[J.] At some time during our travels we discovered Ingress. Ingress is a reality multiplayer online location-based game, that one can play using an android device featuring location detection while having internet access. Players act as agents for either one of the two teams: the Enlightened or the Resistance. There is a lot of online information available about this game (just google it), but the basic idea is to capture and hold 'portals'. Portals are linked to real-life locations, which are generally buildings or art/sculptures.
Although the overall difficulty of this game is fairly easy, it has some sort of addictiveness to it. One ends up chasing one portal after the other, gaining more and more action points which ultimately levels an agent up, gaining access to more powerful items to be utilised during the game. And whenever someone has some time on its hands or is walking or driving around using public transport, it simply kills time. If you are really into it, it also gets you out into fresh air, when you have to defend your portals, link them or capture enemy portals.
I figured it to be a nice way to discover the neighbourhood of where ever we are staying for longer than just a few days. While hacking/capturing those portals that are close-by, I walk along streets I otherwise would not walk along and sometimes discover lovely stores, restaurants or just a pretty place I would have missed otherwise.
So, watch out for agent Dr Freiluft, part of the Enlightened fraction! :)
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| Husband playing Ingress in Taiwan showing the typical body posture |
I figured it to be a nice way to discover the neighbourhood of where ever we are staying for longer than just a few days. While hacking/capturing those portals that are close-by, I walk along streets I otherwise would not walk along and sometimes discover lovely stores, restaurants or just a pretty place I would have missed otherwise.
So, watch out for agent Dr Freiluft, part of the Enlightened fraction! :)
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