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Pokémon GO

Location-based capture loop brought a console franchise to mass mobile audiences.

Released 2016 Developer Niantic Platform iOS Genre Augmented Reality Era Live service & the long tail

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Pokémon GO inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Free-to-Play Service Model 2003Direct Touch Manipulation 2005Mobile Free-to-Play 2012Live-Service Seasonal Content 2014

Descends from

Ingress 2013

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