GeoGuessr

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2023-01-22 from /villagepump/GeoGuessr

• GeoGuessrの4対4チーム戦にいきなり参戦してきた
  • More prep is needed!

2019-05-12

• Google Earth at a random location is displayed.

• Guess where on earth it is.

• https://geoguessr.com/

• I bought the iOS version.

  • Random across the globe free of charge
  • Famous Place, Major Cities, etc., you can pay $360 or buy them with points that you accumulate by playing.

• Personally, I would recommend buying Famous Place with a quick charge.

  • ‘Oh, this is the Louvre!’ It’ll feel like a play like that.

Considerations on Game Structure

• Quiz game with image +α as input and position as output

• Unlike typical quiz shows, the interesting point is that the output is not “words” but “positions”.

  • The distance from the correct location determines the score.
  • A: “Oh, it’s in South America, what is it? In the “word quiz”, B>>A), but in the “location quiz”, C: “Machu Picchu is in India, isn’t it? A’s score is higher than B’s (A>>C).
  • Even if you know that the Leaning Tower of Pisa is in Italy, if you don’t know where Pisa is, you won’t get any points.
  • So it’s interesting to see how “non-linguistic knowledge” grows during repeated play!
    • Pisa is in that part of Italy.”
    • Due to Google Map specifications, the more minor a location is, the more you have to zoom in to see it.
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    • If you know approximately where it is, you can zoom in on that area to find it.
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    • Mont Saint-Michel is in France, but where is it now?
  • Conversely, it is interesting to note that in some cases “positional knowledge is verbalized and stored
    • Where is Machu Picchu?”
    • It’s in South America.”
    • It’s in Peru, not Chile.”
    • It’s in Cusco, Peru.”
    • 
    • It’s in Aguas something, northwest of Cusco.
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    • There it is!”
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• It’s hard to remember where the square monastery is.

• I can’t remember where the semi-circular castle is.

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