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497 points samplank2 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.236s | source

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.

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Mobius01 ◴[] No.43347994[source]
I love the concept! A really compelling game , especially for history nerds like me. Two thoughts:

1. The AI imagery is often misaligned with the actual answer, with some anachronistic elements.

2. The scoring seems harsh. I got a couple of answers within 50km and/or 10 years in the time scale but was still severely penalized.

Good luck with this, I will definitely watch your progress and pass it along

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1. samplank2 ◴[] No.43348422[source]
Thank you! Appreciate the kind words and the feedback. Definitely need to improve on both fronts!