Location-based game
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A location-based game is a type of game in which the gameplay evolves and progresses via a player's real world location. Location-based games must provide some mechanism to allow the player to report
A PokéStop at Aeon Town Higashi-Osaka, an example of a real-world marking for the location-based game Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go
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Pokémon Go is a 2016 augmented reality mobile game originally developed and published by Niantic and since 2025 by Scopely Explore, in partnership with Nintendo and the Pokémon Company, for iOS and An
Location-based game
…a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers. In contrast, games such as Pokémon Go are fully contained in digital devices with very little to no interaction or effect on the physical world. Some location-based games that are video…
John Hanke, the founder of Niantic
The Pokémon Go Plus, shown with its wrist strap
PokéStop in Alameda Central, Mexico City.
Players gathering around a "Gym" in a park in Brest, France.