GeoHearo
An audio-based geography guessing game.
When the game begins, a mystery country is chosen at random and you are presented with five radio stations to pan through. As you submit your guesses, the game tells you how close you are and which direction to go. The map is provided as a visual aid; you can hover a country to check its name, and your guessed countries are filled with a color that reflects proximity to the correct answer.
The game relies on your knowledge and challenges your preconceptions about the musical tastes and spoken languages of different countries. It can be used to build familiarity with the countries of the world, where they lie, and what they sound like.
The current iteration of the game is simple and fun. I have ideas for how it could be adapted in different directions to be more meaningful. To emphasize geography education, I would add more informed feedback and tooling. For example, if you guess “France” but the correct answer is “Senegal,” the game could relay that the French language part is correct and highlight other countries that speak French. I can also imagine adapting the project into an interactive component to support others’ academic or artistic work.
- Tools and technologies: Go, Python (Pandas, Jupyter), VueJS, D3, DataMaps, GeoJSON, HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
- Skills showcase: API usage & crawling, spatial analytics, coordinate system manipulation, interactive web app development.