GlobeHoppr
find a route between cities using limited-distance jumps
Details
- External ID
- 49105241
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- GlobeHoppr
- Website domain
- globehoppr.com
- Launched
- July 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1081242532855436
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Description
Hi HN,I built a game where you have to travel from point A to B by hopping through intermediate cities.Each jump has a maximum range, so you can’t simply select the destination. You need to build a route through cities that are close enough together, using as few jumps as possible.It sounds straightforward until you need to cross a part of the world where you only know one or two cities. I’ve found that the game exposes a different kind of geographical knowledge: not just knowing where countries are, but understanding how cities connect across a region.There’s a fixed daily route that everyone can compare, along with unlimited practice games, weekly challenges and multiplayer.I hope people enjoy it and I would love any feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Travel & hospitality
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- find city routes using limited-distance jumps
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes GlobeHoppr is a map-based puzzle game calculating Great-Circle distances (Haversine formula) between cities, easily built with Leaflet/Mapbox and standard client-side graph search algorithms.
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