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

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497 points samplank2 | 3 comments | 12 Mar 25 20:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.81s | 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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riffraff ◴[13 Mar 25 05:51 UTC] No.43350687[source]▶
Brilliant idea but e.g. I got the conversion of the kingdom of Aksum to Christianity and none of the images resemble reality.

I think this might work better if you fed the LLM some real image and asked it to expand it than by using prompts.

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1. vasco ◴[13 Mar 25 05:57 UTC] No.43350708[source]▶
How would you be able to get real images of the past?
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2. riffraff ◴[14 Mar 25 10:19 UTC] No.43361153[source]▶
archeological objects exist. E.g. This is one of those stone pillars erected by King Ezana

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ezana%27s_Stele

And this is the Obelisk of Axum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Axum

You can see they have nothing to do with what is shown here, which is a weird cross of greek, middle-eastern, and stonehenge.

https://www.eggnog.ai/timeportal/93fb81ef-002c-459d-9726-b14...

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3. vasco ◴[16 Mar 25 20:45 UTC] No.43382132[source]▶
Then it'd get one object right and the rest wrong.