This is great. I'm a big fan of anything that makes memorization and learning fun and iterative.
Is it appropriate if I share one of my own creations?
https://ablakey.github.io/state-machine/index.html
The State Machine is a little geography game I made that I think can be addictive due to its simplicity.
The “back” function seem broken on mobile. Also, it’s not a fun learning experience if you don’t get the correct answer when you get something wrong.
It’s also not “unlucky” to be wrong, don’t patronise your users.
Neat! Happy it works on mobile web. FYI, there’s a short pause after getting a wrong answer that almost seems like the app is waiting for me to try again. Sadly if I tap during that moment, the ui updates and then I get the next one wrong too. Maybe hide or grey out the answers once you get a question wrong? Or as a sibling comment said, just show the extra info right or wrong. Thanks for sharing!
Looks pretty and feels good :-)
Reminds me of the 'Ultimate Geography' decks for Anki [1].
Would love to see some kind of a multiplayer version.
Breaks the back-button.
Would be kinda nicer if it didn't store so much data in the URLs.
Nice!
I like the idea and design
Two things that bugged me:
1. I'd like a fast mode, where you just get immediate feedback on the answer (with correct answer displayed) and then onto next question immediately without showing the country info bit
2. who's flag -> whose flag (or "which country's flag is this")
This is cool. One nit: The "read more about" button isn't a button, but a clickable div. So it doesn't look like a clickable element to Vimium, screen readers, etc.
Otherwise, good job.
I thin you should gather people's mistakes for each question and present correct answer together with some of the most mistaken ones.
I got 6/7 capitals right (7th on second try) just by eliminating insane sounding ones and without actually being able to name the capital of any country I was asked about.
Just a simple game I made to keep myself occupied on flights and on the metro. Still very much a WIP.
I think the 'some info' page should be shown after every answer, especially on answers that were marked as incorrect. How will I ever learn if it doesn't tell me what the right answer is? Other than that, nice work!
Looking at the URL: https://geogee.me/-ze-a1-ah-za-a2-xa4-zg-aa-zg-a4-zg-ab-zg-a..., it seems that the answer is always the last city name mentioned in the URL, so you could cheat at this pretty easily
Love it. Especially like that it's actually difficult. I used to think I'm good at geography, but after getting just 4/7 on the capital cities quiz, maybe I'm not so hot after all.
I too was annoyed by the broke back button. But that's a great game. I enjoyed the chance to get it right by the end of the quiz and the educational content after each question.
Just as a heads up since I don't see it mentioned in the comments yet, I got a description of Palestine for Peru, apart from the hiccup it's definitely a lot of fun
Not sure if the "Maps of X" games are titled appropriately. They should be called "Shapes of X". Even after learning shapes of various countries, I don't learn where they are on a map, though I can recognize them by searching a map and eventually identifying them by their shape. Maybe in the info section after you guess it right, you can show a map and show the country you just identified highlighted on the map.
Another good "countries of the world game" which is more based on maps is: http://click-that-hood.com/
Especially the Africa variant: http://www.youdontknowafrica.com/
When asked what country boarders France only Switzerland is marked as correct, picking Spain is marked as incorrect.
Bugs:
1. spelling error: Who's flag → Whose flag
2. Nepal's flag shows a white background, it needs to be transparent!
3. There's too much artificial delay, eliminate it to vastly improve the UX. Compare with your competitors; in the time it takes to complete only seven quiz questions on geogee I can tear through dozens of them on kgeography v0.9.
Nice work. What's your stack and did you do the site design yourself? It's quite nice.
Quick comment.
I got 3 incorrect questions on population wrong.
In the "try again" mode at the end, I couldn't actually remember which ones I answered incorrectly for each question.
So it might help to indicate which answers you already got wrong in that phase.
I got a question about the Chinese flag. It being black stars for some reason, I thought it's another country and guessed wrong three times. Check your flags, something seems to be wrong with the colors.
I made something similiar, but it is not nice looking like this :/
Found a bug: https://imgur.com/a/mVVi5a8
Very cool though! :-)
I don't see the point of this except it is open-source. Take a look regarding how you load the SVG as well.
Nice.. sort of like Sporcle in style.
It keeps adding to the URL with every answer... will it eventually crash from that?
featured requested - want list of countries which offer work visa(permits)
Is it open source? Would love to contribute other languages (I am Dutch)
Whenever I select an answer I get thrown back to the homepage.
Do you know why?
This is brilliant.
This is really beautiful. And it even made me think about how sad it is to know nothing about so many small, "unimportant" countries. So I bookmarked it, and thanks.
Also thank you for making something that is not yet another app that didn't have to be one. Making a mobile friendly site that looks great on desktop is certainly possible, and that's the side we should err on IMO.
As someone who is kind of awful at geography I think this is pretty great. Kind of a Duo Lingo for countries of the world.
However, I found the population ones frustrating because there were multiple answers kind of in the same ballpark. For example, I think it makes sense to teach people a country of 20 million vs a country of 100 million but 57,100,000 vs 57,200,000 is a bit of a trick question to me.
Also, when I did get questions wrong I found the app very unhelpful to correct me. As others have stated, those info boxes are much more useful after a wrong answer than a right one. Most of the ones I got wrong was a guessing game to randomly pick something.