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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?

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[–] GammaGames 10 points 6 months ago (7 children)

This exists! https://fogofworld.app/

It’s a great idea, yours sounds a bit more restricted in viewing which I think is cool

[–] Vitaly@feddit.uk 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

great, thanks... now i have less motivation to work on it💀💀💀

[–] d3Xt3r 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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? :)

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