First off, I’ve struggled to exercise, and I also have ADHD. Gamifying exercise works really well for my dopamine-craving brain, but I’m also easily distracted, so the current mobile fitness games on the market didn’t really work for me. That’s how I came up with this idea.
Here are some info about the game and how it’s different from Pokemon Go for example:
no distractions. I love games that value my time. WalkScape is designed so that it encourages you not to open it while you’re walking, but afterwards. And even if you open it while walking, changing things in the game is super quick.
no GPS. So you can walk where ever you want. The game tracks your steps even without an internet connection, but you need a connection when you open the game.
no ads, no MTX. I hate predatory monetisation practises, and they encourage unhealthy spending habits. This game is about both mental and physical health.
In the game, you explore and work in different skills such as woodcutting, foraging, fishing and crafting by walking in real life. The game uses your phone’s pedometer to track your progress. It’s also online, so you can work with your friends towards common goals without needing to be physically in the same location.
The game has dozens of locations, hundreds of items, NPCs, shops and more is coming as I work towards the full release of the game. There’s a lot of different unique and cute activities in the game you can set your character to do in addition to the typical woodcutting and mining, like volunteering in soup kitchen or helping locals repairing their boats. All fueled by walking IRL.
If you feel like you’d like to try it out, you can either apply to the closed beta (we’re inviting more people right now) or if you like to support the development, you get instant to access through Patreon or Buy me a Coffee to start playing. The game is completely community funded.
Whether you decide to support or apply to the closed beta, you’ll need to sign up at WalkScape Portal to the game and then apply or connect your Patreon on the account page.
You can also check our this video to hear me and the artist explain more about the game: Youtube introduction video
It’s been a wild journey for me growing this thing from my personal hobby project, and awesome to see the game helping so many people to exercise more. I’ll answer any questions you might have in the comments!
Saw this and tried the game. It is fine but what is not fine is the battery drain. 25-30% per charge is way too high to justify playing this game, sadly.
Watch support is coming later on when we add integrations with Google Fit and Apple Health, but at the moment not supported. Only phone’s pedometer is now counted for
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.
Yeah, I’m aware of this issue and have been trying to find time to look fix it, but it’s relatively rare. It’s something wrong with cookies. Usually fixed after either clearing cookies from the Portal, or trying a different browser. Let me know if it works or not!
I’ve used chrome and duckduckgo on my Android, then Firefox and opera on my linux laptop, then chrome, edge and Opera on my windows 10 laptop.
I get taken straight to the main page on my Android and on the windows machine, but on the browsers using my Linux laptop, I receive the error message " application error: a client side exception has occurred. (See the browser console for more information. )."
Is there any other prerequisite I might have looked over before I’m supposed to click on that accept the invite link?
Sounds really cool! Unfortunately can’t currently help you out financially since I’m crunching to finish my study, but applied on the site anyways. Either way, really cool project and hope to see more of it, good luck!
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.
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.
I just tried to sign up there, but seems they only accept stripe as payment - which still insists on making me solve unsolvable captchas before letting me pay.
I’m really interested!!! Unfortunately I keep getting an ‘invalid credentials’ notification after clicking the link to verify. I’ve tried to reset the password but still can’t get in. I’m happy to send a donation, but want to make sure it’s linked to an account.
Do you have a character limit? I also can’t show the password while trying to log in to verify it was inserted correctly. I’ve tried both with and without special characters and am using iOS ‘suggest a password’ feature if that helps at all.
I’ll be trying again in the morning to see if goes through as I can totally understand there being a delay in verification.
Definitely trying this one out. I’ve been a daily POGO player since launch because it gets me outside walking around. I liked how Pikmin Bloom had the passive pedometer angle, but it also had to constantly check GPS, so it was a battery hog.
I’d definitely benefit from Google Fit integration since I like to use the elliptical while wearing my watch. But I’d still get plenty of distance with just pedometer. Least of which because I’ll already be playing POGO.
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.
Some are very easy depending on how the game works (at least on android). E.g. when pokemon go came out you could just go to developer settings (in android settings) and change your location to wherever you wanted.
Another super easy one is changing the time to get around timegated games.
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Saw this and tried the game. It is fine but what is not fine is the battery drain. 25-30% per charge is way too high to justify playing this game, sadly.
Will it be able to use my watch to track steps?
Watch support is coming later on when we add integrations with Google Fit and Apple Health, but at the moment not supported. Only phone’s pedometer is now counted for
Ah, my watch isn’t Google anyway, so that’s a shame. Still a cool game, and I’m sure I could play it without watch support.
Google Fit supports almost every watch out there. Garmin, Fitbit, Samsung etc. all should work through it.
Really? I thought it was only watches running Google watch OS, which I didn’t get for battery life reasons. I wonder if my Hauwei GT2 is supported.
I have original Huawei GT watch, worked great with Google Fit!
Can confirm that almost all watches that work with Android can just link with Google fit
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
Same issue, kinda bummed
Message OP directly, he did a workaround so that I could register and the game is very fun if you like walking games and RuneScape.
I’ve played more than a few walking games, and this is probably already at the top of my list, even factoring in the obvious beta-release issues.
Yeah, I’m aware of this issue and have been trying to find time to look fix it, but it’s relatively rare. It’s something wrong with cookies. Usually fixed after either clearing cookies from the Portal, or trying a different browser. Let me know if it works or not!
Thanks, I just checked.
I’ve used chrome and duckduckgo on my Android, then Firefox and opera on my linux laptop, then chrome, edge and Opera on my windows 10 laptop.
I get taken straight to the main page on my Android and on the windows machine, but on the browsers using my Linux laptop, I receive the error message " application error: a client side exception has occurred. (See the browser console for more information. )."
Is there any other prerequisite I might have looked over before I’m supposed to click on that accept the invite link?
Thanks.
Nope, that should be all. You can contact me with the email you signed up on [email protected] and I’ll sort it out for you
Sent, thank you, and of course take your time.
I’m having the same issue here.I was hitting the website link in the email rather than the verify link.Sounds really cool! Unfortunately can’t currently help you out financially since I’m crunching to finish my study, but applied on the site anyways. Either way, really cool project and hope to see more of it, good luck!
If you’re interested, apply to the beta through the website! You’ll get access eventually through that ❤️
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.
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.
I guessed as much, it doesn’t matter if the game can pull step data from tons of sources if it doesn’t do something worthwhile with it haha!
I hope my bug reports are worth the hassle <3
Any option without patreon? I deleted my account there a few years back after they tried to push those shitty payment policy changes.
possible with BuyMeACoffee too; https://www.buymeacoffee.com/walkscape
I just tried to sign up there, but seems they only accept stripe as payment - which still insists on making me solve unsolvable captchas before letting me pay.
Dude, those captchas are brutal
You must be a robot then and they have caught you red handed trying to pay for things online.
Red pincered?
I’m mostly using my bike for my daily commutes these days but this looks super interesting. I’ll give it a look !
This looks really cool!
I’m really interested!!! Unfortunately I keep getting an ‘invalid credentials’ notification after clicking the link to verify. I’ve tried to reset the password but still can’t get in. I’m happy to send a donation, but want to make sure it’s linked to an account.
Do you have a character limit? I also can’t show the password while trying to log in to verify it was inserted correctly. I’ve tried both with and without special characters and am using iOS ‘suggest a password’ feature if that helps at all.
I’ll be trying again in the morning to see if goes through as I can totally understand there being a delay in verification.
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 ❤️
Got in! It was a really silly mistake on my part; I was trying to log in with my username instead of my email 🙃 in my defense I was very sleepy haha
Thanks for the quick response as well ❤️
This is a neat idea. I never exercised more than when I played Pokemon Go.
Definitely trying this one out. I’ve been a daily POGO player since launch because it gets me outside walking around. I liked how Pikmin Bloom had the passive pedometer angle, but it also had to constantly check GPS, so it was a battery hog.
I’d definitely benefit from Google Fit integration since I like to use the elliptical while wearing my watch. But I’d still get plenty of distance with just pedometer. Least of which because I’ll already be playing POGO.
Could you elaborate on the reasons why?
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.
Isn’t that next to impossible in mobile games like this?
But it just might work… for us.
Some are very easy depending on how the game works (at least on android). E.g. when pokemon go came out you could just go to developer settings (in android settings) and change your location to wherever you wanted.
Another super easy one is changing the time to get around timegated games.
Why would it be? From pedometer and sensor data, it’s quite easy to determine if someone is cheating or not.
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
Haha :D ADHD minds think alike I guess
I’m a dumb and can’t read good.
What do you mean full up?
… I’m a dumb. I just skimmed, saw the date and assumed it would be full. It is not, however, after March 31st. I’ll edit the original post.
Alright, I’ve signed up as a supporter, looking forward to digging in. Thanks!
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