Geosense: an online world geography game

February 28, 2007 8:39 AM

Geosense: an online world geography game. Play alone or with others using a guest account or your own unique ID.
posted by Burhanistan (36 comments total)

Gamefilter. I think we've seen this before. It's a fun game, though.

My main complaint is that it gets very repetitive after awhile. It needs more cities.
posted by jeffamaphone at 8:52 AM on February 28, 2007

Wow. I totally glossed over this post the first time I read the front page.

I blame the title that starts with a G and an O and ends with a SE. Gotta keep your guard up, you know?
posted by nebulawindphone at 9:07 AM on February 28, 2007

Fun! Too bad there's no way to access you past scoers. Is there?
posted by goethean at 9:16 AM on February 28, 2007

Nice little geography game.
However, I get a little honked-off that you get penalized for not hitting exactly the location of Palermo on the teeny-tiny image of Sicily. Jeez.
posted by Thorzdad at 9:28 AM on February 28, 2007

phaedon's rubbish at this, I kicked his ass twice, then he quit during our third game.. having clicked Spain for Nantes, France..
posted by imperium at 9:28 AM on February 28, 2007

oh man. i admit i even called you out on it before we even started, how the fuck am i supposed to know where "archangel, russia" is?

by the way, after i picked "nantes, frances" in spain i totally quit. what am i supposed to do, keep playing?
posted by phaedon at 9:33 AM on February 28, 2007

oh wait, you even called me out on the nantes thing jesus... talk about starting off with a pseudonym next time
posted by phaedon at 9:33 AM on February 28, 2007

This is good. I like the city aspect. All the others ones I have dacked with are clink on the country only.
posted by YoBananaBoy at 9:34 AM on February 28, 2007

this actually pisses me off. i was runner up in my city geography bee in 6th grade. my, how the tide has turned.
posted by phaedon at 9:37 AM on February 28, 2007

man, I didn't mean to be so harsh, but you were all like, "come on mefi bitches, show me what ya got".
posted by imperium at 9:44 AM on February 28, 2007

I'm unbelievably terrible at this. But I found Prague and Alice Springs! It's sad how this cheers me up after totally failing to locate Abidjan, anything in South America and Saudi Arabia.
posted by mygothlaundry at 9:45 AM on February 28, 2007

I certainly established that I have a deep and pervasive ignorance of Brazilian geography.
posted by imperium at 9:46 AM on February 28, 2007

I have been clicking around for ages and still can't find Burhanistan :p
posted by Abiezer at 9:47 AM on February 28, 2007

im apparently one of those american idiots they talk about in the news (trolling site for rematch)
posted by phaedon at 9:49 AM on February 28, 2007

Ok, Abiezer...it's on!
posted by Burhanistan at 9:49 AM on February 28, 2007

Phaedon, I'm sorry, but I believe I just pwned you. As guest421.
posted by chinston at 10:01 AM on February 28, 2007

Yeah, me too. It's like we're all pulling a World Geography train on Phaedon.
posted by Mach3avelli at 10:31 AM on February 28, 2007

Wait, if I claimed I'd kicked phaedon's ass too, could anyone prove me wrong?

(Er, shit, you didn't hear me ask that...)
posted by nebulawindphone at 11:42 AM on February 28, 2007

Proving things? On the internets? HOW DARE YOU.
posted by jeffamaphone at 12:07 PM on February 28, 2007

My scores improved significantly once I realized that I got more points the faster I clicked.
posted by chinston at 12:11 PM on February 28, 2007

I keeping getting tripped up by random cities in Russia. That, and Africa. There are a shit ton of countries on the western coast.
posted by ztdavis at 12:24 PM on February 28, 2007

i will remember the beatdown i took today
posted by phaedon at 12:56 PM on February 28, 2007

Come on then, let's be avin' you. We should make this like a regular MeFi activity. Until we get bored of it. Say, until tomorrow.
posted by imperium at 1:01 PM on February 28, 2007

there goes any chance of having a productive afternoon...
posted by honeyx at 1:18 PM on February 28, 2007

Anywhere in Brazil, Canada or Russia and I'm totally screwed.
posted by afx237vi at 1:27 PM on February 28, 2007

How could you not know where Archangel is? The allies used it as a port of entry during WWII!

Of course, I only know that because Guy Maddin made a crazy film about the subject.
posted by Astro Zombie at 1:42 PM on February 28, 2007

I just got "UNITEDSTATES, Portland." Which one?!

They wanted the one in Oregon.
posted by chiababe at 3:12 PM on February 28, 2007

Good one. It's like flashcards. I'm going to keep it so I can get smrter.
posted by Trochanter at 3:23 PM on February 28, 2007

(I'm content just to get the countries.)
posted by Trochanter at 3:28 PM on February 28, 2007

chaibabe- nobody cares about the one in Maine. It's the largest city there but what has Maine ever done for us? (Oregon at least has fun things like attempted gay marriage and a assisted suicide law.)
posted by Hactar at 3:44 PM on February 28, 2007

Kill all novelty cursors. Kill them dead.
posted by katillathehun at 4:07 PM on February 28, 2007

you... get... more... points... for clicking... faster?
posted by phaedon at 5:28 PM on February 28, 2007

bitches.
posted by phaedon at 5:29 PM on February 28, 2007

Oh, and Abiezer: just because you can't find Burhanistan on a map doesn't mean it isn't there in Central Asia. A Stalin-era plot was devised to erase it from maps, atlases, and the collective consciousness at large (though it still simmers back somewhere in the collective unconsciousness- those KGB goons tried but couldn't get it out of there). We're here so come visit and I'll make you some tea and sell you a vintage Soviet ICBM.
posted by Burhanistan at 6:12 PM on February 28, 2007 [1 favorite]

i like how they put Oakland CA roughly in the middle of hte Golden Gate Bridge. . . .
posted by FlyingMonkey at 8:30 PM on February 28, 2007

any ideas where the Lost island is?
posted by phaedon at 10:14 PM on February 28, 2007