Comment on I just released my first fully free Android game: Wandering Alchemist (GPS walking game)
ozoned@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I’ve never been one to do mobile app type things, and with the Pokemon Go stuff that came out, I’m massively hesitant to. I understand this is offline, but it requires GPS. Is that just for the game locally on the device? I see no ads. Do you collect any data? I love this idea, I’m just honestly hesitant because of the current situation of these kinds of games.
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s fully offline, so no worries there. The GPS is just for your game to know where you are while playing. No ads, no data collected (besides what Google generally collects over the Play Store).
In theory there is one network connection to Cloudflare: I offer a street map download for all across the world. So for example if you’re in Austria like me it looks up which map file you need (simple .json catalog), then offers you to download the map file once (57 MB for Austria). But I don’t track anything there either.
Zero interest in handling player data, I’m in the EU, GDPR is a bitch :)
ozoned@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Thank you for taking the time to address my paranoia. :D
I’ve downloaded the game and going to try it out. First off, I absolutely LOVE the art style. So pretty.
Thank you for creating this and sharing it with us here. :)
Vlyn@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Thank you for giving it a try 💚
Honestly I was a bit afraid no one is going to play it (: