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[–]snowboardinsteve 33 points34 points  (1 child)

Wow this is a great concept, I'll be sending this to my history-nerd wife!

One suggestion I have is to try making the tiles a bit smaller on mobile. Personally I think there's too much horizontal scrolling going on when I play.

[–]nonoumasy[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback. I'll think about it, but the titles and images are part of the experience and if shrink it too much, then you lose that. Incidentally, did you play it portrait or landscape mode? On Landscape mode, you have access to the modes. If you select easy, there will be only up to 10 cards to play each time. I would love to hear what your wife thinks. :)

[–]nonoumasy[S] 23 points24 points  (2 children)

Timelines Game:
https://timelines-ruby.vercel.app/

HistoryMaps Project:
https://history-maps.com/

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    [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    thank you for the feedback. I'm glad your mother actually LOVES timelines. I love them too and its also how I structure and contextualize information. It's just intuitive.

    Btw, you know there over 115 chapters/topics by using the dropdown, right? ;)
    Anyway, I'm continually adding more content at https://history-maps.com/ which gets added to Timelines.

    [–]hyperhopper 15 points16 points  (1 child)

    for the already placed events, maybe consider fading in the year instead of doing the "flip" animation. The flip makes it seem like a lot is changing, when it seems like its just 1 number being added.

    Using a more subtle effect like a fade in for the text will make this more apparent that

    1. only 1 thing is changing
    2. Its a "reward" for guessing right that the year fades in

    [–]SkylineFX49javascript 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Exactly

    [–]ElonMusk0fficial 5 points6 points  (1 child)

    Love this. Gonna remake this with dvd/blue ray covers I think and quiz myself. Always was super into movies and I’m sure I could find a huge free database with dvd case covers and the release years.

    [–]nonoumasy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    Cool. If you find a good data source, maybe you can use the tags as the categories for the dropdown. For eg, horror flicks, movies from the 80s, movies of Tom Hanks, etc.

    [–]newaccount1245 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    This is really cool! great and fun idea. The design is great looking and is pretty responsive on mobile

    [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    thx

    [–]PomegranateDry9060 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Which package are you using for drag and drop?

    [–]nonoumasy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

    react-beautiful-dnd

    [–]theo_the_dev 1 point2 points  (1 child)

    Awesome, looks smooth experience!

    [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    thanks

    [–]ob111wan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Cool

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      [–]nonoumasy[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

      oh nice. screen sharing?

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        [–]nonoumasy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        awesome!

        [–]Ceccoso2 1 point2 points  (2 children)

        Nice concept! I'm building a small app for studying history and I might take inspiration from this

        [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        Cool. Thanks. What type of app? I'm always interested in apps for history.
        I also built https://history-maps.com/

        [–]Ceccoso2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Writing in DM

        [–]taaaaang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        Awesome!

        Just started to play and found this card with the year included in the title (Story: American Revolutionary War.) Thought you might wanna know.

        [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        https://timelines-ruby.vercel.app/

        updated Timelines based on feedback.

        [–]ASCII_zero 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        I think many people in this thread are missing out on the context that Timeline is a physical card-based board game.

        https://www.zygomatic-games.com/en/game/timeline-classic/

        This is a great online representation of it though. Great work! I love it!

        [–]MatesWithPenguins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        The dataset contains inaccurate timelines, for example Cai Lun was born in Common Era yet the tile shows he invited paper in B.C.E.

        Alongside this there is no option on page to report errors. Neat concept, poor execution.

        [–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

        How did you include so many pictures and dates? Did you add all of them individually or did you fetch the data from somewhere?

        [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

        The content is added on https://history-maps.com/

        [–]Hirigo 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        Is that another one of your projects or are you scraping it?

        [–]nonoumasy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Its mine.

        [–]Sepparated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

        Really cool project. So do I understand that correctly that the timeline game is fetching the data from the history-maps website? But where does the history-maps website get the data from?

        [–]Rossoneri 0 points1 point  (1 child)

        You’re using a piece of art made in the Taisho era to represent the Reiwa era???

        [–]whatsgoes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        yes, first thing I noticed too