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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah - battery optimization has tendency to kill apps, even if they’re not consuming resources. If you’re experiencing battery drain from doing this (or if it works fine), I’d appreciate if you send me your findings to our contact email address ❤️
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
The game doesn’t need to be active on regular Android. I’m pretty sure the reason why it’s like that on GrapheneOS is that when the game is killed, the sandbox is killed and the Google Play Services shut down. If Google Play Services aren’t on there, the Recording API will not count steps in the background.

Probably easiest solution is to let WalkScape to run in the background, when it’s freezed the battery consumption should be basically nothing.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
I haven’t used GrapheneOS myself, but I’ve heard from others that running it in sandbox works. The game requires Google Play Services in order to count the steps in background, so sandbox with Google Play Services should fix that. The API the game specifically uses is the Recording API.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:
This is planned as part of the QoL updates! Notifications that are opt-in for certain things happening in the game.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
And thank you! I know it’s hard to also trust game devs these days, but we’re doing all we can to protect our users privacy. That’s why there are already privacy settings in the game too - you can hide your steps from other players if you don’t want to share those. And you can also hide your entire user profile so it’s not visible to other players. These settings also protect you if 3rd parties scrape the leaderboards etc.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
We have lootboxes that are (and always will be) obtainable through gameplay. You can get chests from any activity while you’re playing the game.

The very first devblog I wrote I already promised that we will never do predatory monetisation. Affordable subscription should be all we need to keep the game running.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
It’s just steps and the timestamp, no location data. We don’t ask for location permission, and it’s not accessible through OS APIs either.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you so much ❤️
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
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.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Well that’s definitely weird - Android or iOS? We’ll need to try this ourselves to see if there’s something going on with that form.

Thanks for the report and happy walking! ❤️
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
If you apply, make sure to mention that! Would appreciate hearing if it works or not.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you so much! ❤️
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you, and happy walking! ❤️
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
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.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
The game requires Google Play Services for the pedometer to work (the game uses the new Recording API to count your steps while the game is closed). On GrapheneOS I’ve heard it works if you run it in a sandbox. You don’t need a Google account for the Recording API to work, and according to the developer documentation data is stored locally.

If you can run sandboxed apps woth Google Play Services, it should work, but I’ve not heard from LineageOS users any experiences.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you so much! <3

If you feel a bit stuck, I recommend to check out wiki.walkscape.app and 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.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
One application is enough! And thank you! <3
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, the search helps but we do have plans to introduce better bank & inventory management. Next update will include gear sets, so you can easily save some presets to equip.

And thank you so much, I love to hear that people are having fun with the game!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Awesome, and I’m happy to hear you’ve been enjoying it <3
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Sure: walkscape.app/privacy-policy.html

We’re based in Finland, so we follow GDPR.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
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: lemmy.zip/post/27883811
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
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 this year.
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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yup, I have! From development standpoint, building integrations with each of the manufacturer is not really an option for us right now, a it’s both a lot of work and we can’t afford to buy the devices to test it out.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Thank you so much!

Depending on how the legislations now post-DMA go, it might be possible to also handle payments throughout our Portal instead of app stores. The app stores, especially Apple’s, has still a bunch of rules in their ToS about this where they might remove the game entirely if you’re not using their payment system. Android is slightly more lenient on this regard though.

The cuts Patreon already takes (a whopping 14% in total, after which we then play VAT) already affects us enough that I would definitely love to rather have my own systems, but also they offer a lot of convenience to the users that we couldn’t at this point.

But overall it would be great if we could provide a direct payment system straight from Portal, as we could price that one also significantly cheaper than using Google’s or Apple’s systems when we don’t need to pay their cuts. It’s something I really want to do to be able to make the pricing as affordable as possible, and everything depends on if it’s both feasible and allowed by the app stores. But can’t promise this, as there are a lot of factors in play whether it’s feasible to provide our own systems and if it’s allowed by the biggest stores.

When it comes to direct APK downloads, maybe if we can get a good pipeline for those. I think the most realistic option is that we’ll pick the one for an “extra release pipeline” that we can automate most easily to our current systems. Could be Aurora Store, F-Droid or some other depending on what kind of automation options they offer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Recording API is local only and doesn’t require a Google account
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I changed my mind, and created one here: https://lemmy.world/c/walkscape
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I created one actually, here: https://lemmy.world/c/walkscape
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I created an official community for the game here on Lemmy here after many people asked for it. For official development blogs, I still recommend to check WalkScape Portal as I can’t promise we can post them here as well. But we’ll see!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Managing two release pipelines is already a lot, and we currently don’t really have the time for supporting yet another one when 99.9% of users are fine with AppStore and Google Play. It’s something I’ll probably figure out at some point when we have enough time for that though!

And yeah, only relies on Google’s Recording API which is part of the services. It’s really annoying that they made (just recently) the pedometer APIs part of Google Services, but I can’t really change that either.