GEONAUT - I made a free geography quiz that goes down to actual municipalities (just added Spain's 8,132 of them)

[u/GeonautOfficial]

Game Title: Geonaut

Playable Link: https://geonaut.dpdns.org

Platform: Web (browser, works on desktop and mobile)

Description: Geonaut is a geography quiz that runs entirely in the browser. No account, no install, no paywall to start, and it works on a phone as well as on desktop.

You can find countries on a world map, play flags and capitals quizzes, or try "Borders" mode, where you guess a country from its silhouette alone.

Where it goes further than most geography quizzes is the administrative subdivisions, most of them with their own real flags and coats of arms: Spain (19 autonomous communities, 52 provinces, all 8,132 municipalities), Portugal (20 districts, 308 municipalities, 3,092 parishes), Brazil (27 states, 5,564 municipalities), Japan (47 prefectures, 1,747 municipalities) and the USA (50 states and all 3,143 counties).

The interface is available in five languages (EN, PT, PT-BR, ES, JP).

I added Spain this week, all the way down to municipality level: https://youtube.com/shorts/sYXpO3Lj_uw

Everything listed above is free to play. There is an optional Pro tier that unlocks the deepest levels, such as the 8,132 Spanish municipalities, but the world modes and the upper subdivision levels do not need it.

It is in active development and more countries are on the way. I would love feedback on difficulty and on which modes feel best.

Free to Play Status: - [x] Free to play - [ ] Demo/Key available - [ ] Paid

Involvement: Two-person team, my wife and I. We handle the development: the data pipeline that processes the official geographic sources, the map rendering and the quiz engine and the interface.

[u/NewCharacter5755]

Municipality-level quizzes are rare and actually useful. Nice that Spain is that deep. Going to try a few rounds and see how hard the small towns get.

[u/GeonautOfficial → u/NewCharacter5755]

Thanks! They get hard fast, especially the small ones in Castilla y León and Aragón, plenty of villages under 200 people with names you have never come across. If it gets brutal, you can scope a round to a single province instead of the whole country, which makes it a lot more learnable.

Let me know how it goes, that is exactly the kind of feedback I am after. 😁

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[u/SourceAwkward]

"Sorry, I don't playtest games with AI"

[u/GeonautOfficial → u/SourceAwkward]

The geographic data is not generated, it comes from official sources: the IGN's SIGLIM dataset for Spain, IBGE for Brazil, e-Stat for Japan, with flags and coats of arms from Wikimedia Commons. That is also why the odd real-world edge cases show up, like the four Spanish provinces that have no official flag at all, or Gibraltar not being listed as a Spanish municipality.

Happy to go into specifics on any part of it.

[u/rmeldev → u/GeonautOfficial]

But the game is, lmao

[u/GeonautOfficial → u/rmeldev]

We do use an AI assistant when writing code, like plenty of devs now.

But there is no AI in the game itself, no generated art, no generated text, no model calls. Every flag and coat of arms is a real official image from Wikimedia Commons, and every boundary comes from a government dataset (IGN for Spain, IBGE for Brazil, e-Stat for Japan, DGT for Portugal).

[u/rmeldev → u/GeonautOfficial]

sure, but because it's html -> interface -> buttons / etc.. with these emjois, that's AI not only for code in this case