Android

Android is the operating system of various mobile and tablet devices. Manufactured under many different brands and model names, these devices are distributed by various companies. Prices, technical specifications, version numbers/names and other such details vary widely.

This article documents versions of the WolfQuest app on this operating system where available.

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition is not currently available on mobile/tablet devices. There are no estimates as to when it will be available. Please be patient and do not ask! We can't answer!

Teaser shown on the official WQ social groups.

WolfQuest: Classic was released as an Android port on September 16, 2016. The game required a device with a fairly powerful graphics chip and at least 1.5GB of RAM. Note that on some low-power graphics chips, the terrain is pixelated in certain areas due to their limited power, and performance may fare poorer overall.

Legacy versions of WolfQuest never received a mobile port.

Pricing

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

Not yet available on mobile and tablet platforms. Pricing remains unknown.

The Classic app itself was freely available to download as a Free Trial. This costs nothing and features the first level of the game to play and has basic wolf customizations unlocked from the start. If the player liked the game, they could choose to purchase the complete game to unlock the second level of the game featuring pups, multiplayer and an additional all-new map to own the full game, thereby giving them more to do.

In-App Purchases

In-App Purchases, commonly abbreviated to IAP, is a pay-to-play model used to distribute optional extra features. What's available varies depending on the game being played and its platform, ranging from purely cosmetic/aesthetic content (offering no in-game benefits other than vanity) up to larger projects such as maps and expansions. Revenue earned from these sales helps to fund the game for continued development.

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

Main article: In-App Purchases#Anniversary Edition

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Main article: In-App Purchases#Classic

Classic utilises in-app purchases to distribute optional extras within its integrated Shop panel on the Main Menu. Refer to the main article for further details and information!

On the 28^th of December 2014, Dave confirmed that 2.7 would feature in-app purchases. This is a logical decision due to the team having used their own resources to fund the game post-Legacy development.

As of July 6^th 2023, transactions for Classic in-app purchases were taken offline following the end of life announcement. New transactions in the Shop interface can no longer be made, however users who have previously made in-app transactions before this date may still be able to restore previous purchases.

Technical

See also: WolfQuest:Troubleshooting.

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

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The Classic app reached its end-of-life on July 6^th 2023. A notice was published by loboLoco on the Official WolfQuest Discord server via the #announcements channel. A transcript of the message for on-site archival:

“	End of Life for WolfQuest 2.7 for Android Due to new technical requirements by Google, WolfQuest for Android has reached its end of life and has been removed from the Google Play Store, and multiplayer is now disabled. The single-player game will continue to work for players who have already downloaded it and purchased in-app products, and they'll be able to download it again if necessary (with the same Google account.) For the time being, WQ 2.7 on iOS is still available and both single-player and multiplayer are still functional, as is the Mac/Windows version. We apologize for these changes, but technology marches on and with code dating back to 2007, it's no longer possible to keep the Android app updated.	”
—loboLoco

Following this announcement, the app was pulled from the app store and it no longer appears in search results. It can no longer be downloaded. It can still be redownloaded only if it has previously been downloaded prior to the end of life via the user's Google Play Library. This has no effect on other platforms, only Android devices at the time of this edit.

The Classic app may not be supported on devices released since 2012 and devices with small screens (such as smartphones) may not be officially supported. 

Features & Improvements

General:

• User accounts with achievements, friends lists, packs, and messaging.

Wolf Avatar:

• Furry coats on all wolves
• Ten new coat colors (based on two realworld Yellowstone packs)
• Ten injured coats (using new coats from Yellowstone packs)
• Seven new howls
• Other special customizations: radio collar, injured ears, injured leg, and more
• New emotes and emotes interface: Growl, whine, tail up, ears forward, grin, tail under and avert gaze

Main Gameplay:

• Difficulty levels determine frequency of elk carcasses and degree of challenge of raising and protecting pups.
• Elk and wolf scent is affected by wind direction, so players must pay attention to wind to find scent trails and to approach elk from downwind.
• Bull elk and strong female elk stand and defend themselves rather than fleeing.• Dispersal wolves (potential mates) become available based on player XP.
• Grizzly bears can sometimes be chased off of carcasses. Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya?
• Emotes to express yourself to your packmates.
• Hundreds of bugfixes, including puppy-coat color inheritance, getting stuck near water, elk health bar displays, and private game unreliability.

New Animals:

• Cougars roaming the wilderness, feeding on carcasses, and lounging on rocks
• Foxes roaming the wilderness and mousing
• Ravens feeding on carcasses

AI

• Improved AI behaviors for all animals
• Elk and AI wolves are smarter about avoiding obstacles

Environment

• More ambient sounds (distant wolf packs howling,
• Dawn Chorus of birds at dawn, frogs in Slough Creek springtime, distant elk bugling in Amethyst, and more)
• Greatly enhanced 3D environments, especially on Mac/Windows versions

Multiplayer: 

• Multiplayer switched to Photon back-end for more robust MP sessions.
• Slough Creek co-op mission: up to five players can play as parent and older offspring. Includes the entire arc of this level, from finding a den to the final journey to the Rendezvous site.
• Public and private games have text chat (filtered only through naughty words list)
• Private games also have voice chat.
• Up to eight players in multiplayer games (five on mobile platforms)
• Integrated, in-game reporting system.

New Map: 

• A new map, "Lost River", to explore in both singleplayer and multiplayer modes

Information sourced from wolfquest.org • New features in WQ 2.7. See references for used sources and further reading.

Gallery

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

Anniversary Edition Gallery

Contributions for the Android platform in the Anniversary Edition are welcome in this gallery!

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Classic Gallery

Contributions for the Android platform in Classic are welcome in this gallery!

In-game End Of Life notice

Pre-Release

This gallery houses pre-release teasers and early previews. They are sample from developer's blogs and videos posted by the developers.

Puppy with more realistic fur- note the "fuzzy" rendering.

More 'fuzz' fur rendering on display with this pack teaser.

New game level: two waterfalls- note the wolf's modified tail and shadow.

Wolf Customization: radio collar #1

Wolf Customization: radio collar #2

Indev mark territory button (tablet version only).

Wolf Customization: New coats and injured ears

Coat Pack 1 - based on the Lamar Canyon Pack<ref>wolfquest.org • New version: Pictures and more.

WolfQuest New wolf coats and howls -- coming in version 2.7!

2.7 Customization Interface preview

All coats as shown in a poll to decide the "Life is Rough" pack, also showcasing some model improvements.

Nose scar for the Life is Rough Pack, as teased here.

Two possible scars.

Sneak peek at the Life is Rough Pack.

Welcome to (the) Lost River!

Limpy

A wolf customization with an injured rear leg.

Source: New version: Pictures and more. Note that only one of the three "mark territory" buttons will be used in the final version.

Bugs

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

Anniversary Edition Bugs

Classic Bugs

• Avoid exiting the game during loading screens. This can cause an incomplete load, causing some or all of the models and/or terrain to appear black/textureless. (Depends on when the app was suspended.)

Trivia

• Anniversary Edition
• Classic
• Legacy

Anniversary Edition Trivia

Classic Trivia