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Yes, pretty much. There are some harvest minigames for collecting.
You also find various events. With the ingredients you brew potions, sell them and then spend the money you earn :)
Ya gonna open source it and put it on fdroid?
No plans yet, I might look into that in the future.
I'd rather focus on bringing it to iOS, having a few people who already asked for it. Not an Apple fan, so still thinking about getting an old used iPhone for testing..
You can probably emulate iOS in xcode but you are unlikely to build anything for it without MacOS and xcode. Yeah, lovely environment.
Yes, you need a Mac for XCode (can't emulate that). Then you also need to pay Apple $99 a year, even if you just want to release a free app.
I could simulate an iPhone for testing, but for a GPS game this would be messy. Even on Android I'm still struggling a bit with getting GPS to work reliably. You pretty much need a real phone to test that :-/
Oh right, forgot the GPS, welp.
Xcode actually has pretty good gps emulation, you can set routes for it to walk.
What tech is this using? Is it a html5 game?
Oh, it's Godot.
I know you can simulate GPS, but it's way too clean and predictable. With a real phone you get much weirder behavior. Besides the whole permission topic on real devices.
One player complained about GPS jumping 100 meters away, but their Google Maps had the same issue. So I had to say "I can't do it better than Google Maps" :D
Seconding the F-Droid request.
Also, the app is not available in Russia, is that by design?
In any case, good luck with it and thanks for sharing something like this!
Yes, sorry. I had to limit a handful of countries due to laws.
For example Japan forces you to register a business there.. similar to Vietnam. Russia has sanctions. And so on :-/
I see! This is understandable for a small indie dev.
But I'll always be happy to see other avenues for distribution :)
well, I don't have any interest in this game. but, since it's free with no data collection I'll try it, and give it 5 stars
This is really cool! I'll def download it and send some support :)
Thanks ๐ Let me know what you think about it!
Interesting concept and I wanted to try it. Downloaded from Aurora (because my phone is degooglized) and was kicked out of the game upon launch because google play isn't enabled.. Disappointing and I'd love to have it on F Droid too
Ah, sorry, by default Google seems to inject some kind of Google Protection into new apps. You're the third person asking about F Droid, I'll have to take a look :)
I might need to do custom builds for that though (strip out Google plugins), I'll put it on my todo list.
+1 for f-droid pls :)
Found it, Google injects by default an "Installer check" that blocks the app from running without Google Play.
I disabled it, try to get the newest version of the game (1.2.11) over Aurora and see if it runs :)
F Droid is a lot more messy, the game has to be 100% open source for it, which is not something I'm working on right now. I'd rather get it to iOS first.
This is so cool and I immediately downloaded it. I look forward to trying it out and dontaing to you! I rather my money go to a donation than a store. Thanks for sharing and developing!
Thank you ๐
But please only donate if you're rich. Otherwise just enjoy the game and if you want give feedback :)
Times are hard enough for everyone, I made the game in my freetime and have a job, so no worries!
Looks great, thank you for developing it and for releasing it for free without catches! I hope that you will eventually release it for iOS.
Have you posted this to Mastodon or any other social media yet? I hope that word will spread and make your game popular. :)
Just on Reddit, but it's a ghost town with zero interactions, lol.
I'm not really active on Twitter like sites, not my style unfortunately :-/
No problem, I understand. I'll see what I can do to spread the word.
You may want to consider cross-posting this to some other communities on Lemmy though, like !freegames@lemmy.ml and perhaps !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml since this is a pretty interesting use of OSM data. Thanks again.
Just read your comments about OSM data etc. Fantastic! Well done.
About to head on holiday to Europe, so have downloaded it and will play as I go.
Thank you!
Lovely. If you run out of street map as you travel, just hit the map button again. It will hopefully offer you the download for the new area :)
Fantastic. Pressed and held map icon and I'm now in Germany, in the village, and about to give it a go.
Just a quick tap should work :)
Heh, for a moment I thought you teleported. Have fun!
If you enjoy it, please leave a review, the game has plenty of positive ratings, but Google hides them until I get to 5 written reviews :-/
Great tip! Thank you
I have tried it. So far, I had to open the Google Maps app while the app is open so it will exit "Waiting for GPS." Maybe for it to trigger the location service. Also, I think the map will be friendlier if it can be rotated based on the compass or manual rotation by pinch. The current setup would be fine only if you are already familiar with the roads in the area. But, for a free app, I like that there is an alternative i can use for Pokemon Go or Ingress.
I've never been one to do mobile app type things, and with the Pokemon Go stuff that came out, I'm massively hesitant to. I understand this is offline, but it requires GPS. Is that just for the game locally on the device? I see no ads. Do you collect any data? I love this idea, I'm just honestly hesitant because of the current situation of these kinds of games.
It's fully offline, so no worries there. The GPS is just for your game to know where you are while playing. No ads, no data collected (besides what Google generally collects over the Play Store).
In theory there is one network connection to Cloudflare: I offer a street map download for all across the world. So for example if you're in Austria like me it looks up which map file you need (simple .json catalog), then offers you to download the map file once (57 MB for Austria). But I don't track anything there either.
Zero interest in handling player data, I'm in the EU, GDPR is a bitch :)
Iโm always looking for a walking game, unfortunately Iโm stuck on iOS. Do you use OpenStreetMap for your map data? Iโd love to add your game to our wiki if so.
I still need to get a used iPhone to look into iOS releases (:
Map data is from OpenStreetMap, then heavily cut down and compressed so people don't have to download so much.
I see a couple people asking for an F-Droid release which would be great, but would require the app to be open source. Just thought I'd let you know there's no obligation for you to open-source your app if you dont want to. If you'd rather keep it closed source that's okay too
This looks awesome! Downloaded. I already play Walkscape, which is like RuneScape but works by counting steps. This will be a fun addition
Fully playable while traveling.
Stuff you put down is just decoration (so skip that for places you don't revisit) and currently two functional buildings (garden to plant ingredients, market stall to sell potions for less gold).
When traveling over 12 km/h it doesn't count for walk distance (companion rewards, daily missions, ..) but it's fully playable otherwise :)
Please make F-Droid version happens.
For now I removed the Google Play store protection, so you can download it over Aurora (Starting with version 1.2.11).
F-Droid won't happen for a while, as the game would need to be 100% open source for it, sorry!
So interestingly, my phone downloaded and is playing it fine. We went to search it up on my husband's phone, and his phone isn't supported? Which is wild to me, as my phone is older/generally the one that doesn't find apps!
Also maybe for the future, an idea! It's very odd to me I can't move the map at all. No swiveling around and looking, it's always just looking northish I suppose! Maybe I'm more use to games like Orna where you can swivel and move and look around the map though.
So far I do like it! I look forward to more!
Edit: Wait, forgot about the main topic, what phone does your husband have? There shouldn't be any restriction on Android version (if it's one of the newer ones), but maybe I really messed up somewhere.
Yes, the map only has zoom for now (pinch in and out). As it's a fantasy world I didn't want to provide too much "looking around" options, the only thing that has to do with the real world is the street maps, which is an optional download ^^'
A little bit concerned people will do stupid things like go into private property, if I give too much freedom there. But I'll think about adding a two finger move or something, the big question is just how to recenter again afterwards (button? There already is a double tap to reset zoom).
Congratulations and good luck!
Interesting. I'll see how well my phone likes it.
I'm very bad at both the dragging water to the pot and keeping the fire going it seems! Oh well.
Copped!
