How to Play
Climb up and down outdoor staircases. The map shows nearby staircases as castles. You will hear a fanfare each time reach the top or bottom. Location accuracy varies so you may have to go a little past the marked destination.
Repeat the same stairs each week to earn increasing bonuses.
The scroll tells you where you are and what you should do next. The eye button changes the camera angle. The castle button changes the location status filter.
Tap on a castle to see the location leaderboard. Kingdom status is color coded as follows:
Blue: newly acquired location
Grey: revisited location from last week
Red: location from last week you have not completed this week
Yellow: Partially completed location
White: unvisited location
Green: private location (only you can see it)
Your progress isn’t logged to the server or leaderboards until you press ‘CHECKIN’.
Be sure to checkin before Wednesday at 7PM to get all your rollovers calculated. The first time you checkin after that time you will be notified of leaderboards and payouts.
Etiquette
Bring a friend for safety. Any exercize has risk of repetitive stress or injury. Take your time, don’t over do it and listen to your body. Always be extra courtious around the neighborhood and neighbors. Wear a yellow safety vest, bad guys never wear a safety vest. Yield if someone needs to pass and don’t be pushy in a crowd. Step aside if you need to look at your phone. Bring a bag to pickup trash. Don’t taunt or try to grief any other players. Don’t use developer features to spoof or bot with your account. Cheating only cheats yourself, the advertisers, the developer, all the other players, and the robot.
Scoring
You get one silver for each logged step, this is your base score. Each time you repeat steps at a location you get that many iron the first week, double the second week, triple the third and so on until you miss a week. Then you are back to ZERO. Iron will be used to shop for leaderboard bling, consumables, and real-life rewards.
Challenges
To challenge another player enter their Challenge Id. You get one for free.
The current challenge level is 100 steps. If both the challenger and the challenged complete 100 steps they each earn 100 gold the first week, 200 the second and so on, falling back to zero if either party doesn’t complete a week. Multiple challenges can be fulfilled by the same 100 steps, so if you were in ten completed challenges you would earn 1000 gold the first week, then 1000 higher each week with only the 100 steps climbed.
Add Locations
To add a location you need to take with the app a photo from the top and bottom of the stairs. The location will be logged with each photo. Count the steps and title the location. The cancel button will change to say ‘submit’ if you have everything you need.
Only you can see and play at a location until it is approved by a curator.
For a location to be approved it must be an outdoor staircase with a public accessable sidewalk or road at each end and more than 9 steps.
Stairs leading to residences and businesses will not be approved. If there are a few sets of similar stairs in the same area, just submit the longest one.
Coming Soon
Accessiblity for visually impaired
Generic fitness tracking device integation
Watch app
Buy, gift or donate sporting goods products with your gold
Purchase additional challenges