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I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game with OSM street data downloads) (play.google.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/68873773

Crossposting as it was suggested to me. My game uses OSM data, with as much as possible cut out then compressed. For example the map of Austria I offer is a one time 57 MB download. Bigger countries are subdivided.

Data is under 10 GB for world wide coverage, so I can host it for free on Cloudflare :)

It took quite a while, but it's finally out. Fully free, no ads, no in-app purchases (besides a "Support the developer" option), no data collection and fully offline playable. All you need is your phone and GPS :)

I originally made the game to go on walks, unfortunately I sat even more in front of my PC to develop it. It is what it is. Hopefully it motivates some of you to get your steps in ๐Ÿ’š

General idea of the game: Collect ingredients, brew them into potions and sell them to merchants. With the gold and reputation you get you can buy things and decorate your neighborhood. Other players see the same map and resources (so you can indirectly play together), but the game world fully belongs to you (singleplayer only).

General roadmap right now:

  • Adding achievements
  • Adding buildings you can improve over time (tavern to attract merchants and an ingredient tree you need to grow)
  • More minigames and improving the existing ones
  • And of course bugfixes, please let me know if you run into issues :)

For any questions and suggestions I'm always available!

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[โ€“] [S] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Thank you!

The three buttons at the top are filters, magnify glass hides the arrow markers (25m, 50m, 75m, ..), the tree hides resources (Ingredients, events, ..) and the flag hides NPCs (It's the faction flag). I'll add it to the tutorial, it wasn't there, so it's my fault :) The idea of those filters were just: You have an NPC at home you don't want to sell to / don't have the ingredients for, but you want to look at your pretty decoration. Or you always walk the same route so you disable the edge markers (magnify glass), as they are just noise then.

Yes, the water minigame already got several redesigns. The previous version was less fiddly, but your finger was on the tip of the ladle and not the handle, so you covered the water filling and spilling. I'll try your idea about adding a little bit of gravity to it.

If the one donation I got was from you, thank you! You did give me a jumpscare on waking up as Google sends an "Urgent issue" red notification, but in reality it's just adding tax information for Ireland, the US and Taiwan (:

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