Google’s put their April Fools joke live for their mobile alternative reality game live. Ingress players have their cursor turned into Pac-man and portals are now ghosts. This shouldn’t muck up gameplay too much but it’s certainly going to confuse players who forget what day it is.
In Ingress there are two sides who complete for control of portals. The green team (who have portals that now look like green ghosts) are the Enlightened who believe the world can be better. They’re the dreamers, creators and latteral thinkers. The Enlightened are hopeful that the mysterious “Makers Shapers” might be able to help mankind improve itself. The Enlightened’s dreams of a better world are opposed by the Resistance, who are cautious and skeptical (and who now have blue ghost portals). The Resistance are led by a dangerous Artifical Intelligence and are siding with a new alien force, the N’Zeer, who seem to oppose the “Makers”.
I’m not going to dignify this bullshit with a response.
Good 1 Google
There were no BLUE ghosts and only a partial match for green. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(Pac-Man). And your story is wrong… don’t over glorify the enlightened… they are just lemmings going to the light (read flame)
agreed @brettseidell!
brettseidell There are no bursters or resonators in Pac-Man either. It’s almost as if Google’s taken two games and mashed them together into something else.
Umm… You say it is “certainly going to confuse players who forget what day it is.”
Considering it’s only March 31st, maybe it is Google/Niantic who have forgotten what day it is.
And they are not called “makers” but “shapers”.
Cute joke from Niantic, terrible article from geeknative
Since when is ADA dangerous?
Oh, and you forgot to mention the fact that the enlightened are led by a traitor.
BTW we are not over cautious as you seem to suggest, we just value free will more than a hypothetical “enlightenment”…
CharlieShumar Hiya – you’re right about Makers vs Shapers. Fixed! As for the date; Google tends to begin their April Fools jokes just as April Fools starts worldwide. It’s all about timezones.
@Ays388 Hiya – it was just a really quick summary of the very long, complex and quite hard to untangle Ingress plot. That said; I think the threat of ADA has been made clear from the start. Here’s a quote from a good write up over on Quora: “We get to know who sent the lookalike, and had her and Jarvis killed: ADA. Devra, on the other hand, has been protected and allowed to escape by ADA.” http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-story-plot-of-Ingress More recently, ADA/Klue have been speculating whether humans are needed at all Appreciate your invested in the Resistance. It’s quite fun to… Read more »