Hello everyone, I have an idea to make a map with fog of war, when you walk you explore new areas and points of interest but you can’t see unexplored areas. I’m not sure if it’s a good idea, what is your opinion?
You could make yours a Geocaching app with fog-of-war. They’ve got an API for third-party apps too, so it should be easy enough to develop, and actually fun to play.
If you’re feeling ambitious, add some RTS elements like from Age of Empires - eg if you add someone as your ally, you can share their line of sight. Finding certain types of caches, or POIs, increases your resources (gold/stone/food/wood - maybe visiting Pizza Hut gives you extra food lol). And with these resources, you could build virtual structures like castles etc. Other players could spend resources to take it down (but they need to be physically at that location), and you could spend resources to defend your building.
Kinda like Ingress basically, but with medieval/RTS elements and geocaching thrown into the mix. How’s that for a challenge? :)
FWIW I don’t want to pay $30, so you still have a market!
There’s also an app for iPhone that’s similar, called Super Local. Don’t let it get you down – look at what features these are missing and implement your own! All sorts of visual designs, custom mapping, all kinds of stuff could be done :)
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This exists! https://fogofworld.app/
It’s a great idea, yours sounds a bit more restricted in viewing which I think is cool
What a slogan for an app that hides away surroundings :D
great, thanks… now i have less motivation to work on it💀💀💀
You could make yours a Geocaching app with fog-of-war. They’ve got an API for third-party apps too, so it should be easy enough to develop, and actually fun to play.
If you’re feeling ambitious, add some RTS elements like from Age of Empires - eg if you add someone as your ally, you can share their line of sight. Finding certain types of caches, or POIs, increases your resources (gold/stone/food/wood - maybe visiting Pizza Hut gives you extra food lol). And with these resources, you could build virtual structures like castles etc. Other players could spend resources to take it down (but they need to be physically at that location), and you could spend resources to defend your building.
Kinda like Ingress basically, but with medieval/RTS elements and geocaching thrown into the mix. How’s that for a challenge? :)
FWIW I don’t want to pay $30, so you still have a market!
There’s also an app for iPhone that’s similar, called Super Local. Don’t let it get you down – look at what features these are missing and implement your own! All sorts of visual designs, custom mapping, all kinds of stuff could be done :)
thanks for the motivation!
Then work on one generating heatmaps instead fog-of-war!
Oh no 😅 this app has been around for over a decade so I’d be curious what a modern version would look like