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Not only that, Pokemon Go wasn't their first attempt!
It's a re-skinned version of another game called Ingress.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingress_(video_game)
Ingress was actually an amazing game, tbh. I loved it and the community
Yeah, it was fantastic. I've never experienced something as crazy as Ingress: being able to land in a foreign city, open my scanner and announce I just landed, and an hour later I'm at a bar having beers and hacking portals with a bunch of Ingress teammates was just mind blowing.
Also big field ops where we would go backpacking with sat modems... Gooood times.
I remember bumping into people at night omw home from work and sharing chargers to fill up our phones and talking. The first time we covered half of our city was amazing. It was up for like 1,5 days, as well. I don't think i ever played a mobile game that was actually that much fun.
Speaking of it in the past tense, is it abandoned?
apparently it's not :O
Smh my head, Ingress was a copy of a game called Shadow Cities. No one knows that cuz Ingress got a big corporate sponsorship and Shadow Cities eventually went belly up when the 4-person Dev team got bored.