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

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497 points samplank2 | 2 comments | 12 Mar 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.512s | 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.

1. snovymgodym ◴[13 Mar 25 02:06 UTC] No.43349716[source]▶
I guess the idea is cool, but this is more like "try and guess which prompt generated this slop".

The thing that makes Geoguessr cool is that it drops you into a real place.

This is like if Geoguessr showed you the output from "Midjourney, show me China".

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2. samplank2 ◴[13 Mar 25 02:56 UTC] No.43349992[source]▶
I guess you could see it that way. The is no footage from most of history, so AI gives us a new way to interact with those events in the past. But it will never be perfect, because we'll never have the ground truth to compare it to.