Gameplay wise, I find the feedback loop to be lacking tho. Right now, there's no much feedback other than "You got it wrong, actually, it's X. Anyway, moving on...". This makes it less of an educational game and more like a test.
For me, I'm always close, so revealing neighbor countries on the map along with the answer (especially for small countries) can add a "spaced repetition" element to the game, it help your brain connect the dots and feel more productive and fun
Screenshots: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/maps-usa-n4v
* Show the incorrect guess you just made on the map, even if not close
* Repeat countries that you got wrong within the next 10 turns, to learn by repetition
I really like travle.earth: https://travle.earth/challenge/
These things are always slightly arbitrary, e.g. why include Taiwan but not, say, Somaliland (both are unrecognised by most other states but de facto independent).
Considering how many countries are there in those regions I expect that I should achieve at least 50% but not close to 75%. That's surprisingly bad for an European that thinks to know geography.
And the tiny countries such as the Vatican or the Pacific Island states could be zoomed in.
If I click "Check" without typing anything and then click "Correct" my score goes up.
I believe that’s a feature. If you can’t find the actual answer (or don’t want to) you can just say or think the answer for yourself, then check and honestly choose if you got it right. That way you still get to keep track of your score, without having to input the name every time.
I disagree with any suggestion that makes the game easier. There are a lot of websites with name-that-country games. For people who are pretty good at locating and naming countries, they want to improve their ability, and they need a tougher game to do that.
It would be fun if there were some country factoids or images, probably. But for people who are trying to get really good at locating countries, they probably already do know facts about various countries, so there isn't a lot of value there.
Spaced repetition of mistakes would be valuable. Very few alternatives offer this.
Maybe you could also offer to filter on a population cutoff? I frequently cut off countries with less than 200k population, because I am not that interested in the various island countries.
Here is my very half-assed version I built once upon a time: https://github.com/ruggeri/world-map-game. Yours is a lot better.
Certainly not clear if I should put North Korea or South Korea.
I enjoyed it; I like that you can use this without entering the country name, i.e. do just "Check" -> "Correct"/"Wrong". This is such a fast and rewarding loop, reminds me of flash cards or spaced repetition apps.
The ones you never hear about slip the mind. Sure I can still say Zambia is near South Africa, but which one is Mozambique, which one Botswana, and which one Zambia? Hard
I even had trouble remembering Yemen! Always found that easy for some reason, especially after I remembered that the order is "YO!" (Yemen, then Oman). Again not a country much news comes from
* Typing a few letters then pressing tab closes the dropdown instead of selecting options in the dropdown
* when the text box is selecting, pressing enter does nothing; I need to press tab then enter to submit the answer
The need to click "submit" was my biggest bad UX moment
https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/how-many-countries-can-you-n...
I ran across it years ago and decided to use it to practice naming countries. For a harder challenge, try this one, which doesn't give you a map:
Process of elimination makes the last 50 pretty easy if you look through the dropdown.
Also possible with Russia + either one of those:
* Ukraine
* Norway
* Poland
* Estonia
* Lithuania
* North Korea
* China
* Latvia
* Finland
* Georgia
* Mongolia
* Kazakhstan
* Belarus
* Azerbaijan
Nice game. Would be great if the gameplay moved on to the next country after a correct or wrong answer, without the need to hit the "Continue" button.
Got 182/195! Hate the Oceania and Caribbean for always making me lose points in quizzes :D
What are these types of web apps that have no backend called?
You still need the CDN, so they're not classically serverless (https://www.sqlite.org/serverless.html)
https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/
https://www.flagle.io/These both seem to be one per day, so you can't sit there and do a whole bunch in a row.
It doesn't help that most of Africa is basically only in the media if there's a disease or war or something.
(129/195)
Keep up the great work.
I couldn’t name 98% of the countries. Realised my geography sucks
I'd suggest on mobile just having a selection of four to eight options that you can touch with your finger.
It's like 195 jpegs, just pre-load them please. I can't continue like this after 3 countries, it's too tedious.