I feel like this would work even better as a daily game like Wordle with the same 5 pics for everyone to play so you can (lightly) compete with friends.
And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
The trivia thing was asked for at reddit too, but i looked into the file storage of the server and it seems that the photos are just plainly stolen from all over the internet with file names like chronophoto.app/years/1963/ap630629032-02fcaf4ca7736109b998d760283a3a9ba7bceda7-s900-c85.webp
or
chronophoto.app/years/2017/ed-jones-north-korea-top-100-photos-2017.jpg
No credit is given anywhere too. This is probably illegal and the author will get in a lot of trouble if he does not do something about that soon.
People like to compete: seeing the same questions makes the scores comparable. Having common context of the same "daily pics" also creates opportunities for discussion & debate which don't exist otherwise.
Trickling out synchronized games may create more durable entertainment, because otherwise many tend to play intensely until they bore of it, considering it "done" – never checking back.
Returning back each day may generate more 'fun' per game, as the satiation of repeated play is minimized. It also cultivates a reliable audience for incremental changes/experiments that take time to implement & evaluate – assiting iterative improvement.
Simple and fun game. I just wish the score was more forgiving the older the photo was. It’s a lot harder to tell 1905 and 1910 apart than 2015 and 2020, from the perspective of 2023.
Actually I've been doing consistently worse in the years I lived through than the rest of the timeline. Apparently the older I get the more styles blur together. I tend to estimate ~5 years too early for the 1980-2000, and ~10 years too early for 2010 to present.
Changes in consumer-grade photo quality between 70s/80s/90s are actually quite visible if you've looked at many of them. It's subtle, but e.g. newer ones have better range in brightness, i.e. less overly bright or dark areas in high-contrast images.
It's tricky. I got one that was full bright standard colour... from 1912. Normal contrast and hue and saturation, no noise. I assume recoloured later?
There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.
Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year, after we tried to guess the date.
Reminds me of the Timeline (I think this is the name) card game where every player has a bunch of cards, each of which represents a historical event (e.g., moon landing, or sinking of Titanic, discovery of Radium, etc. Each player has to put down the card in the proper order, with respect to previous cards played. It gets harder as more cards are "on the timeline". Fun game.
Yeah, it's called Timeline. At work we took Armenian colleagues to a pub which had it available. It was funny to play with the Polish localization, they understood more than we assumed (Armenians know Russian). But the replay value is dubious. The guy who won turned out to have this game at home. Kinda cheating ;)
This is really fun. My only wish is that I could see some information about the photos in the summary screen. Maybe a photographer credit or link to a Wikipedia?
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And at the end, you could get some trivia for each of the photos
probably worst thing that will happen is some kind of cease and desist.
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I ask because I disagree. Visuals are far more infinite than guessing a 5 letter word with restricted choices. Chrono and Wordle are not comparable.
Trickling out synchronized games may create more durable entertainment, because otherwise many tend to play intensely until they bore of it, considering it "done" – never checking back.
Returning back each day may generate more 'fun' per game, as the satiation of repeated play is minimized. It also cultivates a reliable audience for incremental changes/experiments that take time to implement & evaluate – assiting iterative improvement.
https://framed.wtf/
it was only obvious it was 80s or 90s if something silly was going on.
my top score is 2900 right now
I think styles changed a lot from 1900—1970. After that, things are pretty hard to distinguish; retroactive clothing styles muddyvthe waters.
Thought often the pictures are not a great representation of the time they convey :/
There are bw photos from 70s and colour photos from 50s. Contrast and noise and hue can give clues, but nothing stops a photographer from using old film in new times. I ended up going for cars and styles more when possible.
Color capable film has been around since the late 19th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_film_systems
Small suggestion: it would be great to get some information about the picture (location, context, people) in addition to the year, after we tried to guess the date.
Anyway, here's the complete dataset (funny way to store it):
https://www.chronophoto.app/badSneakers.txt
Also, I couldn't resist and cheated a bit to see if you'ld get something special for 5000, but nothing :(
https://imgur.com/a/aEUMZlJ
This link (grabbed from another thread here) is similar.
https://wikitrivia.tomjwatson.com/