Quick hits: December 2021

Pikmin Bloom, the new augmented reality game from the creators of pokémon go

Currently only available in Australia and Singapore, the launch of the title will be gradual around the world and can be played on Android and iPhone. ‘We experimented with a variety of different types of gameplay and different characters with Nintendo - said during the meeting in streaming with the press the number one Niantic, John Hanke - and after thinking about it we chose Pikmin as the ideal vehicle to express what we can express’. The name and the game mode in some ways very similar to Pokémon Go should not be misleading because the approach to the world and the mixture of real and virtual is completely different. Also in Pikmin Bloom you have to go outdoors, walk and explore 1.0 landscapes, observing and interacting with what appears on the display, but you lose the purely ‘competitive’ part of the 2016 sensation game: you don’t have to fight or evolve creatures. In Pikmin the most important values ​are harmony and organization.

For those unfamiliar with them, the Pikmin are in fact colorful, sentient and social beings created by Super Mario’s father, Shigeru Miyamoto, who was inspired by the world of plants, diversifying them by colors, each with certain abilities. In the games

Facebook experiments with paid subgroups

The company announced a number of updates to groups during its streaming Communities Summit, including the ability to create subgroups for specific topics and make them pay for them. Members of these sub-communities could thus access exclusive content and experiences. Facebook suggests the feature could be used for things like coaching, networking or other ‘deeper conversations’.

For creators, it would be another way to monetize their presence on the released for 20 years now, you interacted with the Pikmin to solve mini-games or for basic real-time strategy titles, but in Pikmin Bloom the focus shifts to collecting and collecting creatures and above all taking care of them by walking through the roads of the world surrounded by this colorful and dynamic cloud. To encourage physical activity, it will take a number of steps to grow the seeds stored inside the inevitable backpack.