포켓몬 고 게임이 South Canterbury에도..

포켓몬 고 게임에대해서 혹시 들어보셨나요? 요즘 굉장히 핫 하다고 하는 실제 지도와 증강현실을 기반으로 한 게임이라고 합니다.

실제 핸드폰을 들고 지도를 보면서, 포켓몬을 찾는 게임인데, 한국에서는 앱을 받을수는 있지만, 지도구현이 안되기때문에, 

게임을 할수 없다고 하는 기사를 본적이 있습니다. 게임하면, 컴퓨터, 혹은 핸드폰으로만 한다는 것에서, 이제 직접 밖으로 나와서 

움직이면서 여러사람들과 게임을 할수 있다는것에 대해서 큰 점수를 주어야하지 않을까요??? 티마루에도 열풍이어서 캐롤라인베이에 포켓몬 잡으로 다니는 학생들이 꽤 많겠다는 생각을 해보네요. 

이런 열풍에 준섭이가 빠질수 있을까요??ㅎㅎㅎㅎ 

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More than a hundred people will scour Caroline Bay for virtual creatures as a global gaming phenomenon sweeps through South Canterbury.

They will be playing Pokémon Go, a mobile game that uses GPS technology to drop people in a real-time, real-life hunt for little 

creatures - called Pokémon - near landmarks in their area.

The game was released last week and, internationally, is the most used application on the Apple and Android platforms. Analysts predicted the number of daily users could surpass Twitter on Android.

Victoria University student Lilia Alexander has organised Pokemon walks across New Zealand, including one for this Saturday in Timaru.

She expected more than 10,000 people to attend the 22 walks nationwide: more than 160 had registered their interest in the Caroline Bay walk in Timaru.

The Facebook-organised event had also garnered more than 330 people "interested" in the event, she said.

In Timaru, 31-year-old woman Lydia Newlife tried the game after finishing a cleaning job. Soon, she  was far away from her starting destination.

"I was running around catching Pokémons, then when I looked up I was almost in the main street of town," she said.

She had also heard of someone getting into a minor car accident while out looking for Pokémon, she said.  

Roncalli College student Molly Piddington, 17, said almost all of the students in her year were playing the game or making some social comment about it.

Even her 10-year-old sister was playing the game, she said.

The game was a great opportunity to meet new people as "hot spots" in the game were common areas in the town like Caroline Bay.

"I met like ten people [At Caroline Bay] on Sunday when we were out looking," she said.

Piddington had spent about five hours with friends exploring the Timaru area for Pokémon on Sunday, she said.

Alexander said police in each area would be contacted to inform officers not to be alarmed at the potential mass crowd of people walking together.

The game encouraged interaction and exploration but people were advised not to venture into areas they did not know, or go out alone at night, she said.

The Pokémon video game franchise began 20 years ago with the first release of Pokémon: Red and Green on the Nintendo Game Boy hand held device in 1996.

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