.
Love it! Nice job.<p>It would be nice to have a link with more information about the single photos, at least the exact time and place where it was shot, i can then look for the related events myself.
I came back to play again after 10 hours and noticed some of the 1950's photos are fake colored and fooled me. I think those photos make this game less authentic.
Trying to use this on mobile sure is frustrating. I pinch zoom to look at the photo and somehow I end up changing photos when I zoom back out to click the buttons.
Awesome.<p>The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on the nose. That heartened me.<p>After 3 rounds my high score was 3154
Would be interesting if all pictures were black and white, irrespective of when they were taken.<p>Or the other way round, have some AI colorize the older pictures.
It's a shame, but its privacy policy[1] is pretty clearly contravening the GDPR. There's a link on the top of the privacy page which seems to be supposed to show you a consent modal, but it doesn't work on my Chromebook, and their claimed justifications for using the user's data are clearly not actually justified.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.chronophoto.app/privacy.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.chronophoto.app/privacy.html</a>