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Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

https://detective.wiki/
91•jasonsmiles•3d ago
Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.

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wormpilled•3d ago
This is really cool, recommend people click 'restart' so you can see all the different gamemodes.
diath•5h ago
Really fun, took me over 20 articles before I realized I can just type the letters on my keyboard instead of clicking them one by one with my mouse :^).
chrysoprace•4h ago
Cool game, but when I was doing the map game it gave me the same article about 5 times.

It's also not clear if there's a goal in each game. So far as I can tell it goes on forever.

Edit: both the lock and dial game modes put me into the same dial game mode; I'm going to guess it's a bug. They also seem to be for the same article.

was_a_dev•9m ago
I played the Map mode and got the same page several times, and then the game ended with half my "life" left. It was really fun but I passed a lot of rounds just on memory
snthpy•4h ago
Where in the wiki is Commons Atribution?
citbl•3h ago
This is a very clever idea. I've toyed with the idea of making a multiple site mystery challenge in the past, a bit like a geo game with real world tagging and drop boxes.

Never got around to it, but this is clever.

sroerick•3h ago
This is very cool! I am mildly disappointed that it isn't called Wikipedia Brown. Despite this, great work
higgins•3h ago
What a great design!

How did you design that awesome background!?

Wordsongo•3h ago
should be able to scroll between images on mac not drag
minikomi•2h ago
Hey sometimes the "first letter" in the letter game when it's typed on the tape is in upper case .. kind of a hint :)
akd•2h ago
Very cool - I would like to contact you about this. Do you mind emailing me? My email address is in my profile.
acetofenone•2h ago
What a beautiful idea! Really nice job for the UI
thatgerhard•1h ago
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
addandsubtract•24m ago
Pedía Vikki
shahzaibmushtaq•1h ago
A pure passion project!
mellosouls•1h ago
Great design and work overall, excellent project, congrats!
missingdays•1h ago
I can't play the game because the whole screen flashes in rectangles
alex-moon•29m ago
This is beautifully designed and engaging and potentially a fun way to learn things! Amazing work.

Some things you could add to make it stickier:

1. Have a natural end where you "win" - possibly I just didn't hit this, it's the kind of game I'd play in bed in the morning as long as the play time was similar to Wordle and the other NYT games.

2. Have facts show up when you get something right! Could literally just be the opening sentence from the article and a link to the article. This extra context stimulates curiosity - I'd love to be able to have "Space physics? That doesn't sound like a real thing..." and then have the hat guy pop up and go, "You cracked it chief. Space Physics is the study of high atmosphere plasmas."

EDIT: for comparison, have a look at Metazooa - https://metazooa.com/ - which did this very well.

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