Ingress

The Scientifics have discovered an exotic energy to which the call XMP, whose origin is completely unknown, but which is suspected to have the power of controlling the human minds. Even that the majority of the citizenships are not warned of this situation, on the Earth, have already been created two opposite factions with clear aims regarding how to face this strange and mysterious discovery.

This is the starting point of the so much expected role game by Google which uses the real world as scenery and physical people as players. Forget about imaginary worlds and legendary heroes, in Ingress and the fight for the control of the XMP energy, the sceneries are the ones that you can see through any windows and, the heroes, are like you.

Choose your side: the Illuminati (Enlightenment) has got organized to control this energy and to take advantage of the huge power that this energy could give to them. On the other side, we have the Resistance, who fears that this energy will be the destruction of the humanity and who tries to control it and defend us from the danger that it entails for us.    

The app shows you where are the different portals in different public spaces all over the world, and you can guide yourself with its map base on Google Maps to find the closest energy sources. A green portal is under the control of the Illuminati and, one in blue is in the control of the Resistance. If you see a grey portal, it means that it is not controlled by anyone and, thus, you can claim it as yours by using the objects that you will receive during the game. You can also hack it and win objects for attack, defense and capture of the other portals.    

A triangle link between 3 portals generate a field under which there are a lot of minds controlled. You have to create fields for your faction at the same time that you end with the fields of your rivals.    The strategy and the communication with the rest of the members of your team is essential if you want to win your enemy. To know more about the functioning and the possibilities of    Ingress, read in MilBits this article about the game by Google and its division Niantic Project, in charge of the developing of the game Ingress.

Ingress is still an app in closed beta phase, which means that to play to it, you need to register first and wait that in some time you get the invitation to start organizing    as an agent in the side of the ones you prefer. Later, when the community will be bigger and the developing of the game progresses, it will be open in a more accessible way.

It seems and, above all, coming from Google, that Ingress will be a game of the most amazing, as we have never seen anyone before. You can establish strategic relationships with agents from your neighborhood and international connections with people from other countries. Geolocalization, augmented reality and virtual communities on the Internet in a game at world level in which you will have to go beyond levels, collect objects, attack and defend portals of energy so your team can win the secret war to control a fiction power.