PRESENTED BY ADEBAYO ADEJARE

@bayounchained

Review on Ingress

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Alternate reality

Alien invasions

Hack, attack & triangulate

Warring factions

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PROBLEM

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Many location based/ar games failed to gain traction or were disappointing

• AR Games – no real successful AR game.

SOLUTION

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Many location based/ar games failed to gain traction or are disappointing

• Ingress –worldwide AR MMORPG by Google startup, Niantic Lab. Storyline blends real and actual events and places.

INGRESS TRAILER

GAME

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Blurring lines between gaming and real world

• Two factions -> Players hack and attack portals for their factions -> Link portals -> Establish control fields -> Earn mind units

• Save the world from “Shapers” alien by controlling the world.

TECHNOLOGY

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Smartphone with internet connection, GPS and camera

MARKET

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Gamers, science fiction aficionados, everybody

SIMILARITIES

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Endgame:from Endgame: The calling novel

Shadow Cities: Dead!

No other games

exactly like it … so

far

ENDGAME TRAILER

FACTIONS

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The Enlightened: Shapers will uplift all of mankind. Alien enhancement advocates.

The Resistance: protecting humans from Shapers. Machine enhancement advocates.

ALIENS VS MACHINES

PROJECTIONS

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• Ingress will grow as ar technology grows• AR camera get better on smart phones and wearables i.e. 3d

imaging• Ingress will grow as they figure out a way to have real rewards or

money for achievements and also trade them among each other• Real use for all that data gathered, how else will Niantic

Labs/Google make money?• Never ending plot, ongoing story and local events draw or leave

people out• Future of gaming…mix real and fictional events and places

The GAME WILL GROW

TIMELINE

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• Closed beta release: Nov 15, 2012• Open beta release: Oct 30, 2013• General release: Dec 15, 2013• iOS release: July 14, 2014• Third anomaly chain Helios: July - Sept, 2014• Fourth anomaly chain Darsana: Oct - Dec, 2014• US Airbase Commander bans AR games: Oct, 2014• Next Darsana Anomaly: Nov 15, 2014

SUMMARY

What is Ingress?

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Ingress is a AR MMORPG game by Google’s Niantic lab that allows players to immersive themselves in an alternate world while interacting with the real one. The goal of the game is to help your team by building portals, gain experience and save the world from aliens.

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