Chess Me Outside

Coming soon

Coming to the App Store and Google Play

Free, on iOS and Android, at launch. Until then the test build is the way in, and most of the map is still grey.

Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play

Before launch

Play it first

The TestFlight build

The iOS build goes out through TestFlight, Apple's own testing app. Install TestFlight, open the link, and the game lands next to your other apps with the whole map of the Netherlands in it.

The tester group

Testers talk in one WhatsApp group. It is where a bug becomes a fix in a day rather than a week. A group shows your phone number to the others in it; mail support@chessmeoutside.com to test without it.

TestFlight link, the moment the build is up

WhatsApp invite, once the group is open

What you are signing up for

  • An unfinished build. Things break, and the map can be reset while we fix them.
  • Telling us when it breaks. A screenshot plus where you were standing is a full bug report.
  • Walking. Every challenge starts at a monument, and the only one you can play from the couch is one you saved while standing there.
  • Staying installed for a while. The Android test needs twelve people running the app for fourteen days in a row before it can reach the Play Store.

This page collects nothing

No form, no mailing list, no address of yours stored anywhere. The TestFlight link and the group invite do the same job and leave no personal data with us.

Before you install

  • LocationRead while the app is open, so it can tell you are standing at a monument. Never in the background, and other players never see where you are.
  • PriceFree. Everything you have in the game, you won.
  • Pay-to-winDoes not exist. Money never buys playing strength or a rating.
  • AccountE-mail and password. No advertising in the app.
  • AgeThirteen and up. Between 13 and 15 a parent or guardian agrees first, which Dutch privacy law requires.
  • WhereThe Netherlands. Elsewhere the map has no monuments on it yet.

Keep your head up out there

This game sends you into the real world. Look around you rather than at your screen, play the challenge standing still, and do not go anywhere you are not supposed to be.