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Looks cute. I like the art style.
Ya gonna open source it and put it on fdroid?
No plans yet, I might look into that in the future.
I'd rather focus on bringing it to iOS, having a few people who already asked for it. Not an Apple fan, so still thinking about getting an old used iPhone for testing..
You can probably emulate iOS in xcode but you are unlikely to build anything for it without MacOS and xcode. Yeah, lovely environment.
Yes, you need a Mac for XCode (can't emulate that). Then you also need to pay Apple $99 a year, even if you just want to release a free app.
I could simulate an iPhone for testing, but for a GPS game this would be messy. Even on Android I'm still struggling a bit with getting GPS to work reliably. You pretty much need a real phone to test that :-/
If you can't afford or don't want to buy a used Mac for this, I recently set up MacOS 26 on a Thinkpad t480s I had lying around. Turns out if you just google specific laptop model + hackintosh, you'll easily find out if it's a well supported model for hackintosh.
However whether or not this would work on a brand new Apple account or you'd just get banned for suspicious activity, I have no idea. My account is old and I have an iPhone, so it wasn't as suspicious to them I think.
No worries there, I already got a MacBook Air recently (As I needed something portable + for work), so I have that covered. Just ordered a used iPhone SE 2020, that will still get the newest iOS version, so it should do well enough for a few tests :)
One other thought: I believe that it's possible to run macOS in a VM in Linux. The macOS license technically doesn't allow that, and I also don't know if that would be sufficient for running XCode or for publishing to the App Store. I've never tried any of that myself, but have heard that at least running it in a VM is possible.
You can also run Hackintosh if you have a AMD gpu or older Intel integrated graphics
Yes, that's another option.
Xcode actually has pretty good gps emulation, you can set routes for it to walk.
What tech is this using? Is it a html5 game?
Oh, it's Godot.
I know you can simulate GPS, but it's way too clean and predictable. With a real phone you get much weirder behavior. Besides the whole permission topic on real devices.
One player complained about GPS jumping 100 meters away, but their Google Maps had the same issue. So I had to say "I can't do it better than Google Maps" :D
Ah okay! Iβve been wanting to make this style of app using webxdc for a long time
fantastic work
But I had to use Godot Mono (with C#). GDScript was way too slow. Especially for the procedural terrain generation.
interesting! I haven't built anything for ios since unity back in 2019...
I wonder why it's so slow?
Oh right, forgot the GPS, welp.
have done game dev on ios.... man it's so much easier on android. objective c and the app store are gigantic pains in the ass. you'll probably also need to get a macbook or other apple device to build from.
Do you still have to use Objective C? They've been trying to get everyone to use Swift for nearly a decade now and Swift is a MUCH nicer language, but I have no idea about game dev in particular, since I've only done crappy little apps.
I'm outside the macos ecosystem. so probably?
Eh, did some research and it turns out you have no need for Objective C using any of the mainstream game engines (Unreal, Unity, Godot) and in general you only need it when working with old frameworks. I'd wager that pretty much anyone who started iOS dev in the last 5 years hasn't even touched objective C except when working on legacy apps.
I'm using Godot, so seemingly it could be as easy as export to XCode and build. Seemingly..
Let's see, still in the process of sourcing a cheap iPhone SE 2020 or 2022. Everyone I know uses Android, so I can't ask them if they have an old iPhone lying around (:
I wish ye luck! please do an after-action-review on how that goes, it's good information for fellow devs