Ingress Genius Curtosy of Google

As some people may or may not be aware Google has made a game. Actually that is extremely vague and nonspecific. Specifically they have made an Augmented Reality Massive Multi-player Online (armmo). This game is called Ingress and as of late I find myself quite engrossed with playing this game. First off though you cannot sit at home and play this game. It is locational, meaning you have to travel to different landmarks around you're area and such to play the game. The premise is there are 2 opposing sides the Resistance and Enlightened. In this game both sides are fighting for control of a mysterious energy called exotic matter (XM), but with polar opposite intentions for it. But I could go on for this entire post detailing it. Instead I will just say if this interests you any Google "Ingress" and you will find out all the information that is necessary up until this point in time for it. Which leads me to my point of why I think this game is truly genius. If you recall I stated you are able to find the Ingress story up until this point. This is not a typo because there is only a partially set. As it goes the story can bend any way toward any side currently as of me writing this the Resistance is areas are ahead. As I have said before it can go either way, recently there was a global live event that was taken by the resistance but it could have gone the other way completely. That is what I like about a game like this there is a back story to it but that is about it but that is that. I like that there is a constantly unfolding story that once you get into are stuck to it like glue.

I mean even now there is an upcoming event that can go any way, No one knows the exact story. To me this looks like a giant leap of faith when nantic@google launched this in closed beta in 2012 and finally in 2013 this could have easily been another flunk but with the massive following this has gained (its global I mean at an event in California there were people from literally everywhere except Antarctica) it was anything but that. I think this game is genius because its new, yes there are other AR games but they aren't on the global scale Ingress has or really any like ingress for the matter. It encourages people to come together and go places. It is a social network while encouraging you to get out and play a strategy game all in the same app. I know since I  seriously started it my Google plus page (yes I will use it) has been getting tons of followers thanks to it. But that's besides the point. This is truly genus and we have never seen anything like it. And guess what? This is only going to keep getting bigger.