FAQ

When you first install the game, Throwdown Champs will ask for permissions to access certain bits of your health data – primarily workout information – so it can use it to make the game work.

If you didn't give it permissions, or if something went wrong – just go to your iPhone's Settings app, scroll down until you see an entry for 'Health', tap it, then tap 'Data Access & Devices', then tap 'Champs', and then tap 'Turn On All'. That should be that!

You'll get a chance to remind yourself of who you are when you first play the game. After that, if you beam yourself out of the game, force a reload by purging the app from memory, and restart, you'll see yourself tumbling down the wormhole to Liminalia as the game loads. Here, tap the 'edit' button to tweak your details!

Your in-game 'you' has their own mobile phone, and in Liminalia, mobiles run an operating system called fitOS. Just tap on something in the Liminal Gym, and then swipe up on the top edge of your in-game mobile. fitOS will show you more details about whatever it is you tapped. Go to fitOS Home by swiping up when nothing's selected; here you'll be able to buy things, check out Gophers, make a PhaseTime call, and more.

We think that 'Dragon Drop' is probably a corruption of 'drag and drop', the term changing as talk of the legendary power of humans in Liminalia got passed down over generations. Drag and drop:

• a Champ onto You to digitise them onto fitOS.
  
• You onto a Champ to chat with them.
  
• a Champ or You onto a piece of Equipment to train, smash, or upgrade.
  

And lots more!

Make sure nothing's selected, and then swipe up on your in-game mobile to go to fitOS Home. Tap to go to the Equipment Shop, the Supp Shop, or the Premium Shop. Stock rotates on a daily basis. To buy something, simply drag and drop it from fitOS right into the Liminal Gym. Most items cost Gold, which you'll earn and win as you beat workouts and complete challenges. Some powerful items need Muxels, though, and that's a premium currency. You can buy Muxels for real money in the Premium Shop. But – so long as you don't have a negative amount of Muxels, we'll let you spend what you need to get what you want. Just pay it back before spending more!

Tap You, and go to fitOS. You'll see that when you're selected, there are a number of Digitisation Slots shown in fitOS. To digitise a Champ, you'll need an available Digitisation Slot. Just drag and drop a Champ onto You, and they'll get digitised into fitOS. To reworld them, simply tap on You, invoke fitOS, and Dragon Drop them right back into Liminalia.

You've heard of Trophies and Achievements, right? Well, Gophers are the Throwdown Champs version of those. Do certain things, or accrue enough time, say, training, and you'll complete Gophers and earn rewards.

I am not expecting these to localise well.

At the bottom of the screen are three main 'mode' buttons – train, upgrade, and smash. These control what happens when you drag and drop a Champ onto a piece of equipment. With 'train' selected, and with enough Sweat, your Champ starts to train on that bit of gear. With 'upgrade' selected, and enough Gold, they'll improve it. And with 'smash' selected, they'll do a workout specific to that equipment – a smash! With the equipment selected, fitOS will show you what the smashes are. Complete them to unlock new variants of that piece of equipment!

If you keep buying stuff... yeah. But we've probably thought of that.

Supps are supplements, and over in Liminalia they can have a variety of effects. Some allow you to instantly finish sessions, whereas others will reduce the price of upgrades. Some trigger BEAST MODE, whilst others improve Sweat-earning potential.

After buying a Supp through fitOS, Dragon Drop any Champ onto it to pick it up. Then, depending on what you got, select the right thing (so a Champ for BEAST MODE, or You for a whole-squad Supp), go to fitOS, and tap to activate.

There are rumours of a super-special Supp that doesn't act quite like the others... 🤔

It is – or at least, was – Liminalia's foremost health and fitness spot. Over the course of many millennia, though, it's fallen into disrepair. Humbert's realised that it might be just the thing that he and his ragtag bunch of misunderstood baddies might need to improve their outlook, their mental health, and their lifestyles.

Surely the arrival of a human – there hasn't been one of those around here since the Old Times – can only bode well, right? Particularly one with such a positive go-getting attitude. Here's hopin'!

Each Champ's fitness is dictated by ten fitness sub-types – like strength, cardiovascular endurance, agility, and more. As your Champs train, you'll see the impact on their subtypes, and they'll get fitter. As they get fitter, they'll complete workouts faster, be less affected by fatigue, and be able to perform tougher and more technical movements.

Each movement that your Champs perform has a unique fitness fingerprint – so, for example, a deadlift depends far more on strength and power than does running. Different Champs with differing levels of fitness will perform each movement faster or slower. Plus, their Recovery level may blunt their performance. You can choose the intensity level with which they tackle a given workout – but set it too high and they'll fatigue faster and need to stop to get their breath back.

Much as with training and performing in the real world, there's a lot to balance.

Training in the Liminal Gym costs Sweat. And the only way to earn Sweat is to take Champs out exercising with you, in the real world. So long as you have a free Digitisation Slot in fitOS, just Dragon Drop a Champ onto You to digitise them. Then tap and hold You to beam back to the real world. Next up – capture a workout using whatever fitness app or wearable you're already using. Although Apple calls them 'workouts', they can be any sort of exercise or movement. We just want to encourage you to get out there and move around. Once you've finished, and you've made sure that HealthKit has updated itself with the activitiy you did, just beam back into the Liminal Gym to see how much Sweat you can bank. Each Champ is good for doing one workout with you. And highly recovered Champs gather more Sweat than knackered ones!