Pokémon GO Writer’s Statement After the sudden craze of Pokémon GO, I thought that many people would be confused about what the game is and why it is so popular. My grandma had recently been asking how the game works as she has noticed large groups of people all in one place staring down at their phones, on her daily walk in Semaphore. I decided it would be best to explain the app in a letter to Grandma as I would be able to explain the fine details. As my grandma likes learning about new things and enjoys a few computer games, I thought that she would like it if I went into detail about the game as there would perhaps be a chance that she would want to play. Using a factual tone throughout my informative letter helped my Grandma understand
New apps on the mobile phones are taking a much more influential participation in our lives with the introduction of augmented reality. It changes the perception of our awareness of the surrounding through augmentations on our mobile phones. This comic explores the recent popular app ‘Pokémon Go’ in the ways that it affects our everyday lives, through a simple family outing portrayed by the protagonist Lucy. The comic starts with both Lucy and her mother in the setting of a beach. The contrast can already be seen where Lucy is holding and focused on her mobile, while her mother is empty handed. Lucy is so attached to her phone that she forgets her surroundings and walks into a pole. This shows the over attachment to the augmented reality that
In Mitch Albom’s article, “Pokémon Go, Draymond Green Prove Smartphones Not So Smart,” he denounces the use of smartphones to take inappropriate photos and the younger generation who play on an app called ‘Pokémon Go’ (1). Albom scrutinizes a former Michigan State basketball player named Draymond Green, who accidentally uploaded a photo of his nether regions to a popular phone application called Snapchat, that lets users send photos to friends privately or for the public to see (1). Not only Green, but the players of the game Pokémon Go, who feel that the game is a way to explore and socialize with others prove to be an issue to Albom, stating that they shouldn’t be looking at their screens if they want to get off the couch (2). Both Green
From the mind of an avid arcade game fanatic arose “one of the most popular children’s entertainment properties in the world,” (Poke, 2014, ca.). In 1996 emerged this property and still to this day continues to live up to its name as one of the most popular children’s on Earth; not only for those of the adolescence of today, but most especially those of the mid-late eighties and nineties who grew up to love and appreciate it from the beginning. Pokémon – as it is widely known around the world as – was created Satoshi Tajiri of Japan and is precisely the game being discussed. Nintendo, the world’s largest video game company based on income, owns the rights to this game. Being present day, this game has already reached its sixth ‘generation’ of the game as they are known as. Essentially, every time a new generation of the game comes out, they are seen to always come in pairs; one game brings the player upon one path with specific quests or guidelines to play by, while the other brings them through another, much similar, path with slight changes to the storyline. For example: in one of Pokémon’s generations there are two games known as sapphire and ruby. The main distinctions between the two are the specific Pokémon that can be captured in one game that cannot be captured in the other. To clarify, the title Pokémon takes on a sort of animal kingdom in the world of the game itself. Pokémon are much similar to realistic animals except for their supernatural, abilities or powers that they possess. Within the Pokémon world, they pretty much take place of real life animals. In addition, to clarify ‘captured,’ these animals can be interacted with in game and essentially captured and sucked into these very small spherical containers known a...
Meeting new people is inevitable due to the amount of players who are on each team. Age doesn't matter when it comes to this augmented reality game due to the fact that Pokemon has been out since 1990. Pokemon Go lets you explore new places you might never have been aware of. In Pokemon Go, real world monuments, statues, historical markers, and art installations are considered PokeStops.
It is fall 1999 and a jet from Japan has just pulled up to its berth at LAX airport in Los Angeles. Immediately a crowd of kids excitedly gathers by the window to view what appears to be a huge flying Pikachu: the yellowy cute, electrically charged mouse-type pocket monster of what was then the biggest kid’s craze of the decade, Pokemon. Even parents recognize this iconic figure, familiar as they are with the basics of the phenomenon. Starting out as a gameboy game in Japan in 1996, it grew quickly to a multi-stranded empire: comic books, cartoon, movies, trading cards, toy figures, video games, tie-in merchandise. And, starting in 1997, Pokemon got exported, hitting the U.S. in August 1998. The principle of the game, duplicated in the plotline of the movies, cartoons, and comics, is to become a pokemon master by trying to capture all 151 monsters (expanded to 251 in recent editions) inhabiting the playscapes of Poke-world. In this world, any child can become a master like Satoshi (Ash in English) who, in the story versions, is the 11 year old protagonist traveling the world with his two buddies, Misty (an 11 year old girl) and Brock (a 15 year old teenage boy).
Pokémon Go has brought users happiness and adventure to their lives, creating memories that have lasting effects on people’s lives. This app users have been determined to find all the Pokémon and the Pokémon stops, thus having less couch potatoes. Pokémon users are more active than they ever have been. When is having too much fun with Pokémon too much? When users of
As this Pokémon generation grows up, they bring experiences from Pokémon into their social lives. Specific effects of Pokémon are hard to pinpoint, but the promoting of interaction among peers has given video games a much better reputation. Parents need to learn about the new ways their kids are learning and processing information. Much of this is done through video games and social networking in this technology-saturated world (Ito, 2010).
The previous week they had performed the spell successfully. After contacting Mordred, Merlin and Morgana had arranged to meet him and Aglain, the leader of the druid camp, in the woods near a small waterfall, halfway between Camelot and the grave of Gorlois. Morgana always went on her annual pilgrimage to her father's tomb at this time of the year, at the end of spring.
“Men, for many of you, today is your first day training as a Knight of Camelot,” said Prince Arthur to the group standing before him. “And be grateful you’re not stuck in a torrential downpour as I was on my first day of training here on this very field. The sun is shining and I plan to work you hard.”
“…in the next few years, humanity's going to go through a shift… We're going to start putting an entire layer of digital information on the real world” (Gribetz, 2016). In his recent TED Talk,” Meron Gribetz encourages his audience to consider how such technology could transform the reality that we call the human experience by referencing augmented reality (Gribetz, 2016). Until the summer of 2016, augmented reality did not have a recognizable role in our lives. Then, came Pokémon Go, a game that gave many people their first notable, combined experiences of augmented reality and telepresence on their smartphones.
Pokémon Go is a way for businesses to get more people into their stores by dropping lure modules which are something in the game that is used to lure wild Pokémon to a certain poke-stop which in return gets payers to go because they want to catch as many Pokémon as they can. It is used by the local animal shelters to recruit potential volunteers, business also give out discounts to players of Pokémon Go, for example red robin gives people three dollars off your meal if you show your waiter your Pokédex. A Pokédex is a player’s Pokémon encyclopedia where they catalog every Pokémon that they have encountered and caught while playing Pokémon Go. People want to be the best Pokémon master so they think of ingénues ways of getting an edge on their competition it is making people think out of the box which is always a good thing sure it may lead to people doing some less than safe things but it is making people think.
As I walked down the street I noticed multiple interesting qualities of the buildings that surrounded me; each individual building came to a point with little windows at the top, equipped with slanted roofs that were covered in the perfect amount of snow. As I passed a large red wagon that read, "BUTTERBEER" I knew exactly where I was; "The Wizarding World of Harry Potter." This was a place I had always longed to visit and had much anticipated the magic within it 's perimeter. After I tried butterbeer, a favorite drink of the characters in the Harry Potter series, I spun around in surprise to see the Hogwarts Express steaming in all of it 's glory. Words cannot describe how thrilling it is to actually be in the shoes of a character, seeing
The delicious smells of fresh Italian foods waft through the air as we look over our menus,
Karen and I would always go play in the wood. It was hurricane season and a big hurricane came by and knocked all the trees down. Being kids we had a big imagination and the trees that fell were out houses, cars, and shopping centers. All the kids in the neighborhood would come by and play as well. We would travel two miles a day just to get to the secret location of the fallen trees. Karen and I were best friends and did everything tighter. We would walk to school, skip school, and even go shopping with each other’s parent. We were so close that people thought we were in a relationship. Playing in the woods was something that we liked to do. It was a way to let our imagination run wild and be free. Karen always thought she was on the runway,
There were once three friends Luke, Adam, and Eli. They were running for their lives from alien soldiers. They had only some food, water and a knife each. “Runnnnn they're gaining on us!” yelled Luke who was at the front. After they lost them they stopped to rest. They were in the forest of pyrex. They knew they had to get to hi valley for it was the only safe place in all the world. They were close to the place thought they just had to avoid many soldiers and bullets and then it would be a straight shot to the valley. Eli pointed to a map and said “It might be a few day stretch from here.” “But” interrupted Adam “There are soldiers everywhere that will shoot you on the spot,” luke said “We should go this way through the Spirit forest because, there is no way any soldier would go through it.” even though the voyage would take longer it was the safest way.