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I made a similar but uglier little party game https://geo-dude.com for my kids. Supports up to 4 players
For St Lucia, for instance, the closest visible country was (I think) Puerto Rico. I clicked on it, and then it showed me where St Lucia was in the middle of the black ocean. As far as I could tell, even zooming in, there was morning to click on there.
Same thing happened with Micronesia. There are very few islands in the Pacific visible.
Mind if I ask which mode were you playing? Was it "Find a country" or "Guess a country"? It might be due to the countries being too small. I maintain a separate small countries list [1] from the bigger ones [2]
[1] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data...
[2] https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/public/data...
I didn't come up with a good way to show small countries so it is the way it is. Would love to hear suggestion though!
I just turned the repo public for your reference.
Country list at https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/server/coun...
Picking a question from a continent is shuffle and then pick question per round, so "pick without replacement" https://github.com/kmcheung12/geo-dude/blob/main/server/inde...
Disclaimer, used a lot of AI so I didn't read every line of code
"all countries" doesn't really show all countries. It seems all countries might be in the pool, but there is no weighted randomness, so you end up getting the same flags, and only a few new ones.
Forcing all flags to be in the same aspect ratio really makes the flags look strange, or rather, not how they really are. This also makes things like Monaco/Indonesia identification more difficult, and flags with horizontal stripes to look strange (Sudan, Cuba, etc).
Some flags seem to look odd or broken? Such as Ecuador which looks like a kid drew it and is pretty broken. Some flags have a weird border around them too, as if they haven't been placed or rendered correctly.
I'm not sure if having a list of flags just below the quiz helps the integrity of it. I'm also not sure of all the AI generated stuff. Are people really mixing up Morroco and Veitnam? Getting to that page again is difficult and unclear, you need to click the flag from the country page, or get it wrong in a quiz. I feel it's a little confusing to have separate pages describing the country and flag. Especially considering its a website about flags.
A while ago I practiced every day on an android app, and the pleasure I got when I finally got 196/196 was extremely satisfying.
I'd also like to recommend that flags of different aspect ratios be shown correctly.
Same with the Nordic flags, which have similar geometry but different colors.
Nicely curated.
Nepal with it's extraordinary format seems to be represented ok.
Btw, really smooth. It works really well!