Comment on I freshly released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game)
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 day agoWhen you first start the game a tutorial should pop up?
Looks like this (without the debug joystick): Image
You pick up ingredients, brew potions and sell them to merchants. It’s like Pokemon Go, you walk in the real world, you move in the game. For orientation you can download your local street map (top left button), if you want. The square resources are minigames (5 different ones at the moment), some events are also on the map you can find.
No “goal”, get money, reputation, buy buildings, buy decorations for your neighborhood, buy skins, pets, buffs, earn achievements, …
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah, I see that. But that harvest button isn’t showing for me. Do I need to walk around for it to show up?
What does walking do?
Does walking just move you from square to square?
Do you need to have the app open when walking?
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Have you never played Pokemon Go before? It’s a GPS game, the entire game world is mapped to the real world. If you walk North in the real world you walk North in the game.
The app only runs when it’s open, but you could open it, see there’s nothing there, close it, walk 100 meters in a direction, then open it again. Or keep it open and it vibrates your phone if something new pops up.
Best thing you can do is download the street map in the game, then just go for a walk and see what you find :)
The tutorial should have spawned those two resources and an NPC for you, but maybe it got messed up? If you haven’t played yet, you can reset your game storage and try again. 3 things should be visible on the map for you on the first start.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 1 day ago
I have played Pokémon go, quite a bit infact. But in that there are places to walk to, and you constantly see Pokémon show up on the map, I don’t see anything like that in this game…
So just walk in a random direction untill the phone vibrate, or something pops up on the screen? Or are there actual things to walk to? Do I walk to the resources? They move when I zoom in and out, so that’s kind of confusing.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
The edge markers do show how far away you are from a resource. Like below 25m, 50m, 75m and so on.
But I had to remove a full on tracking UI as resources are spread evenly across the world. Pokemon Go curates spots only near streets (and trains drones on the data, lol).
With too much tracking going on I could get into legal trouble if some kid decides to break into private property or runs on some train tracks…