Use the Draft Wherigo Player

This describes how you may use the draft implementation of a Wherigo Player inside c:geo. Note that this player is under heavy development. Many things are still missing and its functionality may change rapidly w/o further announcement.

Enable Wherigo Player

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• Use c:geo based on a master branch version later than 24.2.2024 around 13:10 german time (commit https://github.com/cgeo/cgeo/commit/38497548741208f93124c0300d7037a50bcf9303)
• Enable Player: Via c:geo Settings, go to System -> View Settings, enable Setting editing, add a setting feature_wherigo of type boolean, set this setting to true
• After enabling you may access the wherigo player as follows:
  • Quick Launch Button: Go to Settings -> Appearance -> Quick Launch Buttons. Drag & Drop the Entry Wherigo into the Active Element section. After this you can access the player by using the new quick launch button on your main screen.
  • Custom Menu Item: Go to Settings -> Appearance -> Custom Menu Item, choose Wherigo in the list of provided items. After this you can access the player by using the new rightmost navigation button Wherigo.
• Optional: you may add a second boolean setting feature_wherigo_debug to enable/disable wherigo debug mode

Download a Wherigo Game

Player does not yet support download of cartridges. For now you have to do this yourself via Wherigo website:

• Navigate to https://wherigo.com/
• Log in with your gc.com account
• Search the wherigo you want to play and open its detail page
• Use the Download button to download the cartridge. Use the Pocket PC Device version (usually the selected default). The downloaded file should end in .gwc
• Place this file on your Android device in the subfolder wherigo under your default c:geo folder (this folder should have been created after you enabled c:geo for wherigo, probably after a c:geo restart)

Start a Wherigo Game

To start a game:

• Go to the Wherigo Player in c:geo using either Quick Launch BUtton or Custom Menu Item
• Click the Open action icon (should be the only enabled action on the wherigo player page anyway)
• c:geo will list all available cartridge files in folder wherigo. Select one.
• If save games are available, c:geo will ask for selection of either New Game or one of the save games

Play a Wherigo Game

After starting a Wherigo Game:

• The wherigo player activity will show available Tasks, Zones, Actions. You can select them there to interact with them.
• If you use unified map, you will see visible zones on it as red polygons from now on
• If you trigger a wherigo action (e.g. by stepping into a zone) then corresponding wherigo dialogs will pop up wherever you are in c:geo for you to interact

Use the wherigo player activity save icon to save a game. You will be asked to select a name for it. This will become part of the savefile name. Wherigo player also does autosaving in a file called autosave

Use the wherigo player activiy cancel icon to abort a running game.