Hello! ❤️
I’m the developer of WalkScape! My game is an online RPG that is inspired by RuneScape, where all of the in-game progression happens by walking in real life.
I myself have struggled to exercise enough, and I’m diagnosed with ADHD. This project started off as something I was working for myself to help me exercise more. The game has been in Closed Beta since January 18th, and the player feedback so far has been awesome!
There are three key things that make the game very unique for a mobile game, in addition to just being a nice and cozy game that incentivizes you to walk:
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No GPS. Unlike games like Pokemon Go, WalkScape uses pedometer instead of GPS. This means you can walk where ever you like, including at your home or gym on a treadmill. And doesn’t compromise your privacy.
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No MTX or ads. I’m against all kind of predatory trends in gaming, especially predatory monetisation. WalkScape is completely community funded with Patreon and Buy Me a Coffee with no external investments.
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Not hungry for your attention. WalkScape doesn’t even need to be opened in the background for you to gain progress in it. The game is designed in a way where you only need to open it after your exercise, and if you forget to the game it doesn’t punish you. It saves your “missed steps” for later.
If you’re interested to give it a try, you can check out https://walkscape.app to find how to join the upcoming beta wave, see some stats about the game (people have already walked more than 1.5 billion steps!), and our roadmap.
I’ll answer any questions you might have. Happy walking and stay hydrated ❤️
Looks sweet; applied for the beta.
Do you have integration with other health and fitness apps to retrieve non phone step counts?
I have a Garmin watch that does all my health tracking etc.
Not yet, but it’s on our roadmap. Google is right now doing a major rework on this (Health Connect), which delays our efforts on that for a moment as we need to wait for them to release it fully.
I would very much like this too! Especially if it can count distance/steps from other kinds of activities like biking, stationary bike, maybe even swimming.
Ditto but for Gadgetbridge on Android :)
It’s a planned integration but not available atm, afaik
This has been a phenomenal dopamine factory for my wfh software ADHD ass.
It’s beautiful, clearly a labor of love, and I can’t wait to see the roadmap progress! Wishing you the best of luck!
Thank you so much! And awesome to hear you’ve been liking it and it’s been helpful ❤️
That’s amazing - Would it be fine if I covered this on my (very, very small) YouTube channel? My content isn’t really related to anything fitness, but I am in the process of getting a bit fitter at the moment, so this could be a very fun thing to do and talk about for me, as I do have a weak spot for both RPGs and privacy respecting apps!
Sure thing! If you need anything or want to ask something specific, message me to contact@walkscape.app !
Great, thank you! I’ll get in touch :)
Looks fun. Supported and signed up. Thanks for posting
Thank you! Hope you enjoy it ❤️
I tried the beta a few months ago and it was great! I kinda lost interest when I struggled to find a city with the workshop I needed at the time, but I’ll try again now that a few updates have come out!
The game still doesn’t have a very good way for finding certain places. I recommend to check https://map.walkscape.app and https://wiki.walkscape.app in the mean time if you’re struggling to find something
We are going to improve this in one of the upcoming updates
Tried it the last time I saw it it posted. Be warned, this takes a huge amount of battery life to run in the back ground. So much so I had to stop playing.
This was already fixed like month ago! It was mostly happening on Pixel devices only.
Give a try to the new version, it shouldn’t use much battery at all now.
Does the app need to be open (like old PokeGo…) or does it just track in the background?
Doesn’t need to be, and designed around the idea that it is closed when you’re exercising. Can be entirely closed, and still tracks the steps.
May I ask what the reason for the battery drain was?
I’ve been using this app for the past several months. I really appreciate the fact that you can just go about your day and then open the app 1 time in the evening and see all of your progress at once. Ultimately it’s been a way better way to inspire me to get out and walk more than Pokemon Go was.
With PoGo, I’d constantly be stopping while walking about so that I could catch Pokemon. On top of that, with PoGo my routes were more or less predetermined since I’d need to walk specific places to spin stops to have enough pokeballs to keep playing. Not to mention the heavy battery drain with PoGo as the screen and GPS were constantly in-use. Additionally, PoGo always made me feel a bit awkward walking around parks if kids were playing nearby since I’m sure I looked like a total creep with my phone out…
But no more! Now I put my phone in my pocket and walk whatever direction I’d like for however long I want. No stopping, no battery drain, no daily streaks to maintain, no FOMO events to try and keep me using the app. And no more looking like a weirdo lol.
Love this app, thank you for making it. I hope one day soon it can use my activity tracker (I use a Fitbit) instead of relying solely on the phone being in my pocket, but my expectations have been blown away regardless. Phenomenal job.
This was really awesome to read. Thank you, you made my day! More updates are coming this summer to make it even better. And hopefully smart watch + band integration soon as well. We’re currently a bit delayed on that front as Google is redesigning how health app integrations work with Health Connect
Does it work for cycling?
Not officially supported, but if you have your phone in your pocket while cycling, you’ll get some!
It’s probably less optimal than walking since I seem to get less steps in when I bike, but I can confirm it works
I tried to sign up but never got a confirmation email. It’s been about 30 minutes. I checked my spam folder and it’s not there.
Game looks cool though.
Hi! We have some problems with some email providers. Could you contact me and tell the email you tried to sign up with at contact@walkscape.app and I can see what’s going on
How I mine for fish?
It’s a really nice game. The eggs and animals are a new addition right? Haven’t seen them in-game yet.
Yup, pets feature is something we’re working on right now. You might’ve seen Animal Shelter in Salsfirth, it’s very much related to the pets feature.
Oh, nice.
iOS?
Both iOS and Android!
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Play store only? Or fdroid/github too?
Just Google Play and TestFlight for now. Could be that we expand to support more stores later on, but at the moment we can’t really support more than these two.
So RuneScape X Poke’mon go?
Hmm
Well yes and no! Pokemon Go depends on GPS, so this is very different from that. And I talked to Niantic’s manager at one convention, and they said their games are mostly focused on AR.
RuneScape in a lot of ways yeah! But we can’t use their IP naturally, so the world and content is completely different.
they said their games are mostly focused on AR
This is amusing to hear. I’ve not played pogo for a few years ago I don’t know if things have changed, but absolutely everyone I knew used the AR for 5 minutes because it was cool and then disabled it forever because it made the game sightly harder!
I thought the exact same. For me, the AR stuff feels like such a gimmick.
Pikmin Bloom was their most fitness focused game
I was in the Summer event and came third or so for Jarvonia overall. Like a dope I stopped using Discord right after that and haven’t seen anything from the game since. Looks awesome, can’t wait to get in.
