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In the future, when this is wildly successful, please develop a plugin for my smart watch so i don't have too keep my phone in my pocket. /stuffthatsnotrelevantnow

I looks wonderful!

I am a Pogo player and I hate having to stay looking at the phone, under the rain or with cold hands or bloody sun 😂

You write "no mtx, no ads". How do you plan to monetize your app ? Will it be a one time payment or with DLCs?

Hey there, it sounds like a very cool project.

I received my confirmation email but when I click accept the invite, it just takes me to the main page, but I still can't log in or confirm my account.

I'm using the same username as on lemmy, Varyk

Since this is an MMORPG, how so you prevent cheating? Since this works offline, what prevents someone from faking the steps count and reporting to the game that they totally made 50000 steps while the phone was offline for 24 hours?

Looks amazing! But this was my main worry here.

As someone who got into the closed beta a few days ago it is a fantastic motivator to get moving.

Absolutely love the artwork and the parts of the world I've seen so far.

Keep up the great work schamppu and team!

It amuses me that my first thought was that this would be great for ADHDers like myself and then it turns out thats why you created it lol

This is neat. I don't know if I'd stick with it enough to justify paying, but I like the idea. Also big fan of one time purchase options instead of a subscription

Any option without patreon? I deleted my account there a few years back after they tried to push those shitty payment policy changes.

The game tracks your steps even without an internet connection, but you need a connection when you open the game.

Could you elaborate on the reasons why?

This sounds really cool. It would be cool if it could work with other services like Google fit or other devices that count steps so that we can go out without phone and it would still count those steps after syncing.

I'd be willing to pay for this feature, although I get that it feels like a post release extra.

Really cool, I'll sign up probably.

I was just looking for a game like this earlier today. This is perfect!

Wow, this is awesome! Definitely going to consider supporting this, looks like a lot of fun for just moving around.

As a long time RuneScape player, this is exactly the kind of stuff I want to see more of.

Are you in contact with Jagex at all? They have a history of actually supporting "community projects", best possible analogy to this being Melvor Idle, which is officially recognised and published by Jagex. And they're also known for supporting mental and physical health causes. Seems like the perfect game to form some kind of partnership on.

When you say "apply to the closed beta", where do you want people to apply?

Signed up and already find myself adding extra ways to my day to get steps, the gamification works!

Is there a Lemmy community to discuss this with other scapers?

Hello fellow developer with ADHD! This sounds perfect, exactly what I’ve been searching for. Most apps were not gamified enough, or quickly devolved into some manipulative microtransaction slot machine.
I’ve signed up as monthly supporter and am now eagerly awaiting access to the beta :) Can’t wait to try it.

I applied for the beta today and got accepted straight away. I love the look of this game and will be using it to get me to walk out more.

First impressions are good, the game is very polished and you can see that the creators really take their time with things, the level of detail is insane.

The game seems easy to pick up and I am looking forward to following it's development closely.

Will it be able to use my watch to track steps?

This is looking really cool! I'm really interested in trying it out.

Since you mentioned Garmin Connect in this thread, I would like to throw in my five cents too. I'm in the Garmin ecosystem for my fitness tracking devices, so it would be amazing if the game could get my step counts from Garmin Connect, since that's where I'm collecting them anyway, and lugging my phone around to do the step counting can be a bit cumbersome. But if the game is fun enough, I guess it's not a dealbreaker for the time being!

This looks super neat! Love the theme that you've chosen for this game, everything from the UI and graphical choices looks very good imo. Got a few questions im curious about;

1. Do you use Google Services Framework for this game to work? I know there are quite a few lemmies who use Graphene OS as their OS on Pixel phones, where some of them might not want to have this installed, (Not that im one of them).
2. You write that the game is kind of designed to be opened after the walk, but can be opened while walking. Are there any benefits/features/activities for the user while walking? Such as in Pokemon Go, you stop every now and then to fetch Pokemon. Or does this app kind of encourage not to use it while walking?
3. Will the game be open source? Will people be able to download it on F-droid? Or will this be strictly published on Play Store + App Store?
4. Will there be any implementations against people who try to spoof their locations to gain "steps" easily? As low as this is, people will always do it to see their name at the top of the leader-board

I very much look forward to seeing this game come to life, I will definitely be keeping a keen eye the next few days! 🌻

I'm mostly using my bike for my daily commutes these days but this looks super interesting. I'll give it a look !