Hello!
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
Or you can visit the website.
We also have my devblogs released every two weeks available at https://portal.walkscape.app/development
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!
Stay hydrated, and keep walking ❤️
Sounds interesting. I’ll be waiting for a release.
Wow, this is awesome! Definitely going to consider supporting this, looks like a lot of fun for just moving around.
As a long time RuneScape player, this is exactly the kind of stuff I want to see more of.
Are you in contact with Jagex at all? They have a history of actually supporting “community projects”, best possible analogy to this being Melvor Idle, which is officially recognised and published by Jagex. And they’re also known for supporting mental and physical health causes. Seems like the perfect game to form some kind of partnership on.
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
Having carried over an account from the original RS2 back in the day all the way over to modern RS3, getting multiple 99’s, and now currently exploring all that OSRS has to offer, I bet I’m one of those crazy enough to grind out all the things in real life too.
I still consider properly implemented progression systems (where you’re always working towards the next thing) one of the more enjoyable and rewarding game mechanics. And I find there are too few games out there that actually implement them correctly. Most prominent examples I can think of are RuneScape and Terraria. There is just something about progressing through the tiers and experiencing all the different shinies that come with them.
But you probably know this, otherwise you wouldn’t be working on this app. :P
Hello, I’m trying to submit my application on Android (Firefox browser) and the button doesn’t seem to do anything when I click it. Hopefully I didn’t just submit a bunch of apps at once. Any idea what I can do to get past this?
First time hearing this. Maybe your application is missing something? Could it be the 200 character limit to the text?
I cut my message down and it still won’t work. Btw there was no indication of any character limit or why it won’t go through. Here is the application I’m trying to submit:
Edit: nevermind, I figured it out. It was the dash in my step number.
Glad it worked! ❤️
@schamppu a friend is running a marathon this weekend. Any chance they can get into beta by then?
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?
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 ❤️
When you say “apply to the closed beta”, where do you want people to apply?
- Sign up to the Portal https://portal.walkscape.app
- Click your profile pic to get to account page
- Press apply to beta
I applied for the beta today and got accepted straight away. I love the look of this game and will be using it to get me to walk out more.
First impressions are good, the game is very polished and you can see that the creators really take their time with things, the level of detail is insane.
The game seems easy to pick up and I am looking forward to following it’s development closely.
Thank you so much, this comment made me smile <3! I’ve been accepting more people today, and I’m very glad to hear you’re enjoying it.
I’m the type of game dev who tends to be very perfectionist even on small things, and also this project started off as a passion hobby project, which hopefully shows! We’ve poured a lot of love and care to the game. Because of the high level polish I’ve seen that many people already tend to look at it as a “final product”, even though we’ve only been able to implement the core gameplay loop.
Well, first impressions are great and I think there’s plenty to do for someone new to the game. I like the approach of polishing the game first and then adding content.
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.
If only Blizzard hadn’t shit the bed, you could have called it World of WalkCraft.
Signed up and already find myself adding extra ways to my day to get steps, the gamification works!
Is there a Lemmy community to discuss this with other scapers?
Not yet, we have a fairly active one over Reddit. I’ll need to consider opening one here as well!
deleted by creator
I’ve been consistently hiking for a couple months now and I don’t always enjoy it. I’ll try this out and see if I can change my perspective! Thanks!
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.
