Nothing really much to say to be honest, apart from some stuff like Pokemon Go. Might as well write about it while I’m taking a breather between website development projects.
I’ve been looking into that game and for the fans of the Pokemon franchise, it works. It helps people who are big fans of the games or even the show to get outside and walk around catching the pocket monsters.
Without putting my hand into the beehive, I’ll just say that some people lack the knowledge to even read the warning that appears on the game loading screen – Be aware of your surroundings. Yet we have people being silly, running into traffic to catch a Eevee. Or even worse, people using the AR mode (where it puts a feed of your device’s camera as the battle background) in places like toliets and well… places where the camera should be disabled.
Maybe there’s a funeral on and suddenly people nearby scream out “I GOTTA CATCH THAT PIKACHU!!!” and upset the whole funeral setup. Not only is it inconsiderate but it puts not only yourself in danger but others as well.
While I have caught a few Pokemon myself and am about to level up to Level 5 so I can try my hand at a Gym Battle, I’ve lost a majority of interest in the game. I played the Red/Blue/Yellow, Gold/Silver/Crystal, Ruby, LeafGreen and the Nintendo DS rehashes of G/S/C and after throwing so many Pokeballs I just got tired of it. It’s just not my cup of tea anymore.
I still enjoy watching how much glitch abuse Pokemon Red/Blue/Yellow gets, that game is full of coding bugs but yet talented people actually can use a glitch to fix another glitch, or even write completely new maps and such. Want to play Pong in the GBA generation of Pokemon games? Sure, with ACE exploits (which runs custom code from console/cartridge work RAM) you can.
As a hobbyist game developer I look at the flaws that Pokemon R/B/Y has, how they are exploited and just be amazed at how the game was programmed and how talented hackers can make stop the game from crashing or battle trainers that exist in the game but are unused… or even implement their own “glitch trainer” with working Pokemon that don’t crash the game.
But for now, I’m hanging up the PokeGear and going back to Ingress. Pokemon Go is just a new fad and given the amount of server downtime, I just don’t enjoy it.