Where Were We turns your camera roll into a where-and-when guessing game
The browser game reads place and date from uploaded photos, turns them into a shareable roll, and deletes that roll after 30 days.
By RuntimeWire Staff · Published
Primary source: Hacker News
Why it matters
Where Were We shows how much game design is hiding in photo metadata people normally treat as a privacy liability. Its success depends on whether the fun of testing friends outweighs the risk of sharing exact places and dates through an open link.
A guessing game built from the photos already on your phone
Where Were We turns a set of personal photos into a shared guessing game built around two questions: where was each picture taken, and when. The site pitches the premise in one line, "Guess where - and when - every photo was taken."…
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