Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game)
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Ya gonna open source it and put it on fdroid?
Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game)
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Ya gonna open source it and put it on fdroid?
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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…
magikmw@piefed.social 1 month ago
You can probably emulate iOS in xcode but you are unlikely to build anything for it without MacOS and xcode. Yeah, lovely environment.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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 :-/
magikmw@piefed.social 1 month ago
Oh right, forgot the GPS, welp.
amzd@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
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.
Cricket@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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 (:
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wish ye luck! please do an after-action-review on how that goes, it’s good information for fellow devs
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
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.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m outside the macos ecosystem. so probably?