* In-game calorie counter added.
* TDEE calculator added.
* BMR calculator added.
* Glitch where the song titles turned grey in colour after pausing or viewing a tutorial is now fixed.
* Added a 'Quick Start' panel for new players to start navigating around.
Through player feedback, Punished_Slick_Rat suggested that an in-game calorie counter be added. A great idea, so this is implemented now.
A TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure) calculator and a BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate) calculator have also been added. This is currently not linked up to anything else in the game, but extra features will be added in the future which will use these calculations.
More updates and improvements are on the way. Thank you for all your ideas and support.
Cheers,
Kevin :)
Extra Info:
As you already know, a lot of calorie counters are tweaked on exercise machines to show a higher than normal reading to sell more machines than their competitors. None of that marketing nonsense with this calorie counter - it straight up shows you as accurately as possible how many calories you are burning based off of what your weight is.
To give players confidence that I am trying to make this is a legit calorie calculator with no exaggerations, I want to be fully transparent on how it was put together.
Each exercise's MET number (a measure of exercise intensity based off of oxygen consumption) was researched and coded in. Jumping jacks have a MET rating of 8, burpees a rating of 10, crunches have a rating of 5, and a light walk has a MET rating of 2, for example.
I used this equation:
Physical activity in minutes x (MET x 3.5 x player weight in KGs / 200)
No calorie counter is totally accurate of course and a player's body composition can change the outcome. Someone with more lean body mass will burn more calories than someone who does not have the same amount of lean body mass, but are at the same weight, for example. However, I hope it is as accurate and as simple as possible for the task, without players having to buy body calipers etc.