Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed
Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events. The videos are all created with AI. It’s a pipeline of Flux (images), Kling (video), and mmaudio (audio). The videos aren’t always historically accurate to the last detail. They might incorporate elements of folklore or have details from popular beliefs about the way things looked rather than the latest…
Time Portal – Get dropped into history, guess where you landed launched on March 12, 2025 with 497 votes, #48 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Time Portal is a guessing game that drops players into AI-generated video footage of historical events and asks them to identify when and where they are. Inspired by GeoGuessr, it uses AI tools to create videos combining images, motion, and audio from different time periods. The game targets history enthusiasts and casual players looking for an interactive challenge. While the AI-generated videos prioritize imagination over strict historical accuracy, sometimes blending folklore with documented events, the creator is exploring ways to add more interactive elements for deeper exploration and discovery.
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Hi HN! I love imagining the past, so I made Time Portal, a game where you are dropped into a historical event and see AI video footage from that moment. You have to guess where you are in time and on the map. It’s like GeoGuessr (and heavily inspired by it!) but for historical events. The videos are all created with…
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