Pokemon GO's Niantik began releasing the mobile app "Pikmin Bloom" (Pikmin Bloom), which was jointly developed with Nintendo.
Pickmin Bloom is a "make Walking Happy" app. It's not a traditional "Piceming" transplant, nor does it reconstruct the original game in the real world like Pokemon GO does, nor does it use the word "game".
So, to say that walking and commuting to school every day is a world view of "walking with incredible biological kimchi" and more enjoyable apps such as discovering, collecting, mapping and other games. In the words I often hear, it is the "gamification" of walking.
The details include: raising seedlings on foot to add kimchi (in short, Pokemon GO's jade fruit); collecting rare species of kimchi; planting flowers while walking and turning them into flower fields on the map (here is "Bloom"); recording daily steps and life records found and reviewed.
Even people who don't play mobile games are easy to start. on the other hand, with the increase of walking, the increase of Pixar, new discoveries, etc., they unwittingly want to move forward / prepare a lot of devices that make people want to walk, which is definitely a game in a broad sense.
The more kimchi you can take with you, the more things you will find, and the number of "users" like the expedition will increase, so the original goal is to cultivate and pull out kimchi blindly.
Low load that is easy to parallelize with Pokemon GO
Hearing that "collect and find" seems to be the second ordeal of Pokemon GO, Pickmin Bloom is characterized by less use of player / user attention resources, when you like it.
Pokemon GO players look at the map, if there is a wanted Pokemon on the spot to pat aimed at throwing the ball and other real-time, now can not open up! Although there is an opportunity to focus on the smartphone, in Pickmin Bloom, basically when walking, Picemin will find and pick up seedlings and fruits, so in the process of moving, no matter whether you take out the phone or use it for something else, you can confirm and receive it at the time you like.
"Bloom" who grows flowers and walks
Another feature is the flowering element that becomes the title. Just walking will leave footprints on your own map, which can be reviewed as a life log, but if you consume the "petals" and "planting flowers" harvested from Pike Ming's head, the map will bloom with colorful flowers that other players can also see.
If you turn on "planting flowers" and walk, you can blossom on the road you usually pass, and you can also use petals of different colors to make decorative flower beds. The more players Pickmin Bloom has, the more flowers the city will be filled with, and the more people walk the path, the more it can be seen as a flower path.
Flower species are not only dazzling, the growth of seedlings in flowerpots is accelerated (eggshells are easy to hatch), the discovery rate of wild vegetables and fruits is increased, and the growth of large plants growing at specific points on the map is also tempted to accelerate.
(the huge flower "big flower" on the map, Pokemon GO corresponds to Pokemon has the key points of Pokemon. At first, it is the state of bud or leaf, and the flowers planted nearby will produce huge flowers because of the mysterious effect of promoting growth. In places where huge flowers bloom, the probability of finding rare fruits and so on increases. Go to the neighborhood because it is open, if you grow up a little bit, it will become a temptation to walk.
In addition, this kind of flower planting, you can also choose the optional "everyone planting flowers" mode. When everyone is planting flowers together, not only flowers, but their own Mii also appear on the map in real time, so they can walk and plant flowers together. Neantick plans to hold this "Community Day", which uses "everyone to grow Flowers" every month.
Pay attention to the flowers. In the case of flowers blooming, such as walking home from the station, if it is a place where there are few other players, you can see an easy-to-understand road from the nearest to your own home.
Although you don't know who planted the flowers on APP, it may be troublesome to meet the conditions such as knowing it's real, playing with Pickamingbloom but not wanting to tell your family's partner.
On the other hand, this kind of "flower planting" can only be started by the player manually, so you don't need to care if you don't use / choose where to use it. In addition, because the flower seed consumes limited resources, even if you forget to cut the flower, it will end within a certain time and distance.
If you accidentally plant flowers where you don't want to stay, you can also delete walking and flower history from settings and life logs.)
Resorts, postcards, life logs, AR
Basically, as long as you repeat "walking, occasionally opening the APP to recycle the seedlings and fruits picked up by wild vegetables, putting them on the seeder, pulling them out and increasing them when you grow up," you can simply enjoy the increase in the number and variety of skin vegetables.
In addition to the above "flower planting", the more enjoyable elements are: Pikemin collects props related to his place of origin, collects his own "deco pimin", collects "postcards" from various places found by pikamine, and sends them to each other with friends, footprints and photos of that day. Add a comment like the "life log" in the mini-diary and then go back and so on.
Of course, you can also take AR photos like Pokemon GO. You can shoot a whole line of game. Because the original kimchi is the visual effect of a small mysterious creature in the shadow of the real terrain, the real sense of size of many kimchi holding fruit and props is unspeakable fun.
There are no individuals who have become Macaron's Pikeming in the video, but for users of the game strategy, collecting "decocamin" will become very hot.
Pickmin Bloom will be officially launched in Singapore and Australia from October 27. It is planned to deploy to other areas within a few days.