
Championship Points are used to gain entry into high-level events, including the annual Pokémon World Championships. “Championship Points are awarded to players based on their finish position or placement at individual events. Now this isn’t related to GO (yet?), but check out the first paragraph from the webpage: A quick search on Google lead me to a page on the Pokemon website mentioning “Champion Points”. So far I’ve seen “Crystal Points” (more on that below) and “Capture Points” mentioned, but I have another for you. There is some speculation on Reddit as to what this means. Shortly after the wild Ivysaur appears, we see “CP 535” next to it. Though some folks are drinking their Hatorade over it, I think its neat Niantic is exploring other parts of augmented reality gaming. When it is battle time, it switched from the 3D game to the trainers phone camera, showing the real world with a 3D Pokemon overlaid onto it. This is the first time we see actual Ingress data used in Pokemon GO, and just confirms the speculation that Ingress portal data will be used for Forts/locations.

Nathan VanGraafeiland was kind enough to link the Ingress portal that matches the picture seen here exactly. Money says this is a portal in Ingress as well (likely where most Fort and other location data will come from). Unsure of what this could be, other than perhaps Pokemon that the trainer is currently carrying (guess she is farming them or something).Īnother shot from shows a rotating picture for Lotta’s Fountain, which I venture to guess is a Fort. In this shot though, it looks like three Ivysaur icons. I didn’t mention the bottom left area of the GUI in the other shots because I couldn’t make out what they were.
You’ll get notified that you’ve encountered a Pokemon, and you can capture it with your Poke ball, so you toss Poke balls to capture it. This encounter I’m gonna show you is also the first time this has been shown. They live in the places they ought to live, which means that you will have to go to a wide variety of places to find them all. Pokemon have different habitats, so some Pokemon like water, some like mountains. “They’re distributed all around the world. Transcription of footage (as best I could): Reddit saved the day again and posted a picture of John Hanke with a clip from the above footage that surfaced. Skeptical on the authenticity of this, I started asking around but couldn’t get a solid answer as to if this was actually legit or not.

John Hanke surprised us just a day ago announcing he was doing a panel at SXSW titled “The Future of AR Is Already in Your Pocket”.Ī video on reddit emerged today, capturing what claimed to be footage of Pokemon GO at the SXSW panel. Sorry GDC, looks like SXSW gets the big first look at Pokemon GO gameplay.
