xlsm
Snow White
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- Oct 19, 2013
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Soo...it's incredibly addictive. It's an app in the apple store and the google play store. It's "augmented reality", and puts the different pokemon in the real world. It uses your gps and camera to make it look like pokemon are around you. It shows a map screen with your avatar person, and your phone will vibrate if a Pokemon is in catching range, you touch it and it opens the camera making it look like the Pokemon is in front of you in the "real world", then you swipe your finger on the screen to throw the pokeball to catch the pokemon. Not every throw will be a catch, sometimes they're hard to get!
Local places like churches, trails, schools, etc... operate as Pokestops or gyms - you can get items there or battle at the gyms if you're level 5 or above. You get leveled up by catching more Pokemon and getting experience points. If you get eggs at the pokestops, you click them to incubate, and then you have to walk a certain number of steps to hatch it. I have one right now that requires you to walk 2 kilometers to hatch, my kids each have a 5K egg.
It's a fun idea, and we went out to get sno cones tonight and stopped a couple of times on the way there...saw lots of people walking around aimlessly at the trail head by our house (it's a PokeStop) with their phones out, searching, LOL!! It's actually a good way to get people out of the house and moving! I figure I'll get all my steps in on my fitbit this weekend because the kids want to go "hunting".
