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Founder of "Pokemon GO" response game related hot questions

2025-01-27 09:29:36|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

On Thursday afternoon, I was in the office of Niantic Labs. The company's CEO John Hanke was on me, sitting opposite the conference table.After taking some time to accept our interviews.During this time, he released "Pokemon GO" in Japan, where he was born in "Pokemon", and his company once again stood at the mouth of the wind.

When you launch such a popular game, I am afraid it is difficult to have any other rest time. "Pokemon GO" completely subverts Hanke's life.He spent ten days and stayed in Japan to prepare the game's starting game, surrounded by people who played this game.The upsurge caused by this game is so crazy that Niantic has to take their names from the building where the San Francisco office is located to prevent enthusiasts from swarming to find rare elf.

This man who had helped build Google Maps said that he never thought that what he created would have such a big response, I am afraid that he would not be in the future.

Q: Did you grow up computer games?What is the first game to play?

A: I grew up in the era of 8 -bit machine in home computers. The first game I was paid was "Climber" from 1983 on the Yadali family computer. This game was sold to a magazine.

It seems that in my 7th grade, our school has a TRS-80 mathematical computer.I often watched "Star Trek" of the high -grade people playing ascii pictures next to it. After that, I was addicted to it and spent countless hours in the computer room to play games and programming.A few years later, I bought a ATARI 400 and a tape recorder by the $ 500 of the lawn to save my written program.

After I grew up, I started watching the "Byte" magazine and read the stories about Steve Jobs, Steve Woz, and all the persons who invented personal computers in California.Their deeds are like a distant and strange field I have never been involved in me -a thing that is almost impossible to participate, but I want to do so much.

Q: How did you finally come to Keyhole?I heard from a game company?

It was a company named Intrinsic Graphics. Its creations were all from Silicon Graphics (SGI) ... At first they wanted to build a game development platform, which was their initial direction.Then things changed a little bit. The demonstration version of the demonstration was a bit like the SGI side: sticking satellite map materials on a rotating earth.At that time, a visualization system that SGI spent millions of dollars was spent at the trade exhibition.This kind of shocking stuff is called the "space-ground" system. The space perspective on the virtual earth can switch to high-resolution satellite images by zooming.

They began to try to reproduce this technology on personal computers, which is what we see now.The demonstration version has high and low -resolution images, which looks cool.You can raise funds from investors through this demonstration, but it is useless for the company.So this business was split out.(Hank finally became the company's CEO.)

Q: After I heard that Keyhole, how did Google decide to buy it?

A: Google bought a company called Picasa and an early image sharing website.When they discussed the acquisition of Picasa.Sergei Brin (co -founder of Google) is scouring on Keyhole. He likes to point out and eavesdrop on our conversation on the map, and then says ‘Where is your house?Check out the map!‘This is the style of Brin, and I always like to mess with me.

Later, we met Eric Schmidt, and then talked to Larry Page and Brin.At that time, we didn't know what Google was doing, we only knew that it was about to go public ... At that time, there were rumors that they were first -rate, with masseur and great cafeteria.Our response is ‘What kind of ghost?‘Facts prove that rumors are true.

Q: So you have come to Google and stayed there for several years to lead the Google Geographical Team. I heard that you have pushed the Google Map to the original iPhone.

A: Okay, at that time I was staying at the living room at home and then received an email from Jobs. He said, ‘Can I call you?‘I thought someone was doing a prank and told my wife about it.But in case I will return the email, ‘Of course, do it tomorrow morning.’The next day Jobs really called. He was still concealed by the existence of the iPhone at the time.‘ You may have heard what we are doing, ’we started negotiation with Apple.I remember the application was launched in January. We started working in September or October in the previous year, and it was very difficult to work.Q: Then you founded Niantic, why do you want to start a company like this?

The game is a consideration, but this is not the point.Establishing NianTIC's comprehensive consideration based on social, exploration, mobile, and maps.We don't know what we wanted to do at the time, but we wanted to explore in some extensive fields.Our first project was "Field Trip", and we collected some data through it.(Note: "Travel Assistant" is an enlightenment reality application. This application can provide various information about your location, such as the history of the park, the ins and outs of the famous buildings, and the review of nearby restaurants.).).

Then I made a game prototype and wrote it out. This was the first time I wrote a code carefully.The name of this game is "Battle for San Francisco", which is very rough, but the process of writing code is very interesting.

I added Mountain View City and San Francisco in this game. Some people fought for the former and others worked for San Francisco. They could attack local territory separately.At that time, in 2011, we saw some basic fun points.After a brainstorm and an unsuccessful attempt ... "Ingress" formed.

Q: Will there be no "Ingress", will "Pokemon GO" be made?

A: God knows.The assumptions behind this problem ignore some factual foundations.However, after being updated through "Ingress" for so long, content and data construction, we know which are suitable for use on Pokemon GO and which are not suitable.If you make "Pokemon GO" without any experience, I don't know if people will like this game."Pokemon GO" is built based on "Ingress".

This consideration has some considerations based on the niche market. The production of science fiction games needs to be thoughtfully set.We think this is the first time that we have opened the situation in a niche market and a new game type. Compared with trying to attract more wide players and try to be as low as possible, the application we produce is made for moderate core players.Because we think that such players are more tolerant and easy to accept an imperfect product, and they are often early practitioners of new technologies.

Q: How do you contact the Pokemon company?

A: April Fool's Day jokes came true, and later we started talks in Tokyo.

Ishihara Henghe (CEO of Pokemon Company) came into contact with "Ingress". When I talk to him, his Ingress level is even higher than me.They just a little aware of it. I did not vigorously sell this project. I just explained this concept. After that, they came to the mountains several times.

In "Ingress", I have level 10 and Ishihara 11.

We are all very interested in this project, and we have a good opportunity to turn "Pokemon" into reality, regardless of whether it is a April Fool's Day joke.

Q: How many levels have you been in "Pokemon GO"?

A: I didn't have much time to play when the game was listed, about 5 levels.I stayed in Japan for 10 days when the game was listed in the United States. Because of the lock area, I couldn't even play at that time.(Hank has a high level in the beta test, but the level is cleared after the game was officially launched.)

My children are very high, the small one is about 12 or 14.The three children at home and their mother are playing this game.My wife likes "Pokemon GO" and I am afraid that all mothers will like it, because children will go out and go to the park.

Q: I know you helped Google to release a Google Map. Then have you seen any other similar examples?

A: You did not see its impact on the real world.I feel that the first time I feel that this change is that after we launching "Ingress", when I went out for lunch, I heard the sound effect of this game.This is great, especially when you see your products that make people go outdoors, can you understand?I asked some questions about playing the game, ‘Hey, what are you doing?‘Then I told him that this was what we did.

"Pokemon GO" is another level of phenomenon, but I don't want to touch my head.There are already a large number of negative news about it, and there are some positive news recently.

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