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

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497 points samplank2 | 1 comments | 12 Mar 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.417s | 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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ButOneDuck ◴[13 Mar 25 02:20 UTC] No.43349799[source]▶
I'm no history buff, so i found it quite fun just as a game. the system is quite easy to cheese by simply going back and re-guessing once you have the answer, was really enjoying the scoring aspect until I figured out how simple it was to get close to 100%. Understandable cause its still a PoC and very much a beta, but thought I'd give you the heads up.
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1. samplank2 ◴[13 Mar 25 02:41 UTC] No.43349906[source]▶
Glad you liked it. Yeah, still no score tracking on the web game and it runs on the honor system. If you get the iOS app, you can keep track of your scores and it will just save the score the first time you play.