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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: 0.436s | 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. SamPatt ◴[13 Mar 25 02:07 UTC] No.43349720[source]▶
Great concept. I'm an avid geoguessr and wikitrivia player, you're definitely onto something here.

I built a prototype version similar to this called PastPort last year, but I like your idea better.

This uses Flux then image to video? Good quality generations, it would be wonderful to see the accuracy of the images improve. I saw you want to make it interactive like moving mode in geoguessr; that would be fantastic. I can imagine a few ways to do both.

I don't believe this is open source - is there a way to contribute to this? One man operation or are you a team?

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2. samplank2 ◴[13 Mar 25 02:52 UTC] No.43349963[source]▶
That's so cool! Yes, Flux then image to video. And agree, definitely focused on improving the image accuracy.

This isn't open source, no. We're a team of two through our company Eggnog AI. That said, happy to talk some time if you're interested!