How I Logged 23km Today

Today I spent three hours playing a video game, and I had a great time during those hours. I walked between landmarks and art pieces, and even stepped into a shop to pick up my favourite incense. All of this took place not in some cyber world of online gaming, but in the world we all live in.

The game I was playing is called Ingress, a location based alternative reality game (ARG). Created by a Google startup lab of Google called Niantic Laboratories this project led by John Hanke is the start of a new type of gaming. The objective of the game is to control portals in the "real" world for one of two factions, the Resistance and the Enlightened. Typical portal candidates are public works of art and places of commune, but there is a wide range of accepted portals.

After three hours of walking up and down King St, I was able to capture most of the portals in Spruce Grove for the Enlightened. I plan to take over a few remaining portals tomorrow and reinforce the links I created between them.

this morning

this afternoon

Today I found the clay in my forge still a bit to wet to fire yet, but I did take the pictures that Mr. Smid asked me to take.

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