Shown in the game only as silhouettes to this point, here is the final artwork for the three team leaders in Pokémon Go.
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So there you have it: Candela is in charge of Team Valor (red), Blanche is captain of Team Mystic (blue) and Spark is the leader of Team Instinct (yellow).
Pokemon GO is an augmented reality game, whereby players must locate a Pokemon on the map and travel to its location.
The game was released in stages across the world for a number of reasons, including how the Pokemon GO servers appeared to unable to cope with the massive take up of the service and also how the game attracted the attention of various hacker groups.
Battling and trading are two obvious advancements that could be made to the game, though they’ll be coming a little later as right now Niantic said it was focused on improving stability, up time and player enjoyment – preventing gyms being poached after being newly unlocked for example.
Hanke previously confirmed that Pokemon Go would eventually get the trading feature, calling it a “core element” to the game.
As a result. players have been downloading the APK version of Pokemon GO but at the risk of crashing one’s smartphone operating system.
Hanke also mentioned that more Pokemon characters could appear in the future, expanding beyond the set of original Pokemon that are in the game, and that there are still hidden features in the game to be discovered.
For that time being, Pokemon GO was not available in most parts of the world.
Hanke said that only one tenth of the team’s ideas when the app first started development are now in the game.
With the goal of building mobile apps and games that encouraged “adventures on foot with others”, Hanke named Niantic after a grounded whaling vessel grounded during the San Francisco Gold Rush of 1849 and converted to a storage building. We would expect to see further moves like this in other territories.
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Getting to Pokestops, catching different Pokemon and hatching the Poke eggs requires lots of walking.
