Play Anywhere issue

[rm.atk...@gmail.com]

Although I've developed a number of Wherigos none of them have been Play Anywhere, so maybe I'm doing something wrong.

I've developed a little game that is located about 30km from where I live, but with the idea that it can be played anywhere. It has a start location which is in the centre of the first zone, so as soon as you start a character appears and you can talk to them. I've been testing it in webwigo, happily "playing" it in France or elsewhere. I've now compiled it, loaded it onto my phone and walked out of my front door, running it on WhereYouGo. As soon as I start the cartridge the start zone is shown but it is around 50 metres away. I've used fakegps to 'play' it further from and closer to the original coordinates, and the offset seems to get larger (non-linearly) the further away that I am.

 

I have generated a very small cartridge with just a start point and one zone, and it has the same problem.

The cartridge works correctly on the iPhone, so it would suggest the problem is in WhereYouGo.

Any other thoughts.

Thanks

Richard

[rm.atk...@gmail.com]

I've found a solution, which means ignoring the Play Anywhere feature of Earwigo. I have used some lua code from Ranger Fox to relocate my zones on start-up. This works as I have only 5 zones, which are in a centre, East, West, North and South configuration. It works well in WhereYouGo and I'm waiting to check that it works on the iphone. The advantage of this approach is that the cache location does not need to move, but I have not been able to get the cartridge to run in Webwigo - I have to remove the call to the relocate function.

Richard 

 

[rm.atk...@gmail.com]

My modification has not worked on the iphone, so I come back to the forum to see if anyone has any ideas. I have created a test cartridge and uploaded it to a Wherigo page - link below. This cartridge has 1 zone, containing an item, which is initially in the Gloucester area of England, but has been compiled with the Play Anywhere option of Earwigo. When you start the cartridge you should be in the centre of the start zone, but with this cartridge I am about 1.5km away when I start it in London.

The cartridge is at:

http://www.wherigo.com/cartridge/details.aspx?CGUID=2d214a37-5cf9-41f6-b24b-327c088be2af

I have made it possible to download the gwz file.

Any thoughts - otherwise I will have to issue two cartridges.

Richard

[lands...@gmail.com]

I have created 5 play anywhere cartridges for the UK Mega event using Earwigo. They run fine on iPhone but WhereYouGo users are finding the zones are a considerable distance away from them and the further they are from the coordinates used to generate the game the worse the issue. This is affecting lots of people. I have tried adding an in game start button to generate the zones after start up. This helps some people but not others. If anyone has developed a better solution since this original post I would be very grateful as we have a lot folks currently unable to complete the UK Mega geo-art because of this issue.