Nice, I enjoyed it. Fyi I think you should edit the title to be "Show HN: <title>". This will mean it will be on the /show (https://news.ycombinator.com/show) page.

Nice work! I'd consider ditching the AI art though, it was distracting.

I like it! A quality old school learning game, like we had in the 90s

I’m also a huge history guy so anything that helps people understand history better is great

Was the goal just to make this for yourself and see how it goes?

How accurate are these pictures? I feel like I see ideas like this on HN pretty often and the art always gets things wrong. Like all the same clean armor during the first crusade seems doubtful and two swords on horseback just seems wacky. Two swords like that is dumb normally but also how do you control the horse lmao

Very fun. Would you consider putting years on the timeline to match the events up to? I think from an education perspective it would be a great feature! Nice Work!

Neat! I think with more events (~9) and obscure ones it would be more fun. I also think it would be fun to make it possible to play previous days. Bookmarked.

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

This, as well as the NYT game, are heavily inspired by https://www.timdle.com ?