Pokemon Go | What is Pokemon Go? | Everything you need to know about Pokemon Go!

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Introduction


Pokémon Go is a free to play augmented reality mobile game developed by Niantic and published by Pokémon Company as part of the Pokémon franchise. The game was release on July, 2016 and now is available for free download on both Android and iOS devices.
The game allows players to capture, battle and train virtual creatures called Pokémon that appear throughout the real world.
The game uses device’s camera, GPS and clock to detect the location of device and what time it is in a game which increases the funny of it. And as you move around to different places while playing the game different ‘Pokémon’ appear depending on the location of your device and the time.

The environment or background of the game varies depending on your location and the time, for instance if you go near lakes or ocean you will find water types environment and Pokémon, and if you go out at night you will find fairy and ghost types. The game’s background represents virtually your current location and let you find the nearby Pokémon.


Pokemon Go imitates the environment of your location


The game has become popular after few weeks of its release surpassing the record that was held by ‘Candy Crush saga’ as the most used smart devices apps in the United States. The goal of the game is to collect as many virtual creatures as you can which looks like snakes, rats, dragons, dinosaurs, fish, eggs or trees.

An optional companion Bluetooth wearable device the Pokémon Go plus is now available to alert players when the Pokémon are nearby. The device connects to a smartphone via Bluetooth and notifies the player about events in the game, such as the appearance of a Pokémon nearby using an LED and vibration.

Pokémon Go plus


When a Pokémon is close, the light on the Pokémon Go plus will flash. It will also flash and vibrate when you pass a Pokémon. Once a Pokémon is close, press the button on the Pokémon Go Plus to throw a Poke’ ball. And you will only be able to throw a ball using a Pokémon Go plus if you have caught the Pokémon before. The Pokémon Go Plus will flash and vibrate to let you know that you have your catch.

Although the game has received positive comments from medical personnel that it enhance and improves physical and mental well-being of the players, there have been reports of causing accidents.


How to play the game


After logging into the app for the first, the player creates an avatar. The player can choose style, hair, skin and eye color from different number of outfits for their avatar. The created avatar along with the player’s immediate surroundings will be displayed at the player’s current location.  Features on the map includes a number of PokéStops and Pokémon gyms and are located at different areas such as public art installations, historical markers, historic buildings and other memorials, public parks and fountains, places of worship and other points of cultural significance.
As you move while playing, the avatar moves along the game’s map. When a player encounters a Pokémon they may view it in either an augmented reality (AR) mode or with a pre-rendered background.

AR mode uses the device’s camera and gyroscope to display image of Pokémon as though it were in the real world. Also a player can take pictures of the Pokémon they encounter using an in-game camera both with and without the AR mode activated.
To capture a Pokémon, the player may throw a Poké Ball at it. If the Pokémon is successfully caught it will come under the ownership of the player. Factors in the success rate of capture include the right force, the right time and the type of Poké Ball used.

Candies and stardust are the in-game currencies used to award the player after capturing a wild Pokémon. The candies awarded by a successful catch depends on what evolutionary chain a Pokémon belongs to. A player can use stardust and candies to raise a Pokémon's "combat power" (CP). However, only candies are needed to evolve a Pokémon. Each Pokémon evolution tree has its own type of candy which can only be used to evolve or level up. The player can also transfer the Pokémon back to the Pokémon professor to earn one more candy and create room for more Pokémon.

The goal of the game is to complete the entries in the Pokédex by capturing and evolving to obtain 151 Pokémon.


Players earn experience points for various activities in the game and rise in level as they earn experience points. At level five, the player is able to battle at a Pokemon gym and join one of three teams (Team Valor, Team Instinct and Team Mystic). If a player enters a Pokemon Go gym that is controlled by a player that is not part of their team, they can challenge the leader to lower the gyms prestige. Once the prestige of a gym is lowered to zero then the player will take control of the gym and is able to deposit one Pokemon to defend it. Also, a team can upgrade the prestige of a gym under their control by battling the gym leader.

We hope that you will now, "not" stand as a dumbo when your friends discuss about Pokemon Go.

Some say he’s half man half fish, others say he’s more of a seventy/thirty split. Either way he’s a fishy bastard.

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