New in version 0.7.0
SPRAWL//RUN speaks Spanish: the interface, spoken splits, notifications and all three campaigns. The language follows the phone or is set in Settings. Story lines are spoken in a Spanish voice where the phone has one, otherwise in English. Community packs can carry their own translations.
Fixed: packs and backups with accented letters import intact; the narrator no longer hangs on a stuck speech engine; text no longer breaks up into streaks on some phones.
Your running app should not be a spreadsheet. It should be chasing you.
SPRAWL//RUN is a gamified running tracker wrapped around two ten-mission cyberpunk campaigns. In Sprawl Prime you are a courier in a rain-slick megacity: a job on the Ninsei strip turns into carrying something that will not stop transmitting, and ends forty floors up a corporate arcology with an intelligence that has spent nineteen years counting a heartbeat that was not there. In Null Tide the southern districts are under water, something in a pump house has been apologising for nine seconds a night, and a salvage broker needs a piece of paper carried across the Drowned Mile before the sea comes home.
Bring whatever you normally listen to. Every few minutes the app takes over the audio: a radio squelch, your music drops out, and your handler talks. Then it hands your music back. Eleven characters across the story packs, each with a distinct synthesised voice, so you know who is speaking with the phone in your pocket.
SOMEBODY IS CHASING YOU
A drone tags your gait. Collections kick in a clinic door. A corporate trace walks the cooling loop toward you. To escape you have to beat your own pace from the last three minutes — never an arbitrary number, so a pursuit is a genuine effort whether you run 4:00/km or 7:00/km, and impossible at neither. Switch them off if you would rather just run.
YOU SET THE TARGET
Before each mission, choose a time or a distance. Twelve minutes or twenty-one kilometres — the story paces itself to fit. Reach the target and the operation succeeds; stop short and it stays open for another attempt. Overshoot freely, it all counts.
THE CITY CARRIES ON WITHOUT YOU
Your handler can get in touch between runs, on the days and at the hour you choose, in the voice of the campaign you are playing and about the operation waiting for you. Switch on signal noise as well and the world talks whether or not you are listening: a fixer with a rumour, a tide reading, an advisory from an authority that would rather you stayed indoors. Silent, never overnight, as often or as rarely as you like.
EVERY OCTOBER, THE DEAD COME BACK ONLINE
From 10 October to All Souls the city dresses for it: the neon turns to pumpkin and violet, a graveyard rises on the skyline under a low moon, ghosts drift across the screen and the sound effects take on bells and whispers. A four-run operation opens for the season only, Samhain Protocol, about a courier three years dead whose last delivery is still on the board. Unfinished, it waits for next October. One switch in Settings turns the whole thing off.
EVERYTHING IT DOES
- Twenty missions across two campaigns, paced to whatever target you pick
- Seasonal events: a Halloween look, sound and four-mission operation from 10 October to 2 November, switchable off
- Pursuits scaled to your own pace from the last three minutes, or switched off
- Each kilometre or mile read out with its split and your total time — between scenes on a mission
- Eleven synthesised voices that duck your music and hand it back
- Pause, resume or stop from the notification, with a reminder if a run sits paused; a run keeps going if you swipe the app away, and is kept even if the app is killed
- Handler reminders on your own schedule, plus optional ambient signal noise
- The wire: every message, run, cleared operation, achievement and piece of intel in one stream, which a tapped notification opens straight into; a dot on its icon says a signal came in since you last looked
- A Sunday-evening debrief reading your week back against your own target, in the same voice — switchable off
- 69 achievements across seven categories, plus a weekly streak you set yourself in minutes, kilometres or missions — an unfinished week never breaks it
- Distance, time, calories and cleared missions by week and month, with per-day bars and your full run log
- The long view: earlier weeks and months, distance per month since your first run, every day you ran as a dot
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New in version 0.6.0
SAMHAIN PROTOCOL: every year from 10 October to 2 November the city dresses for the dead. Pumpkin and violet neon, a graveyard on the skyline under a low moon, ghosts at the edge of the screen, candles round every unlock, and sound effects that toll and whisper. A four-run operation opens for the season only, with its own handlers cutting in between runs and five seasonal achievements. Unfinished, it waits for next October. Settings → Run → Seasonal events turns it all off.
A run left paused is
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THE WIRE: every message your handler sent, every run, cleared operation, achievement and piece of intel in one stream, newest first. A tapped notification opens straight onto its message; a line that arrived at 02:00 and was swiped away is still there to read.
A Sunday-evening debrief reads your week back against your own target, in the voice of the campaign you are playing. On by default, one message a week, switchable off.
Kilometre (or mile) splits read out with the split and your total tim
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