Creative Gaming
Creative Gaming On July 22, 2017 thousands of trainers gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park for the purpose of catching enough Pokemon during the Pokemon GO Fest so that the first Legendary Pokemon would be revealed that day in Grant Park. The one-year anniversary of Pokemon GO marked the new opportunity to discover and capture a whole new generation of rare and powerful Pokemon. Pokemon GO can be played without cost. Locations around the world host the augmented reality game developed by Niantic. Players, called Trainers, use smart phones as they explore the physical world in order to find and capture creatures in the world of virtual reality. During the first year after its release tens of millions of players participated. “It’s easy to look at Pokemon GO and wonder if the game’s success might underwrite other, less trite or brazenly commercial examples of the genre.” (Bogost). Gaming and gamers have always been some of the