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Show HN: Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed

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497 points samplank2 | 6 comments | 12 Mar 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.554s | source | bottom

Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events.

The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest academic research on how they looked.

I’m thinking a lot about how to make the game more interactive. One thing that makes Geoguessr so fun for me is that you can move infinitely and always find more details to help you pinpoint the location. I want Time Portal to have a similar quality. I have a few ideas to try soon that will hopefully make the game more interactive and infinite.

1. dartos ◴[12 Mar 25 22:20 UTC] No.43348270[source]▶
I was excited by the title until I saw it was all AI :(

It would’ve been cool to collect actual images from history. I’m sure there are 1000s of public domain images that could be used.

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3. MangoTec ◴[12 Mar 25 23:37 UTC] No.43348862[source]▶
https://timeguessr.com/ is basically that
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4. ks2048 ◴[13 Mar 25 00:05 UTC] No.43349044[source]▶
This was the link I was looking for. I like this more than the AI version.
5. doublejallday ◴[13 Mar 25 02:44 UTC] No.43349919[source]▶
I know, right?! All those amazing photos from ancient Egypt are some of my favourites. Especially selfies with Amun-Ra and Amunet...
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6. dartos ◴[13 Mar 25 14:02 UTC] No.43353466[source]▶
The AI photos aren’t from that era either… they don’t show accurate depictions of life from that time.

They literally can’t. There’s no photographs…

What’s the point? You’re just guessing at the prompt used to generate the photo.

That might be more interesting, actually. AI photo game where you need to guess the prompt.