While inspired by Tamagotchi and Pokemon Go, the Walken app's user interface and experience has been engineered to appeal to young and old alike. Their easy to understand interface guides users to easily grasp the basic concepts, so that as they advance in earning and play, users can expose more advanced functionality when they are comfortbale.
Their early testing revealed, that it was important for us to layer the exposure to functionality little by little rather than all at once. Walken uses the movement detection capabilities of standard smartphones and wearable devices to capture the step counts of users. They also utilize sophisticated algorithms and tools provided by to prevent cheating.