We heard quite a lot of questions regarding Walker of Aldenor, it’s accessibility and compatibility. I (Tesak) am always working on making the game more accessible and compatible with as many devices as possible. But in the meantime I would like to answer as many questions regarding the game as possible. In the last two updates we reworked part of the UI to be more intuitive and accessible. So if you are using an older version of Walker of Aldenor I would recommend downloading the latest version in case you are running into some issues.
If you haven’t found answer to your question, please feel free to ask me personally on our Discord or through Google Play.
Question:
Walker of Aldenor requires informations about my position or physical activities. Why?
Anwer:
Walker of Aldenor is a location based game without the need for actual location in real world. The game is only working with physical steps that are being counted either by stepcounter or accelerometer.
Stepcounter is what might be asking for these permissions during installation or when activated because it is asking your android device for the number of steps that you walked since the last check and Android would like to know if you are ok with providing such information.
Accelerometer is our legacy support for older phones or phones without build in stepcounter solution. The steps counted by accelerometer are not as precise and it requires the app to be running in focus (on your screen) in order to work.
Question:
I can’t select Stepcounter when game asks me for prefered input or in settings!
Anwer:
Every Android device with Android 5.1 or higher should be equipped with Pedometer API (which is what is being referred to as Stepcounter). It is possible that either you denied the game the permission to use it (whether on purpose or by accident). Or it is denied by default by your device manufacturer. Or maybe you are running some kind of altered Android and it might either not include this API at all or require some extra steps to activate it. Because of this I really can’t assist you with this kind of issue as I only can get my hands on few devices at a time. But I would like to hear about this issue if you experienced it, preferably with the name of manufacturer and device model name.
Question:
The game is crashing!
Anwer:
I have been informed that some devices with Android 11 are running into issues while trying to run Walker of Aldenor and the game crashes sometimes. I already tried to make it compatible by updating the whole project to work with Android 11, Android API 30 and latest Android permissions guidelines. But it seems like the game is still causing some issues on certain devices. Right now I am not able to recreate these crashes and issues on physical or virtual devices. So the only think I can ask for is patience as I don’t know how to fix this issue right now. I have some ideas that I will try to implement in future updates but I have to be extra careful doing so in order to avoid breaking the game for older devices.
Question:
I can’t find Walker of Aldenor on Google Play. Why?
Anwer:
As mentioned above Walker of Aldenor should in theory work on Android 5.1 or higher. But google play has restrictions in places that prevents some apps to be downloaded on Android 6.0 or lower if it includes certain functions (probably for security reasons). So this might be a reason why you can’t find Walker of Aldenor on Google Play.
If you own a device with Android 7.0 or higher and you still can’t find the game on Google Play, then it might be due to the lower Android API used by the device manufacturer.
Question:
I don’t know how to play your game!
Anwer:
Walker of Aldenor is motivational sandbox game. There is no other goal in the game then to motivate yourself and survive along the way in the game world. You should probably start by doing the story quests. These work like tutorial. Also if you feel lost without knowing how to play the game or how to control it, you can always refer to in game help button „?“ where you can find some basic info about the game mechanics and some other useful info. If you can’t see „?“ on your screen then it’s possible that it’s hidden. This can be changed in the settings – simply uncheck „Hide help button“.
Question:
The whole UI disapeared! Why?
Anwer:
I implemented screenshot view into the game. This can be accessed or dismissed by long swipe from left to right or from right to left. I have plans to add button to disable this function from settings in the future.
Question:
The game is said to be a completely offline experience. But I can’t access some features without internet connection! Why?
Anwer:
The whole game and it’s content is available offline without ever having to turn the internet connection on except for Sea View function that can be accessed under SPECIAL tab. You may click on Sea View to watch an ad. The reward for watching this ad is a Booster MK2, which will provide 30% bonus on anything you will gather for 100 motivational energy spend. This function is there only for people that would like to support what we are doing and Booster MK2 is our tribute for anyone doing so.