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What they need to do is make the 'hunting' system more 4th dimensional. If you 'hear' a Pokemon near by (maybe you don't know what it is, just that you haven't
by mjevans 10y ago
What they need to do is make the 'hunting' system more 4th dimensional.
If you 'hear' a Pokemon near by (maybe you don't know what it is, just that you haven't seen it before), you also know a vague direction it's in; maybe not distance but direction.
That should stay on your map.
You move to a different location so you can triangulate it.
You hear it again and another slice lays on your map.
You investigate, but it's taken too long to get there. All you find are some footprints. (location saved to client device)
Later that day, or another day, the same noise is heard near that area, the client shows the pie slice again, but also loads the local markers within it.
You go to investigate the marker and see (maybe even capture) the Pokemon you'd been hunting.
- cableshaft 10y agoYou need to be hired by Niantic, stat. That's brilliant.
- philtar 10y agoGuarantee you've never made a game in your life.
- daveguy 10y agoImplementation of this feature wouldn't require much in terms of processing power or storage. It would just be a more interesting and engaging way of getting to pokemon beyond the current "click it on an overhead". Game programmers and designers could definitely work with this description to make a feature.
- philtar 10y agoSure. But it's not fun. Which is way more important than any of the things you mentioned. The first thing a game designer thinks of is fun, not system limitations.
- mjevans 10y agoWhat's not fun is the presently 'mapless' version of Pokemon GO we all have access to. Sure I can see if I am near a Pokemon, but I can't actually go after most of them due to GPS jitter and the time it takes to walk/cross at lights in cities. If I absolutely knew which direction to go there is a CHANCE I could get to a Pokemon before it despawns. As things stand now I pretty much have to win a small lottery to capture one where I happen to be taking a scenic walk.
- philtar 10y agoI am not talking about the current version about pokemon go. I am talking about the version suggested by the commenter above.
- cableshaft 10y agoThat's pretty funny, as I've actually worked on close to 20 released games now, for several different companies and independently. If you mean they wouldn't hire him just for having ideas, then that's generally true, although I have seen someone hired as a consultant to design the economy of a game since he was a self-described 'free to play economy expert' with several articles posted on gamasutra (yeah, there was all sorts of problems with that project). I was mostly just affirming that I thought his idea was a good one, not that I actually thought Niantic would hire him based on a forum post. EDIT: Apparently you think the feature is not fun, well I think the rules for GPS games are not necessarily the same as static games, and the hunt and exploration and tracking could actually be fun when your movement actually matters. And it's a lot better than "you might get these pokemon if you run around in circles for the next ten minutes and get lucky!" that currently exists right now, which is shit and very unfun.
- riskable 10y agoOr how about actually using the augmented reality (AR) portion of the game in a way that isn't just a gimmick: Make it so I can pan around my area with the camera to see where the Pokémon are (or at least provide a "rustling leaves" styled hint if you're looking in that direction). That'd be a great use of AR and would make the game more fun than staring down at a map all day.