Chronophoto
chronophoto.app
chronophoto.app
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.
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.
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.
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 :(
This link (grabbed from another thread here) is similar.
EDIT: oof, just got the Columbine High School class photo.
It would be more interesting if these popular photos were removed, and guessing would be based only on knowledge about clothing and hair styles, film type, car design, etc.
Great game!
Fun but tricky
Anyway, fun in terms of trying different strategies and it making one focus on the details whereas normally with photographs it's easy to just sort of look at it more abstractly without really thinking about it. Could be a neat party game even as-is, but I also agree with a sibling poster that it'd be easy to expand a touch to favor that (allow having n different guesses each with different colors, so everyone can take a shot for each image for some light competition maybe?).
This one[0] shows time square with an ad for a UFC fight that happens in 2009, but it's labelled as 2007.
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Resolution has never been a problem for early color photos, the actual coloring was, and the expense/difficulty of the process.
This - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Prokudin-Gorsky#/media/... - come from 1910s.
And in 1935-1936 effectively modern color film was mass-released, so starting from late 30s nothing should be surprising.
Try Shift + Right click to bypass this.
Or, help identify features of a photo that definitively place it at certain times, by human perception. That might help tune autogenerated content intended to reflect certain eras to avoid anachronisms, or more strongly hint specific years or vague ranges.
Now, I don't think these are likely motivations for the game – the mere fun of playing seems enough to me. But it seems they could be.
And alternatively, how well a scene matches the audience's clear indicators of era is valuable in entertainment – even moreso than accuracy, in some cases.
Again, I don't think these are likely motivations for this particular system. But in a wide world of many aims, it's within the realm of possibiity that someone might try a system like this for such purposes.
I think the UX can improve a bit:
- Would like that after a submit show both the correct date and the player guess, now only shows the correct date on screen (and the guess in the slider but not with numbers, just a visual gap)
- The slider is a bit hard to interact on phones.
I guessed better with photos that had telling elements such as hair styles, clothing, cars, beards - and preferably more than one instance of them. Bigger samples got to better results.
Fun game overall. OP, thanks for sharing the link.
I enjoyed the pics where you needed to analyze hair/clothing styles and car models more.
Maybe full points for scoring within 5 years? Some photos are very hard to place in an exact year.
2,889 on my first round, 4,4xx on my second. It's fun zooming in and looking for cars, logos, and clothing style for hints. It's also neat to see, say, a road with cars from Model T style through to swoopy 1930s sedans. Contrast that with most historical movies where, if it's set in 1955, every car is from 1950 - 1957.
I said 1942 Photo was taken in 1943 924 points
I said 1925 Photo was taken in 1927 849 points
I said 1985 Photo was taken in 1986 924 points
I said 1957 Photo was taken in 1942 117 points
I said 1931 Photo was taken in 1923 453 points
NYEH NYEH!
Final Total: 3267 High Score: 3267
Also, it's a super curious dataset, photos with year metadata.
My first try gave me a score of 4125. I’m curious if I can replicate that result or if I just got lucky!
Edit: Nope… second try: 2728
Edit: 3rd round: 3823
Got a perfect 1000 points on a pretty gruesome WW2 photo with jews around a train. Sort of a pyrrhic victory there... :|
~2200 on my first try, a lot obviously thanks to That Photo.
It would be nice to have a link with more information about the single photos, at least the exact time and place where it was shot, i can then look for the related events myself.
The first photo I got was some guy in a cartoonish space suit talking with a kid at a festival. I guessed 1966 and got it on the nose. That heartened me.
After 3 rounds my high score was 3154
for (i=1;i<6;i++) console.log(i+' '+Math.round(sessionStorage.getItem("realDate"+i)/29.234));Or the other way round, have some AI colorize the older pictures.
I got 2827 as a score which isn't that great, but I nailed the year perfectly on 2/5. Super interesting!
It's interesting to think about the epochal details our minds use to produce these guesses. Technology like the cars/cameras/phones present (or missing), the fashion styles on the people, the quality/sharpness of the image overall, face masks in post-2019 photos, etc.
You can tell a crowd photo wasn't taken in the last 10 years because nobody's looking at their phones.
PS: No such sharable gold nugget was presented.