Hello! Gear sets are actually coming in the very next update to the game, that feature is already pretty much finished. Most recent devblog covers this more! We held a poll about what are the most frequently asked QOL, and gear sets were #1 so we started with that.

You can check how the system works here: https://lemmy.zip/post/27883811

This was already fixed like month ago! It was mostly happening on Pixel devices only.

Give a try to the new version, it shouldn't use much battery at all now.

Not yet, but it's on our roadmap. Google is right now doing a major rework on this (Health Connect), which delays our efforts on that for a moment as we need to wait for them to release it fully.

Sure: https://walkscape.app/privacy-policy.html

We're based in Finland, so we follow GDPR.

Free to play so you can first try it out before making a purchase decision. Then you can either play it single player with single purchase, or if you want to play it online it's affordable subscription. This is the least predatory way of doing monetization that in my mind works great both for the players and makes sure we can support the game for long.

And thank you!

Thank you so much! <3

If you feel a bit stuck, I recommend to check out https://wiki.walkscape.app/ and https://map.walkscape.app/

In order to process higher level materials, you need to level up your craftings skills: Carpentry, Crafting, Smithing. You need to start with low end materials, which you have levels for. Then you can move onto higher level recipes.

When you craft yourself some good gear, progress in the game is a lot faster and you'll find yourself progressing to further areas.

Running counts! Also treadmills or walking pads, as long as you have your phone in your pocket.

Smart watches are not supported yet, but coming. Smart watch support would already work great on iOS, but we're held up by Google with it as they introduced Health Connect for smart watch integrations and it's a buggy mess at the moment. Google Fit APIs (that would've worked nicely) are deprecated.

Woah, thank you so much ❤️

Awesome to hear that the game has inspired you to learn Dart & Flutter. Dart is an awesome language, and Flutter is versatile and easy tool for making some great looking UIs! But even more so, it always warms my heart to hear that the game has a positive impact on people's lives. Keep it up, and thank you again!

We do have the privacy policy on there, which lists what sensitive information we collect. It's a bit vague, and we could later on edit it to be more specific, but I don't have the required skills to edit those kinda texts and we can't afford a lawyer at the moment. The sensitive information we collect are your email, username and step data, and the step data includes device information (phone model & operating system).

Non-sensitive information includes all kinds of gameplay data, like items you got and how many things you've crafted etc. which we use for game balancing and when designing new content.

The game still doesn't have a very good way for finding certain places. I recommend to check https://map.walkscape.app and https://wiki.walkscape.app in the mean time if you're struggling to find something

We are going to improve this in one of the upcoming updates

This was really awesome to read. Thank you, you made my day! More updates are coming this summer to make it even better. And hopefully smart watch + band integration soon as well. We're currently a bit delayed on that front as Google is redesigning how health app integrations work with Health Connect

It's an online game, with option for single player coming later. We run anti-cheat and cloud save your progress when you open it up, plus validate that you're running on the most recent version of the game so you can't be exploiting old game balance etc. found in previous versions.

That's really awesome to hear <3 Thank you so much, and there'll be a lot of more awesome stuff coming to the game next year.

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Sure thing! If you need anything or want to ask something specific, message me to contact@walkscape.app !

For development, I'm using my own game engine that I have built on top of Flutter. For servers, we are using our own soltuions that have been programmed with Dart language as well. I like to do everything myself :D

Thank you! We're accepting people who've applied to the Closed Beta throughout the wave, so there's a good chance you'll gain access! The wave ends on October 6th.

We've got a lot of pictures of happy doggos on the Discord :D I have cats that I walk sometimes, but they're not as effective from XP gain perspective.

Edit: and just to clarify here, access gained during any point of Closed Beta stays until Open Beta when everyone can start playing it. Open Beta is planned for next year.

Probably. I'm not too keen on paying the 30% Google Play tax anyhow, as that cost would fall to be paid by the players with increased subscription cost. I want to keep the subscription as affordable as possible. I'll try my best to find ways around it, probably easy enough on Google Play but might prove to be more difficult on AppStore.

Edit: and even as of now, the game requires no Google Services. I'm doing my best to keep it that way.

It's kinda supported - if you have your phone in your pocket you do get some steps, but it's not as efficient as walking.

I'm Finnish myself and my German skills aren't that great :D The translations for the game are made by the community, you can help correcting errors at https://translate.walkscape.app/ (the tool is currently hosted on a very underspecced server so it's laggy, we'll be moving it to a beefier one soon)

Edit: Well this was sooner than I thought, I've moved it to another server and should be very usable now.

Doesn't need to be, and designed around the idea that it is closed when you're exercising. Can be entirely closed, and still tracks the steps.