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by OisinMoran 1690 days ago
This is great Carl! Glad I follow you on Twitter as I missed this on HN.

I too have really wanted something like this for a long time (have some ideas about extra difficult parts like learning to draw the outline of a country) and really enjoyed playing it! I just did one round and got to a score of 123 but had a wonderful time. Well done on the great game!

A few suggestions: 1. This is mentioned already and I see you're aware, but it can be very hard to find somewhere like British Indian Ocean Territory 2. The dropdown options seems to be correct on the default option a good bit more than you would expect by chance. 3. The app doesn't seem to keep a long term history of ones I've seen, so got shown some—Comoros and Papau New Guinea were particular offenders for me 4. Sometimes I think you can cheat using the hover tooltips? 5. Dropdown options are sometimes pretty easy as there is only one option that you have actually encountered. 6. The flag dropdown could be bigger—some flags are hard to distinguish when they're small

And the final suggestion that is (presumably, though I could be wrong) out of your control: There are too many Guineas! C'mon planet earth, get creative.

I also did really enjoy hunting for the small (but not too small) islands and think that will lodge them better in my brain! And thanks again for making and sharing your game—really appreciate it and I learned a lot!! :) Think I'll be coming back for more!