![]() The whole game is a scavenger hunt! That is the spirit of the Pokémon GO - adventuring and exploring the unknown world. People have to go out and interact with the real landmarks and navigate the maps to find treasures and monsters. Location-based gaming (LBG) is the key factor for the success of Pokémon GO. The AR (taking nice photos with your Pokémon in some fancy places) is a nice function, but it also drains the battery quickly and does not have significant impact for the gaming experiences. My opinion is different since I turned off the AR function in the Pokémon GO since Day One. Many news articles emphasized that AR is one of the major key factors that make this game so popular. There are many innovative design components in Pokémon GO, including virtual geocaching, location-based gaming, hyperlocal mapping, and augmented reality (AR). The Geography of Pokémon GO: Location, Location, Location! Yelp review will add an important category: does this café have a PokeStop nearby?ģ. Tourism companies can utilize their local landmarks to build a half-day or one day PokeStop trip for visitors. Customers will get special discounts or a free drink when they utilized Lure Modules to attract Pokemons and players to the stores. Restaurants, gas stations, and shopping malls can request for more PokeStops or Gyms nearby their stores by paying a premium fee to the game company. There are many business opportunities linking Pokemon GO with location-based services (LBS). ![]() ![]() Before this, I have never spent any dollars on any mobile app in my smart phone in the last five years. When you are out of Poké Balls, you will be so desperate to use your credit card to buy some balls, since you don’t want to miss any chance on catching a rare Pokémon when it shows up on your map! So far, I have spent $50 during the first six weeks after I played the game. I am among the million players who started to spend money to buy Lucky Eggs at Day One. The game itself is free, but players can buy Poké Balls, Incense (to attract Pokémons), Lucky Eggs (double your experiences – XP), Lure Modules, and other devices to enhance their game experiences. But it has become the most successful mobile game in both Android and iOS around the whole world and is making tons of money now. Pokémon GO is a free game for everyone to download and play. The major differences between the Hunger Games and Pokémon Go is that players in the latter have the freedom to join or leave the game - fortunately.Ģ. ![]() You probably already read many similar stories in the News about this type of “Flash Mobs” due to the Pokémon GO game. Hundreds of people will gather together in the middle of the night at some parks to chase very rare or mystical types of Pokémons, such as Dragonite or Snorlax. In Pokémon Go, the “algorithm” on the PokémonGO server plays the exact same role as the “gamemaker” to select different places for the habitats of different Pokémons. The “Gamemaker” in Hunter Games can place any items or animals to attract or attack participants in the game. In this hybrid real-and-virtual world, three tribes (Yellow, Blue, and Red teams) are competing against each other to occupy “Gyms” and collect their supplies via “PokéStops”. After three days of playing, I realized that this game has a lot of similar features comparing to the famous movie/novel, the Hunger Games. The design of this mobile game utilized several key GIS technologies, including Google maps, Points of Interest (POIs), GPS tracking, buffering (accessing PokéStops), geo-fencing, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) (to create PokéStops and Gyms based from the previous game, called Ingress), land use classification (for locating different types of Pokémons in different regions, such as water fronts, beaches, forests, or parks) and time geography (such as taking 5 minutes to be able to re-spin a PokéStop, or designing the best route to visit most PokéStops within 30 mins using your Lucky Egg). This game is very addictive, especially when you have some GIS knowledge to play with it. My Pokémon Go adventure started on Jwhen I was traveling in London (six days after the company, Niantic, Inc., officially released this game in U.S. ![]()
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