Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nianticproject.ingress
Main URL: http://www.ingress.com/
Status (29/11/2012): Closed Beta
So, Google releases an app for the android devices that is an MMO. Two factions, one map: EARTH!
While the game is original enough, I can see a very high similarity between the mobile phone with the app installed and Star Trek's tricorder, so I think we could see something in the lines of that in the future. Digressing aside, these are my impressions of this (without having a key, sadly... -.-U):
- This might be launched on january, shortly after the first Google's "project Glass" reaches the independent developers.
- A "comuter game" that makes you go out and walk or run! Wii on the cheap, or even healthiest?
- Cheap Mistery Excuse: the two factions (one that wants to use what they find, the other wanting to keep it securely contained) have a conflict... using misteriously anomalies who just started showing up from nowhere without any warning.
Ideas that come to my mind about the game:
- It will be free to play, but there will be advertising in the AR system (for example, publicity walls replaced by AR ads, or even floating ads in our screen).
- The system will gather a lot of data about us thanks to our "photoshooting", where do we capture "portals" and the GPS. It will also flesh up Google Maps, maybe.
What are your thoughts?
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Augmented Reality: Ingress
Thu, 2012-11-29 03:57
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Augmented Reality: Ingress