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The circle is a bit large as in larger than a single neighborhood for my city. I feel like the game is useful when it asks you how well you know a single neighb
by TimPC 5y ago
The circle is a bit large as in larger than a single neighborhood for my city. I feel like the game is useful when it asks you how well you know a single neighborhood. It’s less interesting when it asks you how well you know 2.5 neighborhoods.
- rockostrich 5y agoIt's also kinda silly to do streets for something like Manhattan since it's a grid. But landmarks/businesses would work really well in any city.
- petschge 5y agoIn my case it covers three different villages...
- adamlynch 5y agoThanks for the feedback. I'm considering adding difficulty modes or a way to change the radius. I'd rather that people wouldn't get a perfect score too easily though
- et-al 5y agoI think a difference with Wordle is that we're playing different neighborhoods and different streets every day, so a "cheated" perfect score would have little meaning. And I think when people share their Wordle results, it's often a "wow, I lucked out on that guess" or "phew, almost didn't get it". Perhaps the ability to choose the sample area could be based on the zoom level and hidden under a settings cog?
- adamlynch 5y agoFor now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.
- TimPC 5y agoI think it’s more important for the game to be meaningful than difficult. How well do you know a neighborhood is deeply meaningful. How well do you know 2.5 neighborhoods isn’t. I’d strongly recommend sacrificing difficulty for meaning here.
- bfung 5y agoIt’s def a good positive reinforcement to give people a good feeling that they know their own neighborhood. Having the next 1.5 neighborhood is also valuable: if you live so close, it’s not a stretch to go learn the neighboring neighborhood (in fact, why not!?). There maybe a level of “insult” (you don’t really know your ‘hood outside of the 5 streets), but used positively, I think the game is great.
- mathgeek 5y agoThis is relative to the density of where you are playing. The default radius out in rural areas doesn't have enough roads, for example. A customizable radius or geofence sounds appealing.
- adamlynch 5y agoI agree (and what you want out of the game). I wonder is there a "number of streets" which is a better sweet spot / a better default, rather than a radius
- adamlynch 5y agoFor now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%
- BrandoElFollito 5y agoA geofence matching the city limits would be great
- adamlynch 5y agoRight now there's no backend but potentially I could have a leaderboard per geofenced city / town
- nannal 5y agoI want to chime in as well to say I felt the circle was too large, I know districts in cities vary in size a lot but, but the game covered ~6 with mine in the middle. Checking the village I grew up in also covered the edges of three towns around it and a neighboring village.
- adamlynch 5y agoThanks. For now, I've reduced the circle radius by 20%. I plan to make it adjustable in the future.
- SECProto 5y agoI enjoyed it! worked reasonably well for the city I tried. I did have a few nitpicks, but they are mostly datasource related as opposed to anything you can control - the several rounds i played included a pedway system, several walking trails, and a private driveway. Only change I might suggest making is the radius of the pin - getting a 99/100 for being 6m off because the pin didnt go exactly where I thought it was. Or is there any way for the pin to snap to an object?
- adamlynch 5y agoCan you give me the coordinates you played in? I will review the "objects". I can do something with the pin too. Probably not possible to snap though, no. Thanks!
- SECProto 5y ago> Can you give me the coordinates you played in? I will review the "objects". Here's the osm for the pedway object, labelled a footpath. https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11909462 https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11909462 Here's one of the trails: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/511807176 https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/511807176
- kiney 5y agoI think it would be useful to use actual boundries of villages or neighbourhoods instead of circles. Not sure how difficult that is. (the required data is in OSM, at least in germany)
- adamlynch 5y agoThe data is there but it's difficult to make everyone happy. I don't have a backend but if I did, a leaderboard per town would be nice
- bwanab 5y agoAgreed. I live in a densely packed urban neighborhood. There’s no way I know streets that aren’t main streets more than 1/2 mile away. Cool concept though. This would be a nice game at many geographic magnitudes.