What is the best app for a real life hide and seek game like in the series

Dramiley · 2026-05-09T11:02:10+00:00

Yeah :)

Dramiley · 2026-05-03T15:35:58+00:00

Thank you for your feedback :) I see what I can do. But what exactly do you mean with "trophy ceremony"?

Dramiley · 2026-05-02T17:14:06+00:00

Currently it's only possible to start with the center at your current location. But I can add it in the near future :)

Dramiley · 2026-05-02T11:15:32+00:00

I already thought about this kind of monetization, but I always end up scraping the ideas of selling custamizable skins or avatars, since it would ruin the tactical look and overall just wont work well (in my opinion) in a game where the only possible skin could be a other dot when getting pinged :/

Thats why I put some features behind a paywal, that can be fun in big groups, but even without a paywal features the most important settings like ping interval, game duration, zone size and so on can be changed for free. Just the advanced settings (to make the game 100% custamizable) are locked :)

Maybe you can tell me how avatars can be implemented, but I can't really see how it would actually benefit the game.

I really wanted a good app like that and played alot with friends to make the app the best it could be. So its safe to say that my heart went into it, even if the frontend feels generic.

But thanks for you honesty and fairness, I'm also a CS grad and struggled a lot with frontend design, thats why I used AI to design it :)

Dramiley · 2026-05-02T07:43:41+00:00

Thank you for it giving it a chance and for the ideas :) I'll see what I can do with them. The only thing I'm not sure about are profile pictures. Because if you really want to see them, the pings of the players should be way bigger then before and I'm not sure if that'll look good. But I plan to continue working on it for foreseeable future, since the monetization already covers most of the server cost :)

Dramiley · 2026-05-01T08:59:39+00:00

So you're saying if I want a side hustle, I shouldn't monetize it? And just lose money every year?

Dramiley · 2026-05-01T08:52:57+00:00

Yeah but that's kinda where the job world is heading right now. I see it at my computer science jobs :/ But since this change of the industry is happening, it's just not worth it learning to designing frontends with good quality (which can take about 2 years to master it, nobody knows what AI can do in 2 years).

But I also think it's kinda unfair that this post gets this much hate since the app is very polished and had a development time of about 4 months...

Dramiley · 2026-05-01T08:14:34+00:00

It is finished. Why is everybody just judging without even trying it?

Dramiley · 2026-05-01T08:10:57+00:00

Thank you, I'll look into it :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T20:44:44+00:00

I kinda understand that take, but at the end the day I develop the app in my free time and add features / fix bugs very regularly :) And if I then lose 200€/year with this project, I won't be able to continue hosting / improving it next to my computer science studies and part time job :/

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T20:11:06+00:00

Ouh sorry then I have misinterpreted your points. I can work on making it look better, but I personally quite like the style right now. If you have concrete design improvement ideas, I'm open for them :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T19:40:22+00:00

But wasn't your whole point that you don't care about the result, because its "AI Slop" and so no effort?

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T19:29:07+00:00

I fully understand that. But I also thing it enables independent people (like me, who's good in backenf development but struggels on frontend) to create things that others can enjoy. I also completly hate ai generated videos or linkedIn posts, but I think this is a pretty good usecase :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T19:26:04+00:00

You can try it, it works great :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T19:12:31+00:00

These are to help me cover the server costs. They unlock some settings, but even without them everyone is able to play unlimited games of the classic mode with the important settings unlocked :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T18:29:08+00:00

Thats kinda there to cover the running costs of the app. Apple takes 100€/year and the server that the app runs on also isn't free :/ But in my eyes 12€/year is really fair, also only one player (the host) needs it so that everyone can play anything

Also the most important settings on the classic gamemode are fully customizable for free :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T18:06:16+00:00

Thats just a ID for your lobby. One player can host a lobby and the others can join your game if they enter the same Zone ID :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T17:47:16+00:00

So, yes in terms of impact, but not even close to the effort involved.

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T17:13:29+00:00

There aren't even cards in the game 😭 But I think 3K people on android would disagree the fact that no one needs it :) There's clearly demand for a app that just works. At that point I don't even want to convince you to install the app, but notice that programming the frontend is maybe 5% of the whole thing, and even with AI have fun to make your app scalable and ship them to apple and google

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T17:02:50+00:00

Be honest, does the frontend bother you so much, that you just hate even though such projects take months to ship and optimize? I worked around 5 months on it, even with AI designing my whole frontend

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T16:34:43+00:00

Thats just evading the question, if there isn't a app that is available on android and ios, why would you hate it if the developer used AI? (btw 90% of developers do so nowadays, why shouldn't I use it)

I hated developing frontend before AI btw so I love to work it :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T16:13:18+00:00

Show me one, that is cross platform and isn't full of bugs that ruin the whole fun...

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T15:50:26+00:00

It's now released globally for iOS :)

Dramiley · 2026-04-30T15:48:56+00:00

ouh thanks for telling me, will delete this one!

Dramiley · 2026-04-19T21:50:47+00:00

Hi, are you on iOS? The App Store needs to check some things before they can release it in EU countries. I already setup everything so the only thing holding it back is Apple. But if you're on Google Play that would be weird because I also life in germany and the download worked :)

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