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Posted by mtlduo 2 days ago

Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do(wonderhop.io)
Hello HN!

Wonderhop is a small browser game with no account needed to play, everyday there are 4 rounds of 7 quesitons like "Name a food that a lot of people hate" The goal depends on the mode: Either gives the answer most people would give, the one no one would give, the oldest answer or the most recent one and there's a leaderboard for the day.

The most interesting part of the project was understanding answers that are typed freely and in 10 languages, there was some typos, plurals, nickname, or even duplicate way of sayign the same thing. We needed AI judge that checks it really existes conencted to some API like wikipedia to judge the veracity of each answer really quickly (less than 1s on average)

The percentage starts from an estimate but move really fast with the answers of real players. If the list missed a good answer, it gets added as soon as a few different players give it.

(There are also a lot of secrets and pop culture references added in the game :) )

A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-made

We'd love to know if the goal is clear from the very first question while playing and were any good answers rejected unfairly

We are a couple of developers from Montreal that like guessing games so we built this in about two month.

Thanks a lot!

40 points | 48 commentspage 2
bonsai_bar 3 hours ago|
That was a lot of fun! Thank you:)
mtlduo 2 hours ago|
Glad you had fun, thanks for trying it!!
wccrawford 4 hours ago||
Are there no accounts? Can I not continue playing on a different PC?
cesarvarela 5 hours ago||
Very nice visual and sound experience, congrats!
mtlduo 4 hours ago|
Thanks a lot!! glad you enjoyed it :)
elektor 5 hours ago||
I'm sorry but is this not just another AI remake of a very common game type?

I recall playing an identical game a few months ago, also on the HN front page.

https://www.krillion.org/

burkaman 1 hour ago||
Yes this is clearly just a minor extension of Krillion, but that one was also AI-generated so it's hard to feel bad for them.
unsnap_biceps 3 hours ago|||
That site just opened a malware page and tried to make phone calls. I had to force kill my browser to get it to stop.
nicholsonpk 2 hours ago||
I think https://krillion.io/ is the original.
mtlduo 5 hours ago||
Thanks you for the feedback, the concept doesn't come from Krillion or from me, there was already a game called Pointless on TV way before that, and Sky is straight up Family Feud, Past and Future are our own concepts And the graphics, even if the code and the implementation were obviously written with AI like 100% of people coding a big project today, they're human made
pavel_lishin 4 hours ago|||
But the Abyss mode looks almost identical to krillion - from the very concept of trying to guess rare answers, to the nautical diving theme, down to the almost-pixel-art style..?

It's incredible to suggest that this wasn't based on either Krillion, or that both games were based on something else.

(To be clear, I'm not accusing you of explicitly lifting the concept - but that's the problem with using AI to generate too much, it'll obviously re-use what it's seen before.)

edit: actually, you say "A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-made" - it's just wildly improbable for the two to look and feel so similar.

rockostrich 3 hours ago|||
The UI and graphics are 100% just a reskin of Krillion...
TechDevar222 3 hours ago||
love it, the sound effects make it feel so immersive
mtlduo 3 hours ago|
thank you!! Sound was a big part of the feel we wanted it's really nice to hear
baud147258 2 days ago||
Most wonderful fact is that 55% of people dream of visiting Paris. Of course living just next to Paris puts a damper to any desire to visit
mtlduo 2 days ago|
I also grew up next to Paris so I completely get it. Once you know it, it's less of a dream. Thanks a lot for your feedback :)
arm32 2 days ago||
I love the visual aesthetic. Fun idea!
mtlduo 2 days ago|
Thank you so much! The pixel art took a lot of iterations, glad it shows!
wccrawford 4 hours ago||
Rarest is terrible. I absolutely know that baked ube is a street food, and way less likely to be guessed than Udon, and yet I'm penalized for nobody else guessing it yet?

I didn't even play latest and oldest, because that's just a guessing game.

unsnap_biceps 3 hours ago|
Oldest is fine and fun. It's oldest in terms of when, not answers. The oldest pyramid for example.

I agree that the rarest wasn't nearly as entertaining or fun. Perhaps that one needs a list to pick from.

Benjaminsen 12 hours ago||
Love the visual style!
mtlduo 9 hours ago|
Thanks a lot! Glad you like it
l3x4ur1n 4 hours ago|
It was fun!
mtlduo 2 hours ago|
Thanks a lot for playing!! :)