Redstreak 6,653 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Pokémon GO was recently announced for mobile devices, giving fans the ability to capture and battle Pokémon in the real world with augmented reality. The upcoming mobile game will allow players to simulate elements of the Pokémon games in real life, and one of the most important elements in Pokémon is Gym battles. Each game centers around collecting eight Gym badges, so many fans have been asking if Pokémon GO will include gyms. John Hanke and Mike Quigley, respectively the chief executive and chief marketing officer of Pokémon GO developer Niantic, recently sat down for an interview with Venture Beat. They shared lots of exciting details about the upcoming game, including the confirmation that you'll be able to take on Gyms. GamesBeat: How do you plan to handle the distribution of different items and things in the game? Hanke: Our goal is to make it so you can walk out of the house and within five minutes, you can find Pokémon. It may not be the most rare Pokémon in the world, but there’ll be a population of Pokémon living near all our players. Gyms will be a bit more rare. You want to find gyms so you can level up your Pokémon and battle there, so it will take a little more effort to get there. Pokémon will live in different parts of the world depending on what type of Pokémon they are. Water Pokémon will live near the water. It may be that certain Pokémon will only exist in certain parts of the world. Very rare Pokémon may exist in very few places. But you can trade. If you live in a place with lots of water Pokémon and you come to an event — we have these Ingress events that are getting bigger and bigger. We’ll have our biggest weekend ever on Saturday. We’ll have events for Pokémon as well. Those are competitive, but they can also be places to trade stuff with other players. Pokémon trading is going to be huge. You can’t get all of them by yourself. If you want all of them you’ll have to trade with other players. Or you have to be someone who takes time off work and travels the world for a year. There may be people who do that. Pokémon GO is one step closer to that "Pokémon in real life" experience with the confirmation of Gyms. If you're worried that finding Pokémon and Gyms will be challenging because you come from a small town, Niantic has addressed that concern, pointing to their success with Ingress. Hanke: We’ve learned a lot on those fronts with Ingress. Even if you’re in a small town — I grew up in a town of 1,000 people in Texas. We had that as a design goal. If we’re going to build a game that works with location, it has to be fun for people anywhere to play, in small towns as well as San Francisco. If we designed something that only worked in San Francisco, it wouldn’t be a real success. We wanted it to work globally. - See more at: http://www.gamnesia.com/news/niantic-confirms-that-pokemon-go-will-feature-gyms#sthash.7Nx7DhNg.dpuf Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust~ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicaSkas 22,580 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Ahhhh how exciting! Do YOU own the 4' by 6' Perfect Illusion promo Poster? Will pay you for it. Pic: http://i.imgur.com/UWuzumk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Omg YAS! ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockPop 7,747 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'm unbelievably excited for this. I actually think it may take over my life. Eagerly awaiting my encounter with Jynx in a nightclub toilet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 104,181 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE SO MUCH. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChicaSkas 22,580 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I think it could be detrimental. I will love it so much I will spend hours on it. What if I could encounter pokemon in my own house, like Rattatas and Joltiks or Spinaraks or something...! Do YOU own the 4' by 6' Perfect Illusion promo Poster? Will pay you for it. Pic: http://i.imgur.com/UWuzumk Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creyk 17,541 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 This doesn't excite me at all. Just announce Z already. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodeckDanny 2,418 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I will hunt Magmar I hope he is somewhere in Europe. Listen to my debut pop single 'Want You Bad'! (link on Insta) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LORD GAGA 1,271 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Hyped af. Do we know when it'll be out specifically? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redstreak 6,653 Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 On 12/20/2015 at 10:39 PM, RF said: Hyped af. Do we know when it'll be out specifically? Expand Not yet. Just spring 2016 Take a moment to think of just flexibility, love, and trust~ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haroon 49,685 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Ooooooh this sounds way more fun now Sucks that I like water Pokemon and there's no water near me I like the trading aspect of it though, really brings the whole thing to life with the whole geographical location exclusive and stuff On 12/20/2015 at 9:40 PM, ShockPop said: Eagerly awaiting my encounter with Jynx in a nightclub toilet. Expand LOOOOOOOOOOOOL My poor spat out Fanta Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 107,184 Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Is it possible to find Entei in McDonalds? Looking forward. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝒹𝒾𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝗠𝗔𝗬𝗛𝗘𝗠 (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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