Thank you so much! I've been in contact with Jagex. They've give us their legal blessings for our trademark and also license to use their trademark as part of our marketing. But nothing more than that.
We're now working to fix a lot of the issues that were brought up by the awesome testers we got, and then again expanding the game with more features, content and online stuff. I think as a RS enthusiast, you would probably enjoy a lot of the stuff we have in our roadmap :D
Always :D I've been stuck to use that after I won an award with the game quite surprisingly and did a relatively cringy speech:
My pleasure, have a great day as well! ❤️
Doesn't have a character limit.
If the problem persist, contact me on [email protected] and I'll sort it out for you!
Also remember the verify email confusingly has two links in it, you want to click the verify link.
Sorry for the inconvenience, I'll try to find time to improve Portal at some point ❤️
If you're interested, apply to the beta through the website! You'll get access eventually through that ❤️
Thank you so much for the questions, I'll answer them as best as I can:
I have intentionally built everything without relying on any Google service. We have couple of players with de-googled phones and the game works great. Worth noting is that when we add smart watch integration through Google Fit, that wouldn't work. We might later on build support for Garmin Connect too, but it's still a bit out of scope. But just using your phone to count steps already works with de-googled phones.
Worth noting is though that the closed beta is distributed via Google Play closed testing, but it's possible to get around that as some other players have.
No, no activities like that you would need to do while walking. If you need to open it during your walk, it's mostly changing what you're doing in the game.
All planned active gameplay components are designed so that they'll be something you play after the walk at your home.
If there's demand for more "active walking" gameplay, we might implement something for that later on. But for now, we encourage to keep it closed when you walk, and that's something a lot of players love about it, myself included.
No open sourcing planned. I have released some related stuff open source (like the character creation tool), but not the game or the server tech I've built. I have made my own game engine for it, and I feel like if I released it open source I would have to compete against clones of the game I've worked so hard to make, so not really keen on doing that.
Just Google Play and App Store for now, I might be releasing it on other app stores later on, but the publishing pipeline for it even now is quite a complex one for a single dev, and I'm not keen to make it even more so.
Yes! I replied to the other comment with the same question in more details if you're interested reading it.
And thank you so much, hopefully this answered your questions! ❤️
Google Fit and Apple Health support is planned, and the most frequentlt requested feature. We first want to perfect the one we have now so the game is also completely "self sufficient" and doesn't depend on other apps. But support for those is coming during Closed Beta, including support for smart watches through them.
Thank you so much Synapsisdos. We will 🫡 Have fun walking!
Haha, agreed! Replied to the OP with more details, we have this planned out and will do the best we can.
We're developing an anti-cheat, and have quite good plan how to deal with it. Obviously every MMO always has cheaters, but the great thing about WalkScape is that there's just one input to the game (your steps) which makes monitoring a lot easier.
We're already tracking the steps server side and getting some data to implement a version of the anti-cheat during closed beta, and then testing it out in our separate server with people who want to try cheating in order to perfect it before we go open beta. It's something we're committed to improve, and I'll do the best coding wizardry that I can.
My bottom line is that we probably can never catch every cheater, but as long as we can catch those who would ruin the economy or competition, it's not going to ruin the game for others. And I'll of course aim higher than that, but trying to stay realistic as this is an indie game and I don't have the resources to hire 20 people to work on anti-cheat.
Thank you so much, and hopefully the game helps you out as well! It has tricked my brain so that my average daily steps have gone from around 3k to 10k+ now.
Happy walking and remember to stay hydrated! ❤️
First time hearing this. Maybe your application is missing something? Could it be the 200 character limit to the text?