Since my daughter insisted on getting involved in Pokemon Go, I felt an obligation — as a father, and a cold-turkey-quitting Ingress player — to sign up, too. Then my wife joined the team, and we are already off to the races.
It got particularly amusing last evening, as we joined Mary and Stan up at CU Boulder to attend one of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival plays. Like all campuses, it's full of Ingress portals repurposed as stores, gyms, etc., so we had a lot of fun (along with Stan, much to Mary's bemusement) wandering the CU area and harvesting all sorts of goodness.
This included walking past a cluster of four or five Pokestores, a ton of lures dropped there, with about 50-100 kids sitting around on the grass enjoying the evening and each other's company farming like mad.
It's a hot enough game at the moment that we're seeing people wandering around the neighborhood here playing (there are a couple of gyms in close proximity to the house, and a store not far away). It's … amusing.
(Quick impression comparison to Ingress: on the one hand, it feels like a more friendly game; there's a certain degree of conflict (at the gyms, presently) and a certain degree of squickiness (capturing wild animals inside of little balls and using them to fight on your behalf), but it feels at the moment more free-wheeling and less crunchy-intense.)
For the record, we've joined Team Mystic (blue), largely because some of the folk I know online were, so why not.
Back in the day, the building where I will be working was surrounded by high-level Ingress portals; it will be interesting to see how that all translates out to P'Go, once I actually report into the office.
Pokémon Go is out now on Android and iOS
Currently only in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, but there’s an Android workaround.
Also, purely by coincidence, I'm about to start taking the LTR into downtown on a daily basis again … and it's been confirmed to me that there's plenty of P'Go goodness at the train stations …
I've also taken on the mantle of community leader, once more, creating a G+ community for all Colorado trainers, regardless of faction. We've set up private Slack channels for team-specific chat. Interested?
https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/112587912553849194115
Right now we're working on filling up a map full of stops and gyms for new trainers to use as a guide. ^_^